Monday - June 19 2023, 19:32 UTC - 1 year ago

In 2022, an AI-generated work of art won the Colorado State Fair's art competition, sparking debate about ownership and authorship of AI-generated art. This paper is meant to stimulate conversations and debates on copyright law adapting to generative AI art, and how ownership frameworks can be created to empower creatives while staying true to the spirit of copyright law.

Monday - June 19 2023, 14:26 UTC - 1 year ago

Sarah Kane, a legally blind researcher from the University of Pennsylvania, is using sonification technology to make astronomical data more accessible. Erin Kara and Allyson Bieryla from MIT and Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics, respectively, are also using sonification to represent light around black holes and make solar eclipses accessible for the blind and visually impaired community. The Rubin Observatory in Chile is incorporating sonification into their astronomical data.

Monday - June 19 2023, 09:50 UTC - 1 year ago

A team of researchers is highlighting how artificial intelligence (AI) can redefine social science research. LLMs have already demonstrated their ability to generate realistic survey responses concerning consumer behavior, and can be used to generate novel hypotheses that could then be confirmed in the future. However, AI models cannot be used to study socio-cultural biases as they are often trained to exclude such biases, and clear guidelines for LLM governance is needed for AI-assisted social science research to be successful.

Monday - June 19 2023, 05:40 UTC - 1 year ago

China has been attempting to make the yuan a global force for years, and the war in Ukraine, combined with the US Dollar's appreciation rate in 2022, has only sped up the yuan's rise on the global currency trade market. As of June 2023, China's digital yuan is one of the world's first Central Bank Digital Currencies, and the yuan is the fifth-most-actively used currency for global payments.

Monday - June 19 2023, 00:54 UTC - 1 year ago

This article discusses the progress made in growing mini-brains and the discovery of their unique ability to produce hormones. Scientists from Japan have developed mini-brains that mimic the pituitary gland, the hormone center of the brain, and implanted them into mice. The mini-pituitary was able to pump out hormones for over 24 weeks without any side effects or immune rejection, paving the way for research into potential pituitary regenerative medicine. Additionally, scientists were able to make the mini-pituitary produce a hormone to launch a counterattack to battle immune stress.

Sunday - June 18 2023, 20:01 UTC - 1 year ago

Advanced Micro Devices has released its new MI300X chip, a PCIe-Based accelerator chip manufactured on TSMC's 7nm process, as a way to compete with NVIDIA's Grace Hopper Superchip. AMD CEO Lisa Su demonstrated the new technology at a showcase event in San Francisco on Tuesday. AMD is expecting the chip to be of great interest to big cloud providers such as Amazon or Microsoft. Meanwhile, NVIDIA is already a part of the exclusive club of companies worth more than a trillion dollars thanks to its generative AI acceleration chips.

Sunday - June 18 2023, 14:59 UTC - 1 year ago

Employees experiencing menopausal symptoms are often reluctant to talk about them, because of fear of stigma and hurt their chances at work. However, no federal law requires employers to accommodate menopausal symptoms. This is why a federal law is needed to protect the rights of older women workers experiencing menopausal transitions.

Sunday - June 18 2023, 10:10 UTC - 1 year ago

This article looks at the rise of John D. Rockefeller and Standard Oil. It examines how Rockefeller used vertical and horizontal integration, as well as negotiating discounts and pioneering industrial processes, to become a dominating force in the oil industry. It shows how the Standard Oil model is being replicated by Tesla in their new electric economy, and how new technology has the potential to create new industries.

Sunday - June 18 2023, 05:45 UTC - 1 year ago

RMIT University engineers have created a small device that sees and stores memories in a similar way to humans, significantly reducing energy consumption. It has potential applications such as for bionic vision, autonomous operations in dangerous environments, shelf-life assessments of food and advanced forensics.

Sunday - June 18 2023, 01:37 UTC - 1 year ago

Believer Meats recently started construction on the biggest cultured meat factory in the world and Brazilian meatpacking company JBS announced it is building a commercial-scale cultured meat plant in Spain. Cultured meat has been criticized for its high costs and scalability issues, but it could be a way to stabilize food security and global protein production in the future.

Saturday - June 17 2023, 21:17 UTC - 1 year ago

Researchers at the Lewis Katz School of Medicine at Temple University have found a promising alternative for the treatment of hypertension in the form of an infused juice concentrate of the Japanese plum. In experiments with mice, this concentrate was found to attenuate the growth-promoting signals induced by angiotensin II and significantly improve several parameters of cardiovascular function.

Saturday - June 17 2023, 16:41 UTC - 1 year ago

In 1987, in the Carnegie Mellon University, the self-taught AI model Navlab, started the revolution of synthetic data training. It showed the power of synthetic data to train AI systems. These days, synthetic data is proving useful in addressing issues concerning privacy, facial recognition and bias, by allowing generates huge databases of synthetic faces permissioned by 500 individuals for training AI models.

Saturday - June 17 2023, 11:56 UTC - 1 year ago

Cloud seeding is a form of geoengineering technology that can be used to modify weather patterns. It typically involves releasing chemicals into the air that can act as a scaffold on which water molecules become heavy enough to fall as rain. Various parts of the world, from the US to the UAE, have used cloud seeding over the decades, although proving it works is difficult due to the fact that rain could have fallen regardless. One study showed that it produced enough snow to fill 300 Olympic-size pools compared with clouds that weren’t seeded.

Saturday - June 17 2023, 07:08 UTC - 1 year ago

Archaeologists have discovered stone tools and animal bones in a Welsh cave from the last Ice Age, believed to have been left by some of the earliest Homo sapiens. Scientists are testing new excavation methods and analytical techniques to learn more about this crucial period. The discovery is significant as discoveries of Homo sapiens in the UK are rare and the UK has lagged behind in understanding these first appearances.

Saturday - June 17 2023, 02:45 UTC - 1 year ago

Spiking Neural Networks (SNNs) are brain-inspired computing systems that leverage co-integration of optoelectronic neurons, analog electrical circuits and Mach-Zehnder interferometer meshes to mimic the way real neurons process information. This approach offers potential advantages in performance and speed over traditional neural networks and machine learning systems.

Friday - June 16 2023, 22:41 UTC - 1 year ago

Keisy Plaza, a Venezuelan refugee, encounters software errors and frozen screens when trying to secure an appointment with Customs and Border Protection (CBP) in order to request her family's entry to the US. President Biden has enforced a mobile app, called CBP One, to request an appointment with an immigration official in addition to harsher consequences for those who don't use legal pathways. It is one of the many tools that the government is providing to individuals to seek protection in the United States and secure the border.

Friday - June 16 2023, 17:43 UTC - 1 year ago

Robert Fano challenged his students at Massachusetts Institute of Technology to improve a data compression algorithm but nothing came of it until David Huffman stepped in with a revolutionary new idea: a system of codes with variable code lengths that worked without pauses. The technology is now known as Huffman coding and is still used today, across different types of data compression algorithms.

Friday - June 16 2023, 13:13 UTC - 1 year ago

A new research paper challenges the idea that an unlimited number of trials are needed to learn safe actions in unfamiliar environments. Instead, by managing tradeoffs between optimality, exposure to unsafe events, and detection time, guaranteed safety in machines can be achieved without an infinite number of explorations. This has significant implications for robotics, autonomous systems, and artificial intelligence.

Friday - June 16 2023, 08:37 UTC - 1 year ago

Akshay Suresh, a graduate student at Cornell University, spearheads the Breakthrough Listen Investigation for Periodic Spectral Signals (BLIPSS) — a collaborative project between Cornell University, the SETI Institute, and Breakthrough Listen — to detect repetitive signals from the Milky Way’s core as potential evidence of extraterrestrial life. By focusing on dense star clusters and using a narrow frequency range, BLIPSS amplifies the odds of capturing compelling evidence of extraterrestrial technology.