
Nicholas Fearn
Nicholas Fearn is a freelance technology and business journalist from the Welsh Valleys. With a career spanning nearly a decade, he has written for major outlets such as Forbes, Financial Times, The Guardian, The Independent, The Daily Telegraph, Business Insider, and HuffPost, in addition to tech publications like Gizmodo, TechRadar, Computer Weekly, Computing and ITPro.
Nicholas has covered a range of topics, including AI, health tech, cybersecurity, telecoms, IoT, cloud, startups, enterprise IT and consumer tech. He's particularly interested in the entrepreneurs and companies using technology to drive positive change in the world, whether it be social or environmental causes. His passion is unearthing and reporting on the change-makers of tomorrow.
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DeepMind's AI program AlphaFold3 can predict the structure of every protein in the universe — and show how they functionAlphaFold3 uses AI to helps scientists more accurately predict how proteins interact with other biological molecules.
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'Master of deception': Current AI models already have the capacity to expertly manipulate and deceive humansLarge language models (LLMs) have mastered the art of deception when competing with humans in games, but scientists warn these skills can also spill out into other domains.
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MIT gives AI the power to 'reason like humans' by creating hybrid architectureMIT scientists devise three abstraction libraries that can be combined with AI systems to improve their reasoning and contextual awareness in programming, strategic planning and robotics.
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Future quantum computers could use bizarre 'error-free' qubit design built on forgotten research from the 1990sQubits can be made by floating a suspended electron over a pool of liquid helium rather than being embedded them a solid-state crystal — which leads to impurities and errors.
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'White hat hackers' carjacked a Tesla using cheap, legal hardware — exposing major security flaws in the vehicleSecurity researchers used a $169 Flipper Zero device and a Wi-Fi development board to obtain a driver's credentials, break into a Tesla Model 3 and drive away.
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New solar cell technology could ditch batteries in gadgets for good by harvesting ambient room lightSolar cells that can be recharged using indoor low-light could be used to power devices like TV remotes and computer mice.
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Want to ask ChatGPT about your kid's symptoms? Think again — it's right only 17% of the timeThe AI chatbot provided incorrect diagnoses in 72 pediatric cases from a sample of 100 historic cases, while offering diagnoses in a further 11 that were deemed too broad to be correct.
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