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AI web browsers 'aren't ready for the public,' scientists warn as they highlight massive security red flagsBy enhancing the functionality of agentic browsers, they have become insecure and could be sharing personal information.
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Meet Phantom Twist, a stealthy new drone that hides in plain sight by tricking your eyesHigh-speed rotation exploits the concept of motion blur to conceal a new drone while it's in flight.
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Startup's 'oscillator-based' AI technology could be 1,000 times more energy efficient than conventional computingEngineers say an AI image generator built on a new type of physical computing could use far less power than existing stable diffusion-based methods.
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'A dangerous proposition': How AI is warping the social fabric and the ways we collectively imagine the futureExcerpt In this excerpt from "Predicted: How AI Is Restructuring Social Life," author Mona Sloane examines how artificial intelligence is reconfiguring our understanding of the world and how we imagine the future.
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New 3D silicon chip stacks circuits on top of each other to boost computing powerResearchers have found a way to build a three-layered silicon chip without the chip overheating.
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Robot dog can climb stairs, navigate a forest and bound over logs thanks to new, rapid AI training techniqueResearchers used reinforcement learning to train a quadrupedal robot to adapt to different environments using two different pre-learned gaits.
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AI is giving people bad money advice. Here's what I worry about most, as a finance professor.Opinion When managing your money, take a chatbot's ‘confidence’ with a grain of salt
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Does fast charging damage your battery more than regular charging?Life's Little Mysteries From phones to electric vehicles, some batteries take an hour to charge, while others can take up to half a day.
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New sodium metal battery design charges in just 4 minutes and retains its capacity for yearsChinese researchers say they have overcome one of the trickiest problems of battery chemistry by developing a special gel.
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