Communications of the ACM
Multimodal AI Connects the Digital Dots
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Tales of Topological Qubits
Emulating the behavior of exotic quantum states may give quantum computing a better way of squeezing out troublesome noise and errors.
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News Group Says A.I. Chatbots Heavily Rely on News Content
The News Media Alliance, a trade group that represents newspapers, says that A.I. chatbots use news articles significantly more than generic content online.
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Microsoft Repositions 7TB 'Project Silica' Glass Media as Cloud Storage Solution
Microsoft said its Project Silica glass media storage technology can retain roughly 1.75 million songs or about 3,500 movies on a palm-sized glass sheet for 10,000...
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An Exabyte of Disk Storage at CERN
The European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN) in Switzerland has exceeded the 1-exabyte threshold, amassing 1 million terabytes (TB) of disk space.
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Why NASA Is Sending National Secrets to the Moon
NASA will work with startup Lonestar plus the Isle of Man to send a data payload to the Moon next February to assess lunar-based backup storage as part of the Artemis...
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Biomedical Digital Twins
Considering the transformative possibilities of simulated models of biological phenomena and systems at multiple scales.
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The Fight to Repair
How the battle over the right to repair is tipping in favor of consumers.
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Using Psychology to Bolster Cybersecurity
Getting into the minds of attackers to protect the enterprise.
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Private Equity Recruits Data-Science Talent as Industry Tackles Machine Learning
Private equity firms integrating machine learning and data analytics into their investment processes increasingly are turning to data-science experts to interpret...
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Shining a Light on the Dark Web
How the Dark Web continues to operate, and why law enforcement will not shut it down anytime soon.
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Distilling What We Know
Researchers look to cut large GPT models down to size.
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Octopus' Complex Cells Are Key to Their High Intelligence
Researchers explored the octopus's neural makeup that defines its learning processes using automated tissue preparation and new machine learning reconstruction...
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Deep Learning for New Protein Design
Scientists at the University of Washington and Belgium's Ghent University enhanced current energy-based physical models in de novo computational protein design...
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Parenting a Three-Year-Old Robot
An open source AI agent developed by researchers at Carnegie Mellon and Meta AI gives robots manipulation abilities equivalent to those of a three-year-old child...
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Hackers Explore Ways to Misuse AI In Major Security Test
Nearly 2,500 hackers at the DEFCON conference's AI Village spent this past weekend poking and probing some of the most popular large language models for flaws. ...
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Researchers Explore Best Practices for Talking to Kids About Online Privacy
Researchers at NIST suggest good strategies for talking to kids about online privacy and security, from a young age through high school.
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Computer-Assisted Proofs Take on Fluid Flow
Researchers use computers to show that equations can "blow up."
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The Carbon Footprint of Artificial Intelligence
Looking for ways to cut the release of greenhouse gases attributable to AI use, at a time that usage is very likely to grow.
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