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Congress Really Wants to Regulate A.I., But No One Seems to Know How
Yet another hearing—this one with OpenAI's Sam Altman—has come after a new technology with the possibility to fundamentally alter our lives is already in circulation...
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Facebook Has Crowbarred Open the Pandora's Box of AI, Experts Warn
"You can't prevent people from creating nonsense or dangerous information or whatever."
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Linking IT's Energy Consumption to Carbon Emissions
New guidelines aim to measure, and ultimately reduce, the digital impact of the enterprise on the environment.
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'Digital Twin' of the Titanic Shows Shipwreck in Stunning Detail
Digital imaging by deepwater seabed mapping company Magellan for U.K. TV production company Atlantic Productions has yielded a "digital twin" of the RMS Titanic...
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IBM, Google Give $150 Million for U.S.-Japan Quantum-Computing Push
Quantum computing research has been given a boost at the University of Chicago and Japan's University of Tokyo with a $150-million investment from IBM and Google...
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Your Digital Life Isn't as Permanent as You Think It Is
Google will delete accounts after two years of inactivity, and experts expect more data deletion policies to come.
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Supreme Court Rules for Google, Twitter in Closely Watched Cases
The Court ruled the families of terrorism victims had not shown the companies "aided and abetted" attacks on their loved ones.
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Technologists Develop FatNet Algorithm
The FatNet algorithm can convert any convolutional neural network into a specialized network that is more compatible with an optical artificial intelligence accelerator...
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AI Drug Discovery Is $50-Billion Opportunity for Big Pharma
Drugmakers worldwide are adopting artificial intelligence in the hope of accelerating drug discovery and time to market while cutting costs.
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DarkBert AI Was Trained Using Dark Web Data
Researchers turned to the depths of the dark web to train this new language model
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Can We Stop Runaway A.I.?
Technologists warn about the dangers of the so-called singularity. But can anything actually be done to prevent it?
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3D-Knitted Robots
Researchers printed soft robots using three-dimensional (3D) knitting technology.
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Celebrating Those Who Advance Computing as a Science, Profession
ACM has recognized four people with its 2022 Service Awards for expanding its mission of "Advancing Computing as a Science and Profession."
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Seals Provided Inspiration for Waddling Robot
Seals and other pinnipeds inspired researchers to develop a waddling soft robot that reportedly features "improved degrees of freedom, gait trajectory diversity...
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A Pioneer in Participatory Design Turns 80
Christiane Floyd continues to consider the philosophical and ethical concerns of computer science.
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U.S. Universities Building New Semiconductor Workforce
U.S. universities are training next-generation semiconductor engineers and technicians to fill the jobs needed for the CHIPS Act, signed by President Biden in August...
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'De-Americanize': How China Is Remaking Its Chip Business
Seven months after Washington unveiled tough curbs, Chinese companies are doubling down on homegrown supply chains and drawing billions in cash from Beijing and...
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Google's Project Gameface Lets You Control Video Games with Blinks, Smiles
Google's Project Gameface platform allows gamers to play videogames using head movements and facial gestures.
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Jellybeans: A Sweet Solution for Overcrowded Circuitry in Quantum Computer Chips
Engineers designed "jellybean" quantum dots to enhance quantum processing by physically spreading apart quantum bits without breaking communication between them...
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