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A new form of testing claims to predict how likely an unborn child is to develop diseases. Source link

The logo of the social media platform Reddit Artur Widak/NurPhoto via Getty Image Reddit users who were unwittingly subjected to an AI-powered experiment have hit back at scientists for conducting research on them without permission – and have sparked a wider debate about such experiments. The social media site Reddit is split into “subreddits” dedicated…

Devina Gupta Business reporter Mansukh Prajapati An earthquake changed the life of Mansukh Prajapati For Mansukh Prajapati, childhood in the western Indian city of Morbi began before sunrise, with a six-mile walk to collect clay for their family business. “My father was a potter,” he recalls. Often he would wake up to the rhythmic sound…

SpiNNaker 2 supercomputer operates without disks or an operating system for unmatched speed Sandia’s system uses 152 cores per chip to mimic the parallelism of the human brain With 138,240 terabytes of DRAM, the SpiNNaker 2 relies entirely on memory speed A new computing system modeled after the architecture of the human brain has been…

The Moto tag finally supports ultra-wideband tracking This brings the Android Find Hub tracker on par with Apple’s AirTags No word yet on when other Find Hub trackers will support UWB Google’s Find Hub – previously Find My Device – has been a fairly proficient Android alternative to the always useful Apple Find My service,…

Some deepfake videos present a convincing pulse Alamy Stock Photo Deepfake videos that feature digital manipulations of people’s facial expressions and voices can also depict realistic heartbeats, making them even harder to spot. “We now know that just because a person in a video has a measurable pulse, it doesn’t mean that we can assume…

Below ocean wind farms, oil rigs and other offshore installations are mammoth networks of underwater structures, including pipelines, anchors, risers and cables, that are essential to harness the energy source. But much like terrestrial structures, these subsea constructions are also vulnerable to natural events, like submarine landslides, that can hamper the productivity of installations below…

QPUs may run AI inference faster and cheaper than conventional hardware ever could Hybrid nodes combining CPUs, Nvidia GPUs, and diamond QPUs could change how we build quantum software From defense to finance, Quantum Brilliance is betting on diamond chips to drive adoption Diamonds have emerged as a critical material in the development of quantum…

The job of a catalyst is to ultimately speed up reactions, which could reduce an hour-long process into several minutes. It has recently been shown that using external magnetic fields to modulate spin states of single-atom catalysts (SACs) is highly effective — enhancing oxygen evolution reaction magnetocurrent by a staggering 2,880%. With this in mind,…

Liv McMahon Technology reporter Getty Images The EU is investigating Pornhub, Stripchat and two other pornography websites it believes may be falling foul of its online content laws. The European Commission said the sites, which also include XVideos and XNXX, did not appear to have measures in place to safeguard children and their rights. It…