AI tools developed by Elon Musk’s xAI are to be incorporated into the messaging service, Telegram. Announcing the deal, Telegram boss Pavel Durov said it would see his firm distribute the AI assistant, Grok, to Telegram’s “billion+ users and integrate it into its apps”. Mr Durov said the arrangement – which is due to last…
UNIVERSITY PARK, Pa. — Silicon is king in the semiconductor technology that underpins smartphones, computers, electric vehicles and more, but its crown may be slipping according to a team led by researchers at Penn State. In a world first, they used two-dimensional (2D) materials, which are only an atom thick and retain their properties at…
A second suspect has been arrested for allegedly kidnapping and torturing an Italian tourist in an upmarket Manhattan home for weeks in an effort to steal his cryptocurrency. William Duplessie, 32, turned himself in to authorities on Tuesday after his alleged accomplice was arrested last week. Their alleged victim told police he was hung off…
Data and AI tools enable broad surveillance of social media Tada Images/Shutterstock The US government is expanding its surveillance of social media to monitor millions of visitors and immigrants – and its embrace of more data analytics and artificial intelligence tools could increase scrutiny of US citizens as well. “It is nearly – if not…
An emerging technology to make lithium-ion batteries safer and more powerful involves using solid rather than liquid electrolytes, the materials that make it possible for ions to move through the device to generate power. A team of University of Texas at Dallas researchers and their colleagues have discovered that the mixing of small particles between…
Academic researchers found a way to broadcast sensitive data from airgapped systems It involves having malware installed on the computer, and an accompanying smartwatch The attack is rather difficult to pull off Security experts claim to have found a way to steal sensitive data from airgapped systems using smartwatches. Airgapped computers are physically isolated from…
A team of Washington State University-led researchers has recreated the world’s oldest synthetic pigment, called Egyptian blue, which was used in ancient Egypt about 5,000 years ago. Reporting in the journal, NPJ Heritage Science, the researchers used a variety of raw materials and heating times to develop 12 recipes for the pigments, providing useful information…
Antimicrobial resistance directly causes more than 1 million deaths every year and contributes to more than 35 million more, according to the World Health Organization. Staphylococcus aureus and Enterococcus sp., 2 gram-positive pathogens highly likely to develop resistance to known treatments, can cause dangerous hospital-acquired and community-acquired infections. This week in Microbiology Spectrum, researchers describe…
As artificial intelligence and smart devices continue to evolve, machine vision is taking an increasingly pivotal role as a key enabler of modern technologies. Unfortunately, despite much progress, machine vision systems still face a major problem: processing the enormous amounts of visual data generated every second requires substantial power, storage, and computational resources. This limitation…
The Chinese Room has announced the Still Wakes the Deep: Siren’s Rest expansion The expansion will launch on June 18 for PC and console Siren’s Deep will take place over a decade after the events of the original story Developer The Chinese Room has announced Siren’s Rest, a brand new story expansion for its 2024…
