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The original version of this story appeared in Quanta Magazine. When she was 10 years old, Rose Yu got a birthday present that would change her life—and, potentially, the way we study physics. Her uncle got her a computer. That was a rare commodity in China 25 years ago, and the gift did not go unused. At first, Yu mainly played computer games, but in middle school she won an award for web design. It was the first of many computer-related honors. Yu went on to major in computer science at Zhej
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College graduates were left speechless after officials at New York City's Pace University deployed an AI model to read out their names during a commencement event this month. A video that has since gone viral on social media shows students having a QR on their smartphone scanned, only to have an AI read their name out loud — an irritating use of the tech that turned what should've otherwise been a proud moment in their academic career into what commenters likened to using the self-checkout coun
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As the Trump administration continues its attack on higher education, Education Secretary Linda McMahon has laid out some guidance for how universities can keep the attack dogs at bay: just share the values of the administration and do exactly as it asks. “Universities should continue to be able to do research as long as they’re abiding by the laws and in sync, I think, with the administration and what the administration is trying to accomplish,” McMahon said in an interview with CNBC on Wednes
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This article originally appeared on Inside Climate News, a nonprofit, non-partisan news organization that covers climate, energy, and the environment. Sign up for their newsletter here. PASADENA, Calif.—Nicole Byrne watched anxiously from across the small kitchen in her home as Parham Azimi, a Harvard University researcher, lined up sample bottles next to the running tap. As his phone timer chimed, indicating the water pipes had been flushed for the required five minutes, Azimi began filling c
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It seems so convenient: when you are short of time, asking ChatGPT or another chatbot to summarise a scientific paper to quickly get a gist of it. But in up to 73 per cent of the cases, these large language models (LLMs) produce inaccurate conclusions, a new study by Uwe Peters (Utrecht University) and Benjamin Chin-Yee (Western University and University of Cambridge) finds. Almost 5,000 LLM-generated summaries analysed The researchers tested ten of the most prominent LLMs, including ChatGPT,
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Editor's take: The University of Arizona could become the birthplace of the world's first petahertz-speed transistor. If successful, this research work could mark the dawn of a new era in computing, where the speed of light, rather than electricity, sets the pace for innovation. A team of scientists has unveiled a breakthrough that could one day propel computers to operate at speeds millions of times faster than today's most advanced processors. The discovery, led by researchers at the Univers
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Katie Drummond: These names are horrific, by the way. Just memo to Chegg and Studdy, you have some work to do. You both have some work to do. Lauren Goode: Chegg has been around for a while, right? Katie Drummond: It's a bad name. Lauren Goode: Yeah. Michael Calore: It has been, it's been very popular for a while. One of the reasons it's popular is the writing assistant. Basically you upload your paper and it checks it for grammar and syntax and it just helps you sound smarter. It also check
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Anastasija Collen got her first computer during what she calls the “wild, wild west days” of computing, when viruses were rampant, and people routinely adopted various identities for different forums and chats. This thrilling world fueled Collen’s interest—and her skepticism–and both drove her to investigate how the seemingly pervasive vulnerabilities of that time might be exploited. From these powerful roots, Collen has built a cybersecurity career that spans industry and academia. Collen is c
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Arduino Team — April 22nd is Earth Day – a powerful reminder of our shared responsibility to preserve the planet for future generations. While the call for climate action grows louder, Arduino is committed to making sustainability an ongoing priority through concrete projects and global collaborations every day of the year. One of the most exciting steps in that direction is our work on bio-based printed circuit boards (PCBs) – announced by co-founder David Cuartielles during this year’s Ardui
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Serving tech enthusiasts for over 25 years.TechSpot means tech analysis and advice you can trust Forward-looking: Scientists have discovered a new species of cable bacteria that uses distinctive nickel-based fibers to conduct electricity, revealing key insights into its evolutionary history. This discovery offers potential for new bioelectronic applications and environmental cleanup technologies. Scientists have identified a new species of bacteria in the mudflats of Oregon's Yaquina Bay that
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Serving tech enthusiasts for over 25 years.TechSpot means tech analysis and advice you can trust Forward-looking: Scientists have discovered a new species of cable bacteria that uses distinctive nickel-based fibers to conduct electricity, revealing key insights into its evolutionary history. This discovery offers potential for new bioelectronic applications and environmental cleanup technologies. Scientists have identified a new species of bacteria in the mudflats of Oregon's Yaquina Bay that
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* * * I. The Wars of The Roses (2020–22) “understanding wars” • GPT-3 • “a field in crisis” As transformer models approached (and surpassed) “human baselines” on various NLP benchmarks, arguments were already brewing about how to interpret their capabilities. In 2020, those arguments — especially about “meaning” and “understanding” — came to a head in a paper imagining an LLM as an octopus. Emily M. Bender (professor, department of linguistics, University of Washington) Susan Doupé Photograp
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* * * I. The Wars of The Roses (2020–22) “understanding wars” • GPT-3 • “a field in crisis” As transformer models approached (and surpassed) “human baselines” on various NLP benchmarks, arguments were already brewing about how to interpret their capabilities. In 2020, those arguments — especially about “meaning” and “understanding” — came to a head in a paper imagining an LLM as an octopus. Emily M. Bender (professor, department of linguistics, University of Washington) Susan Doupé Photograp
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The subreddit r/changemyview has long been a contentious place for Reddit users to "post an opinion" and "understand other perspectives." It's a forum filled with fiery — but largely civil — debates, covering everything from the role political activism to the dangers of social media echo chambers. Lately, though, not every user posting on the forum has been a real human. As 404 Media reported this week, University of Zurich researchers dispatched an army of AI chatbots to debate human users on
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Hominids have been using fire for at least a million years — but scientists have found that human fire-wielding skills during our planet's last great Ice Age became so advanced that they would have made Bobby Flay proud. A group of archaeologists from across Europe has found, per a new study in the journal Geoarchaeology, that tens of thousands of years ago, Homo sapiens — better known as modern humans — figured out how to make fires that burned up to 600 degrees Celsius, or more than 1,100 deg
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Trigger warning for brief references to sexual assault. It’s been discovered that millions of Reddit users were deceived and “psychologically manipulated” by an unauthorized AI experiment performed by researchers from the University of Zurich … The university secretly used AI bots to post in the highly-popular Change My View subreddit, with large language models taking on a variety of personas, including a rape victim and a trauma counsellor. The university disclosed the deception to moderato
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A hot potato: Once again, the problem of AI being used by students to cheat on exams has reared its head. On this occasion, the University of Waterloo's Canadian Computing Competition (CCC) has decided not to publish its official results, which it usually does, over the belief that AI was used by some participants to write code. Those who do well in the University of Waterloo's CCC are often accepted into the University's prestigious computing and engineering programs, or are even selected to r
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A hot potato: Once again, the problem of AI being used by students to cheat on exams has reared its head. On this occasion, the University of Waterloo's Canadian Computing Competition (CCC) has decided not to publish its official results, which it usually does, over the belief that AI was used by some participants to write code. Those who do well in the University of Waterloo's CCC are often accepted into the University's prestigious computing and engineering programs, or are even selected to r
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A hot potato: Once again, the problem of AI being used by students to cheat on exams has reared its head. On this occasion, the University of Waterloo's Canadian Computing Competition (CCC) has decided not to publish its official results, which it usually does, over the belief that AI was used by some participants to write code. Those who do well in the University of Waterloo's CCC are often accepted into the University's prestigious computing and engineering programs, or are even selected to r
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We are constantly perceiving the world around us. As we do, we make decisions on how to move our bodies. The brain’s ability to process all the required sensory and motor information for this is no small feat. And one of neuroscience’s most significant questions is how exactly our brains integrate these two information sources as efficiently as they do. The newly launched Simons Collaboration on Ecological Neuroscience (SCENE) will unite leading scientists across neuroscience and machine learni
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Last Friday, in an op-ed piece on the Trump administration's war on American universities, we called for academia to 1) band together and 2) resist coercive control over hiring and teaching, though we noted that the 3) "temperamental caution of university administrators" means that they might "have trouble finding a clear voice to speak with when they come under thundering public attacks from a government they are more used to thinking of as a funding source." It only took billions of dollars i
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Last Friday, in an op-ed piece on the Trump administration's war on American universities, we called for academia to 1) band together and 2) resist coercive control over hiring and teaching, though we noted that the 3) "temperamental caution of university administrators" means that they might "have trouble finding a clear voice to speak with when they come under thundering public attacks from a government they are more used to thinking of as a funding source." It only took billions of dollars i
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Think you've seen all the colors that exist? Maybe not. Researchers at the University of California at Berkeley and the University of Washington have created a new system that controls the eye's photoreceptors to help it see new colors, as reported in the journal Science Advances last week. The system, called Oz, works by activating cone cells in the retina -- in short, firing laser pulses at researchers' eyes -- to push the eye past "spectral sensitivities" and to "elicit a color beyond the na
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On Monday, Harvard University filed a lawsuit that it hopes will end the federal government's hold on over $2 billion of research funds destined for the university's faculty. The suit claims that the government's demands for input on Harvard's hiring and admissions violate the university's First Amendment rights, and that the funding freeze hasn't followed the procedures laid out in federal law. Earlier in April, the government sent a letter to Harvard demanding various changes, from altering u
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Serving tech enthusiasts for over 25 years.TechSpot means tech analysis and advice you can trust A hot potato: Next-generation DNA sequencing (NGS) faces mounting scrutiny over its cyber vulnerabilities. While NGS has revolutionized fields ranging from cancer diagnostics to infectious disease tracking, a new study warns that the systems enabling these advances could also be exploited as a gateway for hackers and malicious actors. The research, published in IEEE Access and led by Dr. Nasreen An
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Serving tech enthusiasts for over 25 years.TechSpot means tech analysis and advice you can trust A hot potato: Next-generation DNA sequencing (NGS) faces mounting scrutiny over its cyber vulnerabilities. While NGS has revolutionized fields ranging from cancer diagnostics to infectious disease tracking, a new study warns that the systems enabling these advances could also be exploited as a gateway for hackers and malicious actors. The research, published in IEEE Access and led by Dr. Nasreen An
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Think you've seen all the colors that exist? Maybe not. Researchers at the University of California at Berkeley and the University of Washington have created a new system that controls the eye's photoreceptors to help it see new colors, as reported in the journal Science Advances last week. Researchers didn't immediately respond to a request for comment. The system, called Oz, works by activating cone cells in the retina -- in short, firing laser pulses at researchers' eyes -- to push the eye
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“Just when I thought I was out, they pull me back in!” With a sly grin that I’d soon come to recognize, Paul Ginsparg quoted Michael Corleone from The Godfather. Ginsparg, a physics professor at Cornell University and a certified MacArthur genius, may have little in common with Al Pacino’s mafia don, but both are united by the feeling that they were denied a graceful exit from what they’ve built. Nearly 35 years ago, Ginsparg created arXiv, a digital repository where researchers could share the
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Trump administration threatens Harvard with foreign student ban 1 hour ago Share Save Kelly Ng BBC News Share Save Getty Images Harvard President Alan Garber has flatly rejected the White House's sweeping list of demands The US government has threatened to ban Harvard University from enrolling foreign students - after the institution said it would not bow to demands from President Donald Trump's administration and was hit with a funding freeze. The White House has demanded the oldest universi
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