Staff cuts make it difficult to fight online misinformation.

Big Tech is cutting back on its efforts to combat misinformation online. Google, Twitter and Meta are all cutting jobs that were supposed to keep the internet clean. The reduction in efforts to tackle disinformation is raising fears that trust online will erode even further, a...

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Bing and ChatGPT are full of flaws.

Bing's AI-powered search engine, developed in partnership with OpenAI, made several mistakes during its public demo, including providing incorrect financial data and making up information about a pet vacuum. Users who tested the search engine also reported similar errors. Bing...

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A robot’s journey underneath the Doomsday glacier.

Icefin, a robot designed to swim under 2,000 feet of ice, has found trouble beneath the Doomsday Glacier. The robot found that 10% of the glacier's ice shelf contributes to 25% of the melting observed. The glacier has been rapidly deteriorating, and if it collapses, global sea...

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AI matchmaking technology cures aggressive blood cancer.

Researchers used new matchmaking technology to find the right drug for a man with blood cancer that chemotherapy failed to eliminate. The technology considers biological differences and tested dozens of treatments using automation and computer vision. The man's cancer disappea...

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Privacy in the Age of AI: Risks, Challenges and Solutions

As technology continues to advance at an unprecedented rate, AI has become increasingly prevalent in many areas of our lives. From generative AI that can create any type of content using a simple prompt to smart home devices that learn our habits and preferences, AI has the po...

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Zoom fatigue: when video calls go from hype to reality.

Zoom, the video conferencing platform, recently laid off 15% of its staff, or about 1,300 people. This came after the company had tripled its headcount in the past two years. The CEO, Eric Yuan, took responsibility for the layoffs and vowed to reduce his salary by 98% to $10,000.

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The battle of the bots is heating up!

Google's new chatbot, Bard, is set to take on the mighty ChatGPT. Bard will be available to a select group of "trusted testers" before being unleashed on the world later this year. It promises to explain complex subjects in simple terms. Google also recently invested in AI sta...

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As expected, our brain moves between order and chaos.

New research using brain imaging on people undergoing brain surgery for epilepsy has shown that our minds flit between stability and chaos as we go about our daily activities. The scientists behind the study hope that by understanding the patterns of brain activity, they may o...

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