Meta expands generative AI tools to boost effectiveness of ads

Credit: Unsplash/CC0 Public Domain Meta Platforms Inc. is rolling out new generative AI tools for all advertisers, expanding on an earlier test of the features that let marketers create images…

Climate ‘course correction’ on the Cop28 negotiating table

In response to a global stocktake report, ministers will debate collective goals such as phasing out fossil fuels by 2040 The United Nations has put a series of challenging climate…

Measuring the g factor of electrons in hydrogen-like tin

A global report finds amphibians are still in peril. But it’s not all bad news

Nearly 20 years ago, the first global assessment of amphibians found the animals facing widespread declines. Now, a second, updated report shows that many amphibians are still in trouble, but…

Quantum Annealing for Function Optimization

Newswise — Quantum annealing (QA) is a cutting-edge algorithm that leverages the unique properties of quantum computing to tackle complex combinatorial optimization problems (a class of mathematical problems dealing with…

Dynamic AI Menus Coming to White Castle Drive-Thru Lanes

Artificial intelligence is coming to more than 100 drive-thru lanes at White Castle, the fast food hamburger chain that invented the “slider” in 1921. The company announced Tuesday that the…

Zebrafish avatars can help tailor glioblastoma therapies

Patient-derived tumor cells (green) growing in a zebrafish embryo with its vascular network labeled in yellow, and its macrophages, a type of immune cell, in red. Credit: Lise Finotto, VIB –…

Farmers turn to solar power in Syria’s former breadbasket

Solar panels are helping Syrian farmers irrigate their crops despite electricity shortages and drought. At his farm in Syria’s northeast, Abdullah al-Mohammed adjusts a large solar panel, one of hundreds…

Unexpectedly Calm and Remote Galaxy Cluster Discovered

Cluster is farthest ever spotted not disrupted by violent collisions with other galaxy clusters. Astronomers have discovered the most distant “relaxed” galaxy cluster to date — the farthest cluster ever spotted that…

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