Women with common heart rhythm disorder found to have faster cognitive decline than men

Credit: Unsplash/CC0 Public Domain Women with atrial fibrillation progress more rapidly to cognitive impairment and dementia than men with the heart rhythm condition, according to research presented today at ACNAP…

Twitter faces ‘stress test’ of Europe’s tough new Big Tech rules

A top European Union official is in Silicon Valley to check whether Twitter is ready to comply with the bloc’s tough new digital rulebook, a set of sweeping new standards…

Revelations from the embryo: Glimpses into the prenatal period

Two weeks after sperm fertilizes egg is a critical time in human prenatal development. Intricate waves of signals stamp cells with their eventual fates as part of a particular organ.…

Global diabetes cases expected to soar from 529 million to 1.3 billion by 2050

Credit: Unsplash/CC0 Public Domain More than half a billion people are living with diabetes worldwide, affecting men, women, and children of all ages in every country, and that number is…

Disney use of AI for Marvel TV series spooks Hollywood

‘Secret Invasion,’ a paranoid spy thriller about shape-shifting aliens starring Samuel L Jackson, used AI as well as human illustrators to generate its opening credits. The use of artificial intelligence…

New device opens door to storing quantum information as sound waves

Credit: CC0 Public Domain Quantum computing, just like traditional computing, needs a way to store the information it uses and processes. On the computer you’re using right now, information, whether…

New gravitational waves observation run to reveal more of the universe’s secrets

Credit: CC0 Public Domain A new observation run to search for ripples in space-time generated by colliding black holes and other extreme cosmic events will take gravitational wave astronomy to…

Archaeologists use artificial intelligence (AI) to translate 5,000-year-old cuneiform tablets |

A team of archaeologists and computer scientists have created an AI program that can translate ancient cuneiform tablets instantly using neural machine learning translations. In a paper published in the…

A nutritionist explains how those lost in the wild survived on bare basics

Credit: Pixabay/CC0 Public Domain Earlier this year, the Colombian navy rescued a sailor from Dominica who survived for 24 days on ketchup, garlic powder and seasoning cubes after his boat…

Generative AI models are encoding biases and negative stereotypes in their users, say researchers

Credit: Unsplash/CC0 Public Domain In the space of a few months generative AI models, such as ChatGPT, Google’s Bard and Midjourney, have been adopted by more and more people in…