Chatbots are on the rise, but customers still trust human agents more

Credit: CC0 Public Domain Customers contact companies regularly to purchase products and services, inquire about orders, make payments and request returns. Until recently, the most common way for customers to…

Blurry Beginnings Shape Brain’s Visual Pathways

Summary: New research reveals how early-life blurry, low-color vision may help shape the brain’s visual pathways into specialized systems. Using computational models trained on low-quality images followed by high-quality ones,…

Why we need to take concussion and chronic traumatic encephalopathy more seriously

Credit: Pixabay/CC0 Public Domain Concussion in sport continues to make headlines, whether it be class actions, young men flocking to the highly violent “RunIt” activity or debate about whether Australian…

Why is there no life on Mars? Rover finds a clue

Despite brief oases, Mars was likely doomed to be a desert planet, a new study suggests. Why is Mars barren and uninhabitable, while life has always thrived here on our…

A ‘Golden Handle’ will appear on the moon on July 5. Here’s how to see it

Saturday night presents a perfect opportunity to spot a “Golden Handle” shining brightly on the moon’s surface. It is a fleeting sight that appears when sunlight catches the peaks of…

Police in Brazil arrest a suspect over $100M banking hack

Credit: Pixabay/CC0 Public Domain Police in Brazil arrested a suspect in connection with a cyberattack that diverted more than 540 million Brazilian reais (about $100 million) from the country’s banking…

Gravestone depicting 13th century knight unearthed in central Gdańsk

Archaeologists from ArcheoScan have unearthed a rare gravestone depicting a medieval knight during excavations in the centre of Gdańsk, Poland. The site under investigation was once home to a 12th-century…

Angler unexpectedly fishes out a mysterious medieval sword

An angler fishing in the Vistula River in Warsaw has made an unexpected discovery, a medieval sword dating back hundreds of years. The sword, now under the care of the…

Pilot program integrates AI-generated notes with human community notes on X platform

A research agenda for LLM-powered Community Notes. (1) Customized LLMs for note generation; (2) AI ‘co-pilots’ for human writers; (3) AI assistance for human raters; (4) Intelligent note ‘matching’ adapts…

Improving randomness may be the key to more powerful quantum computers

The circuit construction used to prove the paper’s main result. Each block represents a quantum circuit acting on a small patch of the entire system. Credit: Thomas Schuster, Jonas Haferkamp,…