California partners with Nvidia to bring artificial intelligence resources to colleges

Credit: Pixabay/CC0 Public Domain California is partnering with tech giant Nvidia to help train the state’s students, college faculty, developers and data scientists in artificial intelligence, officials announced Friday. The…

OpenAI worries its AI voice may charm users

Actors Scarlett Johansson (R) and Joaquin Phoenix starred in the 2013 fiction film ‘Her’, in which a man falls in love with a human sounding AI assistant. OpenAI says it…

New temple discovery at Selinunte

Archaeologists have discovered a small temple complex adjacent to the monumental Temple C at Selinunte, Sicily. Selinunte was a major city centre in the Greek-speaking areas of Southern Italy known…

Remission of type 2 diabetes feasible with soup and shake diet intervention

A behavioral intervention designed to support weight loss can yield remission of type 2 diabetes, according to a study published online Aug 5 in The Lancet Diabetes & Endocrinology. Jonathan…

NASA tests deployment of Roman Space Telescope’s ‘visor’

After a successful test deployment at NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland, clean room technicians inspect the Deployable Aperture Cover for NASA’s Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope. Credit:…

Confirmation from the first global meta-analysis

Credit: Pixabay/CC0 Public Domain The Dengue vaccine has an efficacy rate of over 50% in reducing disease cases, with lasting effects and a very good safety profile. This is confirmed…

Winds of change—the new tech steering commercial shipping towards a more sustainable future

The Pyxis Ocean made history in August 2023 when it set sail using the pioneering WindWings®, developed with the help of EU funding. Credit: © 2024 Cargill, Incorporated In August…

Researchers expose vulnerability of speech emotion recognition models to adversarial attacks

Archaeologists discover lost medieval village

Construction works by the Federal Office for Radiation Protection (BfS) have led to the discovery of a lost medieval village in Munich, Germany. Excavations have revealed traces of several medieval…

Infectious diseases spike when kids return to school − here’s what you can do about it

Ready or not, back-to-school season is here, and kids will be bringing home more than homework. They’ll be carrying germs, too. These viruses and bacteria will be agents that cause…