EU universal charger rules come into force

Most devices already use these cables, but Apple was more than a little reluctant. EU rules requiring all new smartphones, tablets and cameras to use the same charger came into…

The Personality Gap Between Singles and the Partnered

Summary: Lifelong singles score lower on life satisfaction and show distinct personality traits compared to those in long-term relationships. Using data from 77,000 Europeans aged 50+, researchers observed that lifelong…

Classical vs. Operant Conditioning: The Brain’s Memory Tug-of-War

Summary: Classical and operant conditioning compete in the brain, preventing simultaneous learning of conflicting actions. Using fruit flies, researchers demonstrated that attempting to teach both types of learning simultaneously results…

Oxytocin Influences Social Behavior and Emotional Response

Summary: New research reveals how oxytocin profoundly influences social behavior and emotional responses in the brain. Animal models have shown how this hormone impacts social fear and how chronic stress…

Sport produces mountains of high-tech waste—researchers are finding new ways to recycle it

Credit: Unsplash/CC0 Public Domain In the early days of the modern Olympics and Paralympics, athletes competed using heavy, non-aerodynamic equipment. The record for throwing a javelin, for instance, has almost…

A comprehensive survey of federated transfer learning: Challenges, methods and applications

The challenges of FTL. Credit: Wei Guo, Fuzhen Zhuang, Xiao Zhang, Yiqi Tong, Jin Dong Federated Learning (FL) has gained significant attention as a novel distributed machine learning paradigm that…

AI and robots pose new ethical challenges for society

The first book to focus on law, policy, and regulation in human-robot interaction is now available online. Credit: Used with permission from Cambridge University Press, 2024 Artificial intelligence (AI) and…

Montenegro to extradite crypto entrepreneur Do Kwon to US

Do Kwon’s ‘stable coin’ cryptocurrency TerraUSD was not stable in the end, wiping out about $40 billion of investors’ money and shaking global crypto markets. Montenegro said Friday it will…

OpenAI outlines plans to becoming for-profit company

Credit: Unsplash/CC0 Public Domain ChatGPT-maker OpenAI laid out plans Friday for a new corporate structure shifting away from control by a non-profit—an issue of contention for the artificial intelligence trailblazer.…

Study explores microbial methods for hydrogen production from waste