It’s ‘the intelligence age,’ say tech titans—but information will not save us

Credit: Pixabay/CC0 Public Domain “We have entered the Intelligence Age,” proclaimed Sam Altman, the chief executive of OpenAI, in September. “Deep learning worked,” he explained, and this breakthrough in learning…

Australian police are trialing AI to analyze body-worn camera footage, despite overseas failures, expert criticism

by Kathryn Henne, Charles Orgill Gretton and Kanika Samuels-Wortley, The Conversation Credit: Kindel Media from Pexels Police departments around the world are increasingly using body-worn cameras in an attempt to…

How Depression Alters Stress, Health, and Lifespan

Summary: Depression disrupts the body’s stress systems, causing physical health risks like heart disease, diabetes, and stroke, and reducing life expectancy by 7-10 years. The condition triggers brain structure changes,…

Mushroom houses for Gaza? Arab designers offer home-grown innovations

Mushroom-based structures are an appealing alternative to the shelters now housing many displaced Gazans. As winter descends on Gaza’s tent cities, emergency housing made from mushrooms could keep out the…

US finalizes up to $6.6 bn funding for chip giant TSMC

The first of TSMC’s three new facilities in Arizona is set to fully open by early-2025, according to President Joe Biden. The United States will award Taiwanese chip giant TSMC…

What is Bluesky, the fast-growing social platform welcoming fleeing X users?

The app for Bluesky is shown on a mobile phone, left, and on a laptop screen on June 2, 2023, in New York. Credit: AP Photo/Richard Drew, File Disgruntled X…

Mapping Protein Changes Across Aging

Summary: Researchers have developed the Mouse Aging Proteomic Atlas, a comprehensive database detailing protein changes in major tissues as mice age. By analyzing proteomes and transcriptomes across tissues like the…

How Stressful Events Alter Memories

Summary: Researchers have discovered how stress disrupts memory specificity, leading to generalized aversive memories—a hallmark of PTSD. Stress increases endocannabinoid release, enlarging memory engrams in the brain, which triggers fearful…

Common way to test for leaks in large language models may be flawed

This slide shows how a membership inference attack might start. Assessing the product of an app asked to generate an image of a professor teaching students in “the style of”…

Research introduces highly efficient process for NCM lithium-ion batteries