Summary: A new study delves into the psychological dynamics of impatience, exploring why waiting feels so arduous. Through two comprehensive studies, researchers investigate how the need for closure exacerbates impatience,…
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What to know about the EU’s landmark digital content law
Credit: Pixabay/CC0 Public Domain The EU’s milestone legislation known as the Digital Services Act demands that digital companies crack down on illegal and problematic content. Since August the law has…
New machine learning method predicts future data patterns to optimize data storage
Credit: CC0 Public Domain Researchers have developed a new machine-learning technique that helps computer systems predict future data patterns and optimize how information gets stored. They found these predictions could…
Unlocking Cell Death Secrets: Lipids Key to Ferroptosis Control
Summary: Researchers have made a groundbreaking discovery, identifying a rare lipid as a crucial factor in ferroptosis, a unique form of cell death. This lipid, characterized by its two polyunsaturated…
The Impact of Borderline Personality Disorder on Jealousy and Relationship Retention
Summary: Individuals with borderline personality (BPD) features are more prone to suspicious jealousy, which significantly influences their romantic relationships. This suspiciousness leads to a range of mate retention behaviors, from…
Why We Learn Better From People We Like
Summary: Our brains favor learning from individuals we like over those we dislike, a phenomenon crucial for memory integration. Through experiments involving everyday objects, the study demonstrated that our ability…
Emotional Processing Influenced by Culture and Language
Summary: Recent research reveals that recognizing emotions through body language is not purely instinctual but culturally learned. Scientists in the US discovered that emotion category words like ‘disgust’ influence how…
An integrated shuffler optimizes the privacy of personal genomic data used for machine learning
KAUST researchers developed a machine-learning approach aimed at preserving privacy while analyzing omics data for medical research. Credit: 2024 KAUST; Heno Hwang By integrating an ensemble of privacy-preserving algorithms, a…
Cisco Systems to lay off more than 4,000 workers in latest sign of tighter times in tech
An exterior view of Cisco Systems Inc. headquarters, May 9, 2012, in Santa Clara, Calif. On Wednesday, Feb. 14, 2024, internet networking pioneer Cisco Systems announced that more than 4,000…
Aim policies at hardware to ensure AI safety, say experts
Credit: Pixabay/CC0 Public Domain A global registry tracking the flow of chips destined for AI supercomputers is one of the policy options highlighted by a major new report calling for…
