Summary: A large-scale study has found that playing video games boosts cognitive abilities, but has no impact on mental health, while exercise improves mental well-being without affecting cognition. Over 1,000…
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Google wins delay in opening Android app store to rivals
Google’s Android mobile operating system powers most smartphones, and the US tech giant strives to make its Play Store the go-to place for buying games and other digital goods. A…
Japan shifting back to nuclear to ditch coal, power AI
Masaki Daito, deputy superintendent of the Kashiwazaki-Kariwa nuclear power station, walks through a corridor inside the unit 7 reactor building. Glinting in the sun by the world’s biggest nuclear plant,…
New algorithm advances graph mining for complex networks
Credit: Unsplash/CC0 Public Domain University of Virginia School of Engineering and Applied Science professor Nikolaos Sidiropoulos has introduced a breakthrough in graph mining with the development of a new computational…
US to probe Tesla’s ‘Full Self-Driving’ system after pedestrian killed in low visibility conditions
The logo of Tesla car is pictured at the Paris Auto Show, in Paris, Monday, Oct. 14, 2024. Credit: AP Photo/Michel Euler The U.S. government’s road safety agency is investigating…
World’s First Face and Whole-Eye Transplant Marks Surgical Breakthrough
Summary: A surgical team successfully performed the world’s first combined face and whole-eye transplant, marking a significant advancement in transplant surgery. The operation, performed on a military veteran, involved more…
Researchers develop method enabling LLMs to answer questions more concisely and accurately
Credit: AI-generated image Large language models (LLMs) are machine-learning models designed to understand and generate human language. State-of-the-art LLMs have demonstrated outstanding potential in open-domain question answering (ODQA), where the…
When Does Election Debunking Work? New Model Provides Insights
Summary: A study using a computational model reveals factors that influence whether debunking efforts about disputed election results will persuade people to change their beliefs. The model shows that debunking…
AI is supposed to be Hollywood’s next big thing: What’s taking so long?
Credit: Pixabay/CC0 Public Domain Earlier this year, OpenAI and other artificial intelligence companies wooed Hollywood studios with the futuristic promise of AI tools that they said could help make the…
