by Amelia Johns, Emily Booth, Francesco Bailo and Marian-Andrei Rizoiu, The Conversation Credit: The Conversation During the COVID pandemic, social media platforms were swarmed by far-right and anti-vaccination communities that…
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‘Did you feel this AI cared about you?’ Startup announces ‘nursebots’
Credit: Pixabay/CC0 Public Domain Medical startup Hippocratic AI is collaborating with California-based tech company NVIDIA to develop empathetic health care agents using artificial intelligence. Described by Popular Science as “nursebots,”…
AI’s excessive water consumption threatens to drown out its environmental contributions
Credit: Pixabay/CC0 Public Domain Water is needed for development, production and consumption, yet we are overusing and polluting an unsubstitutable resource and system. Eight safe and just boundaries for five…
CaMKII Can Be Regulated to Mitigate Alzheimer’s
Summary: The CaMKII protein, critical in brain and heart function, can be regulated to mitigate Alzheimer’s and heart conditions using three types of drug inhibitors. Their findings reveal that these…
New structure transistors for advanced technology node CMOS ICs
The scaling of silicon-based metal-oxide-semiconductor field-effect transistors (Si MOSFETs) and evolution of novel structure transistors in accordance with Moore’s Law, especially for modern complementary metal-oxide-semiconductor (CMOS) ICs. Core MOSFETs are…
Harmony in Chaos: How BPD Influences Music Tastes
Summary: Recent research reveals that individuals with Borderline Personality Disorder (BPD) exhibit distinct music preferences, favoring reflective and complex genres such as classical and jazz over intense, rebellious ones. The…
Canine Cognition: Dogs Match Words with Objects
Summary: A new study reveals dogs’ ability to understand words as representations of objects, indicating a deeper level of cognitive processing than previously thought. Researchers used non-invasive EEG to measure…
Apple’s ‘Walled Garden’ under fire in lawsuit
Employees applaud as the first customers enter the store to buy the Apple iPhone 15 series at The Grove Apple store in Los Angeles, California, on September 22, 2023. Call…
Researchers take major step toward developing next-generation solar cells
A technician installs solar panels on the roof of the building which houses the University of Colorado Center for Innovation and Creativity in Boulder. Credit: Glenn Asakawa/University of Colorado The solar…
