Summary: A new study reveals that in girls, symptoms of inattentive-type ADHD significantly increase the likelihood of developing anxiety during adolescence. Inattention and anxiety appear to reinforce each other in…
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Facing Trump, Microsoft vows to protect Europeans’ data
Credit: Pixabay/CC0 Public Domain Microsoft on Wednesday committed to boosting its presence in Europe and protecting European citizens’ data against a backdrop of rising “geopolitical volatility.” The tech titan’s pledges…
Deepfakes now come with a realistic heartbeat, making them harder to unmask
Credit: AI-generated image Imagine a world where deepfakes have become so good that no detection mechanism can unmask them as impostors. This would be a bonanza for criminals and malignant…
Negative Expectations Worsen Pain More Than Positive Ones Ease It
Summary: New research shows that negative expectations, known as nocebo effects, exert a stronger and longer-lasting impact on pain perception than positive expectations, or placebo effects. In a two-session study,…
Perfect is the enemy of good for distributed deep learning in the cloud
OptiReduce improves latency compared to previous methods like Ring AllReduce by reducing the number of rounds with incast parameter and setting boundaries to the path delay. Credit: Shahbaz Laboratory A…
Dopamine Signals Teach the Brain to Unlearn Fear
Summary: A new study reveals that dopamine release along a specific brain circuit helps extinguish fear by activating reward-related neurons in the amygdala. Researchers showed that dopamine from the ventral…
Dual scalable annealing processors overcome capacity and precision limits
The proposed system enables simultaneous expansion of the number of spins and interaction bit width using multiple identical LSI chips, resulting in more accurate and efficient solutions for combinatorial optimization…
