Credit: Unsplash/CC0 Public Domain Thousands of new electricity pylons are to be built across parts of England under the government’s plans to decarbonize the electricity. And some people aren’t happy.…
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Anxious Mondays Leave Lasting Mark on Stress
Summary: A new study reveals that anxiety felt on Mondays uniquely elevates stress hormones, even in retirees, with potential consequences for heart health. Researchers found older adults who reported Monday…
Visa’s 24/7 war room takes on global cybercriminals
VISA is investing billions to use AI as a tool for detecting cyber fraud. In the heart of Data Center Alley—a patch of suburban Washington where much of the world’s…
AI robots fill in for weed killers and farm hands
Aigen’s solar-powered autonomous robots aim to take the chemicals and toil out of industrial weeding. Oblivious to the punishing midday heat, a wheeled robot powered by the sun and infused…
Chatbots are on the rise, but customers still trust human agents more
Credit: CC0 Public Domain Customers contact companies regularly to purchase products and services, inquire about orders, make payments and request returns. Until recently, the most common way for customers to…
Blurry Beginnings Shape Brain’s Visual Pathways
Summary: New research reveals how early-life blurry, low-color vision may help shape the brain’s visual pathways into specialized systems. Using computational models trained on low-quality images followed by high-quality ones,…
Police in Brazil arrest a suspect over $100M banking hack
Credit: Pixabay/CC0 Public Domain Police in Brazil arrested a suspect in connection with a cyberattack that diverted more than 540 million Brazilian reais (about $100 million) from the country’s banking…
Pilot program integrates AI-generated notes with human community notes on X platform
A research agenda for LLM-powered Community Notes. (1) Customized LLMs for note generation; (2) AI ‘co-pilots’ for human writers; (3) AI assistance for human raters; (4) Intelligent note ‘matching’ adapts…
Robotic probe quickly measures semiconductor properties to accelerate solar panel development
Credit: Pixabay/CC0 Public Domain Scientists are striving to discover new semiconductor materials that could boost the efficiency of solar cells and other electronics. But the pace of innovation is bottlenecked…
Playing games with robots makes people see them as more humanlike
Cozmo, a small interactive robot with a vivid, expressive personality. Credit: University of East Anglia The more we interact with robots, the more human we perceive them to become—according to…
