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April 19, 2024

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Breakthrough Promises Secure Quantum Computing at Home

Apr. 11, 2024 — The full power of next-generation quantum computing could soon be harnessed by millions of individuals and companies, thanks to a breakthrough guaranteeing security and privacy. This advance promises to unlock the transformative potential of ...

Can the Bias in Algorithms Help Us See Our Own?

Apr. 9, 2024 — New research shows that people recognize more of their biases in algorithms' decisions than they do in their own -- even when those decisions are the ...

Hidden Geometry of Learning: Neural Networks Think Alike

Mar. 27, 2024 — Engineers have uncovered an unexpected pattern in how neural networks -- the systems leading today's AI revolution -- learn, suggesting an answer to one of the most important unanswered questions in AI: why these methods work so well. The result not ...

Scientists Deliver Quantum Algorithm to Develop New Materials and Chemistry

Mar. 25, 2024 — Scientists published the Cascaded Variational Quantum Eigensolver (CVQE) algorithm in a recent article, expected to become a powerful tool to investigate the physical properties in electronic ...

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Computer Scientists Show the Way: AI Models Need Not Be SO Power Hungry

Apr. 3, 2024 — The development of AI models is an overlooked climate culprit. Computer scientists have created a recipe book for designing AI models that use much less energy without compromising performance. They ...

Scientists Release State-of-the-Art Spike-Sorting Software Kilosort4

Apr. 8, 2024 — Researchers have released Kilosort4, the newest version of a popular spike-sorting software that enables scientists to make sense of the mountains of data collected from recording the simultaneous ...

New Privacy-Preserving Robotic Cameras Obscure Images Beyond Human Recognition

Apr. 4, 2024 — In a bid to restore privacy, researchers have created a new approach to designing cameras that process and scramble visual information before it is ...

Novel Quantum Algorithm for High-Quality Solutions to Combinatorial Optimization Problems

Mar. 25, 2024 — Conventional quantum algorithms are not feasible for solving combinatorial optimization problems (COPs) with constraints in the operation time of ...

Where Quantum Computers Can Score

Mar. 18, 2024 — The traveling salesman problem is considered a prime example of a combinatorial optimization problem. Now a team has shown that a certain class of such problems can actually be solved better and much ...

AI Can Now Detect COVID-19 in Lung Ultrasound Images

Mar. 20, 2024 — Artificial intelligence can spot COVID-19 in lung ultrasound images much like facial recognition software can spot a face in a crowd, new research shows. The findings boost AI-driven medical ...

New Study Shows Analog Computing Can Solve Complex Equations and Use Far Less Energy

Mar. 14, 2024 — A team of engineers has proven that their analog computing device, called a memristor, can complete complex, scientific computing tasks while ...

The Role of Machine Learning and Computer Vision in Imageomics

Mar. 7, 2024 — A new field promises to usher in a new era of using machine learning and computer vision to tackle small and large-scale questions about the biology of organisms around the ...

Method Rapidly Verifies That a Robot Will Avoid Collisions

Mar. 7, 2024 — A new safety-check technique can prove with 100 percent accuracy that a planned robot motion will not result in a collision. The method can generate a proof in seconds and does so in a way that can ...

AI Can Speed Design of Health Software

Mar. 6, 2024 — Artificial intelligence helped clinicians to accelerate the design of diabetes prevention software, a new study ...

Software Speeds Up Drug Development

Mar. 1, 2024 — Sugars cover nearly all proteins present at the surface of the cells in our bodies, forming a shield around the proteins. Thus, these sugars influence how cells interact with their environment ...

Researchers Develop AI That Can Understand Light in Photographs

Feb. 20, 2024 — Despite significant progress in developing AI systems that can understand the physical world like humans do, researchers have struggled with modelling a certain aspect of our visual system: the ...

Widespread Machine Learning Methods Behind 'Link Prediction' Are Performing Very Poorly

Feb. 12, 2024 — New research establishes that the metric used to measure link prediction performance is missing crucial information, and link prediction tasks are performing significantly worse than popular ...

Researchers Show Classical Computers Can Keep Up With, and Surpass, Their Quantum Counterparts

Feb. 9, 2024 — A team of scientists has devised means for classical computing to mimic a quantum computing with far fewer resources than previously thought. The scientists' results show that classical ...

Computer-Engineered DNA to Study Cell Identities

Feb. 5, 2024 — A new computer program allows scientists to design synthetic DNA segments that indicate, in real time, the state of cells. It will be used to screen for anti-cancer or viral infections drugs, or to ...

A Physical Qubit With Built-in Error Correction

Feb. 2, 2024 — Researchers have succeeded in generating a logical qubit from a single light pulse that has the inherent capacity to correct ...

AI Learns Through the Eyes and Ears of a Child

Feb. 1, 2024 — Researchers have been skeptical that recent AI advances can tell us much about human learning and development. To address this, a team training an AI model, not on massive data, but on the input that ...

Robot Trained to Read Braille at Twice the Speed of Humans

Jan. 29, 2024 — Researchers have developed a robotic sensor that incorporates artificial intelligence techniques to read braille at speeds roughly double that of most human ...

Computer Scientists Invent Simple Method to Speed Cache Sifting

Jan. 24, 2024 — Computer scientists have invented a highly effective, yet incredibly simple, algorithm to decide which items to toss from a web cache to make room for new ...

Researchers Propose a Web 3.0 Streaming Architecture and Marketplace

Jan. 23, 2024 — Web 3.0 is a blockchain technology-based internet paradigm that is transparent and decentralized. But, Web 3.0 streaming services require modifications to the existing service structure due to ...

New Research Guides Mathematical Model-Building for Gene Regulatory Networks

Jan. 23, 2024 — A newly published study provides guidance for building accurate mathematical models for gene regulatory ...

New Deepfake Detector Designed to Be Less Biased

Jan. 17, 2024 — New algorithms close the gap in deepfake detectors' accuracy across races and ...

New Study Pinpoints the Weaknesses in AI

Jan. 11, 2024 — ChatGPT and other solutions built on Machine Learning are surging. But even the most successful algorithms have limitations. Researchers have now proven mathematically that apart from simple problems ...

Scientists Make Sense of Vast Amounts of Molecular Data

Jan. 8, 2024 — Thanks to technological advances, scientists have access to vast amounts of data, but in order to put it to work and draw conclusions, they need to be able to process it. In research recently ...

Artificial Intelligence Can Predict Events in People's Lives

Dec. 18, 2023 — Artificial intelligence can analyze registry data on people's residence, education, income, health and working conditions and, with high accuracy, predict life ...

World's First Logical Quantum Processor

Dec. 8, 2023 — A team has realized a key milestone in the quest for stable, scalable quantum computing. For the first time, the team has created a programmable, logical quantum processor, capable of encoding up to ...

Training Algorithm Breaks Barriers to Deep Physical Neural Networks

Dec. 7, 2023 — Researchers have developed an algorithm to train an analog neural network just as accurately as a digital one, enabling the development of more efficient alternatives to power-hungry deep learning ...

AI Accelerates Problem-Solving in Complex Scenarios

Dec. 5, 2023 — Researchers have developed a new, data-driven machine-learning technique that speeds up software programs used to solve complex optimization problems that can have millions of potential solutions. ...

AI Networks Are More Vulnerable to Malicious Attacks Than Previously Thought

Dec. 4, 2023 — Artificial intelligence tools hold promise for applications ranging from autonomous vehicles to the interpretation of medical images. However, a new study finds these AI tools are more vulnerable ...

Researchers Have Taught an Algorithm to 'Taste'

Dec. 1, 2023 — Incorporating human tastes into artificial intelligence makes it easier for wine buyers thirsting for the right wine. Researchers have shown that AI can accurately predict individual wine ...