Tax preparation is changing fast but AI still has flaws. Here's where AI tax tools shine, where they fail, and how to use them wisely. [...]
Wed, Feb 12, 2025
Source ZDNet – Big Data
The Torras MiniMag Power Bank has the thinnest profile of any battery pack I've tested, and it charges surprisingly fast. [...]
Tue, Feb 11, 2025
Source ZDNet – Big Data
The MIT Stephen A. Schwarzman College of Computing has received substantial support for its striking new headquarters on Vassar Street in Cambridge, Massachusetts. A major gift from Sebastian Man ’79, SM ’80 will be recognized with the naming of a key space in the building, enriching the academic and research [...]
Tue, Feb 11, 2025
Source MIT – AI
During a meeting of class 6.C40/24.C40 (Ethics of Computing), Professor Armando Solar-Lezama poses the same impossible question to his students that he often asks himself in the research he leads with the Computer Assisted Programming Group at MIT:"How do we make sure that a machine does what we want, and only [...]
Tue, Feb 11, 2025
Source MIT – AI
A major challenge in self-powered wearable sensors for health care monitoring is distinguishing different signals when they occur at the same time. Researchers addressed this issue by uncovering a new property of a sensor material, enabling the team to develop a new type of flexible sensor that can accurately measure [...]
Tue, Feb 11, 2025
Source Science Daily
Researchers have discovered that superconducting nanowire photon detectors can also be used as highly accurate particle detectors, and they have found the optimal nanowire size for high detection efficiency. [...]
Tue, Feb 11, 2025
Source Science Daily
Scientists develop a stretchable paper-based generator that creates electricity from water evaporation, offering a flexible power source for wearable health monitors. [...]
Tue, Feb 11, 2025
Source Nanowerk
We often take the internet for granted. It’s an ocean of information at our fingertips—and it simply works. But this system relies on swarms of “crawlers”—bots that roam the web, visit millions of websites every day, and report what they see. This is how Google powers its search engines, how [...]
Tue, Feb 11, 2025
Source Technology Review – AI
Researchers have developed a technology that automatically identifies the necessary precursor materials to synthesize specific target materials. [...]
Tue, Feb 11, 2025
Source Nanowerk
This story originally appeared in The Algorithm, our weekly newsletter on AI. To get stories like this in your inbox first, sign up here. No tech leader before has played the role in a new presidential administration that Elon Musk is playing now. Under his leadership, DOGE has entered offices in a [...]
Tue, Feb 11, 2025
Source Technology Review – AI
Researchers have developed a new AI algorithm, called Torque Clustering, that significantly improves how AI systems independently learn and uncover patterns in data, without human guidance. [...]
Tue, Feb 11, 2025
Source Science Daily – Cybernetics
Amazon's Presidents' Day deals are already live, and we haven't seen these $119 savings on the Apple Watch Ultra 2 since Cyber Week. Don't miss out. [...]
Tue, Feb 11, 2025
Source ZDNet – Big Data
Apple is about to replace the now three-year-old iPhone SE, but there will never be another phone quite like it. [...]
Mon, Feb 10, 2025
Source ZDNet – Big Data
A study showed that chatbots alone outperformed doctors when making nuanced clinical decisions, but when supported by artificial intelligence, doctors performed as well as the chatbots. [...]
Mon, Feb 10, 2025
Source Science Daily – Cybernetics
Euclid, the European Space Agency's dark Universe detective, has made an astonishing discovery -- right in our cosmic backyard. [...]
Mon, Feb 10, 2025
Source Science Daily
Artificial Intelligence of Things (AIoT) is becoming immensely popular because of its widespread applications. In a groundbreaking study, researchers present a new AIoT framework called MSF-Net for accurately recognizing human activities using WiFi signals. The framework utilizes a novel approach that combines different signal processing techniques and a deep learning [...]
Mon, Feb 10, 2025
Source Science Daily – Cybernetics
Scientists have elucidated how hydrogen and carbon monoxide is adsorbed into solids containing a crown-motif structure of platinum and gold. [...]
Mon, Feb 10, 2025
Source Nanowerk
Shreyaa Raghavan’s journey into solving some of the world’s toughest challenges started with a simple love for puzzles. By high school, her knack for problem-solving naturally drew her to computer science. Through her participation in an entrepreneurship and leadership program, she built apps and twice made it to the semifinals [...]
Mon, Feb 10, 2025
Source MIT – AI
Scientists have created an ultra-thin metasurface that generates entangled photons for quantum imaging, offering up to four orders of magnitude more resolution than traditional systems. [...]
Mon, Feb 10, 2025
Source Nanowerk
The ancient Greek philosopher and polymath Aristotle once concluded that the human heart is tri-chambered and that it was the single most important organ in the entire body, governing motion, sensation, and thought.Today, we know that the human heart actually has four chambers and that the brain largely controls motion, [...]
Mon, Feb 10, 2025
Source MIT – AI
An expert in energy technologies uses AI tools to investigate the impact of extreme weather on solar-powered and electrified homes and uncover their unique vulnerabilities and develop insights on how they handle harsh conditions. [...]
Fri, Feb 07, 2025
Source Science Daily
Reports from the US Government Accountability Office on improper federal payments in recent years are circulating on X and elsewhere online, and they seem to be a big influence on Elon Musk’s so-called Department of Government Efficiency and its supporters as the group pursues cost-cutting measures across the federal government.  The [...]
Fri, Feb 07, 2025
Source Technology Review – AI
Enterprise adoption of generative AI technologies has undergone explosive growth in the last two years and counting. Powerful solutions underpinned by this new generation of large language models (LLMs) have been used to accelerate research, automate content creation, and replace clunky chatbots with AI assistants and more sophisticated AI agents [...]
Thu, Feb 06, 2025
Source Technology Review – AI
Researchers developed an automated system to help programmers increase the efficiency of their deep learning algorithms by simultaneously leveraging two types of redundancy in complex data structures: sparsity and symmetry. [...]
Mon, Feb 03, 2025
Source Science Daily – Cybernetics
This shows a child and robot.
A new AI model, based on the PV-RNN framework, learns to generalize language and actions in a manner similar to toddlers by integrating vision, proprioception, and language instructions. Unlike large language models (LLMs) that rely on vast datasets, this system uses embodied interactions to achieve compositionality while requiring less data [...]
Thu, Jan 23, 2025
Source Neuroscience News – Deep Learning
This shows London streets and a brain.
A study reveals that London taxi drivers prioritize complex and distant junctions during their initial "offline thinking" phase when planning routes, rather than sequentially considering streets. This efficient, intuitive strategy leverages spatial awareness and contrasts with AI algorithms, which typically follow step-by-step approaches. [...]
Thu, Jan 23, 2025
Source Neuroscience News – Deep Learning