Here"s Why Bionic Reading Is Going Viral
Bionic Reading will allow readers to consume content very quickly and still retain all the information they need. Bionic Reading will allow readers to consume conten.....»»
High School Students Need More Sleep and Later School Start Times
After reading a Scientific American editorial on sleep and school start times, students and their teacher wrote to the editors about their experiences. Their district listened, and school will start later next year.....»»
IT employee piggybacked on cyberattack for personal gain
A 28-year-old former IT employee of an Oxford-based company has been convicted of blackmailing his employer and unauthorized access to a computer with intent to commit other offences, after pleading guilty during a hearing at Reading Crown Court, Eng.....»»
Android Reading mode just got a lot more accessible
Google has announced an update for its Reading mode app that includes support for background playback support. Back in December last year, Google announced the Reading mode app. This is an app designed with accessibility in mind, where it.....»»
How the technology behind ChatGPT could make mind-reading a reality
On a recent Sunday morning, I found myself in a pair of ill-fitting scrubs, lying flat on my back in the claustrophobic confines of an fMRI machine at a research facility in Austin, Texas. "The things I do for television," I thought......»»
Fake Pentagon “explosion” photo sows confusion on Twitter
Incident shows weakness of Twitter's verification system, speed of misinformation. Enlarge / A fake AI-generated image of an "explosion" near the Pentagon that went viral on Twitter. (credit: Twitter) On Monday, a tweete.....»»
Hypersensitive robot hand is eerily human in how it can feel things
Getting it to work required integrating multiple types of machine learning. Enlarge (credit: Columbia University ROAM Lab) From bionic limbs to sentient androids, robotic entities in science fiction blur the boundaries b.....»»
Kia and Hyundai agree to $200M settlement for making cars viral theft targets
2011-2022 model owners may be paid for damages, towing, rentals, other costs. Enlarge / We used this image of an Ars staffer's stolen Hyundai to illustrate how common the thefts were in February 2022. Since then, one of this auth.....»»
Study: Information about climate-induced migration spurs negative attitudes about immigrants
Reading about climate-induced immigration prompted negative, nativist attitudes among people toward the affected migrants—an unintended, perhaps even paradoxical effect of many delivering the original messages, according to researchers at the Unive.....»»
Viral videos about private moments may affect offline relationships
When individuals share videos about surprise reunions with their intimate partners on the internet, the reaction from viewers may not be the roses and unicorns the posters expected. Viewers' responses to shared videos have the potential to shape offl.....»»
Reading comprehension not worsened by noise, study finds
Researchers of the HSE Centre for Language and Brain have investigated the impact of both auditory and visual noise on semantic processing during reading to determine if it results in a more superficial reading style that emphasizes the meanings of i.....»»
Simulation tools drive the new generation of therapies based on gene silencing
Proteins are large, complex molecules that play many critical roles in the body and are produced following the instructions encoded in DNA. By reading their DNA letters, cells produce an intermediate RNA molecule that will give rise to the correspond.....»»
Reading chemicals inside the brain with an aptamer/microelectronic fiber combination
A research group has developed a neural device that detects specific neurotransmitters in the brain with high sensitivity and selectivity by combining multifunctional fibers and DNA molecular probes. Details of the research were published in the jour.....»»
Reading among England"s primary children not affected by pandemic: New report
Reading among 9–10-year-olds in England has remained consistent despite the COVID-19 pandemic, according to research released today from Oxford University's Department of Education......»»
Mozilla’s Pocket is getting some quality of life upgrades
If you use Mozilla’s Pocket app to save articles for reading later, then this upcoming update is one you’ll want to keep an eye out for. While apps like Pinterest are a great way to save images and interesting stuff you might find onl.....»»
Mr. ChatGPT goes to Washington: OpenAI CEO Sam Altman set to testify before Congress
OpenAI CEO Sam Altman is set to testify before a Senate Judiciary subcommittee on Tuesday after the viral success of ChatGPT, his company's chatbot tool, renewed an arms race over artificial intelligence and sparked concerns from some lawmakers about.....»»
Apple has a stranglehold on the TSMC 3nm chip supply in 2023
Apple has reserved nearly all of TSMC's 3-nanometer process chip production for upcoming iPhone, Mac, and iPad models with the A17 Bionic and Apple Silicon M3 chips.Apple books nearly all of TSMC's 3nm processAs early as December 2020, reports emerge.....»»
Anthropic’s Claude AI can now digest an entire book like The Great Gatsby in seconds
Claude's input memory grows to 75,000 words, beating GPT-4 by a wide margin. Enlarge / An AI-generated image of a robot reading a book. (credit: Benj Edwards / Stable Diffusion) On Thursday, AI company Anthropic announce.....»»
You need to read this free Marvel’s Spider-Man 2 prequel comic
Make the wait for Marvel's Spider-Man 2 a little less painful by reading this free prequel comic......»»
Gene-edited calf may reduce reliance on antimicrobials against cattle disease
Cattle worldwide face major health threats from a highly infectious viral disease that decades of vaccinations and other precautions have failed to contain. Federal, private-sector and University of Nebraska-Lincoln scientists are collaborating on a.....»»
Viruses could reshuffle the carbon cycle in a warming world
Microbes play important roles in ecosystems, and these roles are changing with global warming. Scientists also now know that most types of microbes are infected by viruses, but they know relatively little about how these viral infections could change.....»»