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AI robots fill in for weed killers and farm hands
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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...

Chatbots are on the rise, but customers still trust human agents more
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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,...

Police in Brazil arrest a suspect over 0M banking hack
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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...

Pilot program integrates AI-generated notes with human community notes on X platform
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Pilot program integrates AI-generated notes with human community notes on X platform

An expansion of the Community Notes pipeline from “all-human” to a hybrid “human-LLM” model. Today (top): Human note writers draft proposed notes in...

Robotic probe quickly measures semiconductor properties to accelerate solar panel development
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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....

Playing games with robots makes people see them as more humanlike
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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...

Open-source engine enables high-performance data processing for Internet of Things devices
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Open-source engine enables high-performance data processing for Internet of Things devices

Credit: CC0 Public Domain The Berlin Institute for the Foundations of Learning and Data (BIFOLD) announces the open-source release of NebulaStream, a next-generation...

3D-printed magnetoelastic smart pen may help diagnose Parkinson’s
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3D-printed magnetoelastic smart pen may help diagnose Parkinson’s

A schematic showing the structure of the smart pen used to capture handwriting signals for Parkinson’s diagnostics. Credit: Jun Chen Lab/UCLA Every year,...

Researcher develops ‘SpeechSSM,’ opening up possibilities for a 24-hour AI voice assistant
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Researcher develops ‘SpeechSSM,’ opening up possibilities for a 24-hour AI voice assistant

Windowing strategy for (a) tokenizing and (b) decoding long-form speech to enable extrapolation in decoding lengths. Credit: arXiv (2024). DOI: 10.48550/arxiv.2412.18603 Recently, spoken...