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Anthropic, Microsoft announce new AI data center projects as industry’s construction push continues

Artificial intelligence company Anthropic announced a $50 billion investment in computing infrastructure on Wednesday that will include new data centers in Texas and New York.This post was originally published on this site

Rubber electronics are first to offer complementary metal–oxide–semiconductor functionality

Researcher Cunjiang Yu and his research team, including several of his former students, have announced a significant milestone in materials and electronics engineering: the creation of what they call “rubbery CMOS,” which provides the same […]

Mass shootings spur local voter turnout but don’t sway presidential vote choices, study finds

Mass shootings can spur higher voter turnout in nearby communities, but the effect is highly localized and doesn’t appear to change how people vote for president, according to new findings from researchers at the University […]

When AI draws our words: Study finds image generators fail basic instructions despite aesthetic success

Can we really trust artificial intelligence to illustrate our ideas? A team of scientists has examined the capabilities of Midjourney and DALL·E—two Generative Artificial Intelligence (GAI) software programs—to produce images from simple sentences. The verdict […]

What did video kill? Study shows engagement-optimized algorithms may reinforce existing beliefs

A systematic review of academic research in the International Journal of Web Based Communities has looked at the relationship between the leading online video content sites and its recommendation system and how this might affect […]

Feeling is believing: Making prosthetic limbs and virtual reality feel more real

Virtual reality and prosthetics are advancing rapidly thanks to technological innovations, but both are still missing one key element—a sense of touch, also known as haptic feedback.This post was originally published on this site

New technologies like AI come with big claims. The scientific concept of validity can help cut through the hype

Technological innovations can seem relentless. In computing, some have proclaimed that “a year in machine learning is a century in any other field.” But how do you know whether those advancements are hype or reality?This […]

How China’s latest aircraft carrier will challenge western maritime dominance

China’s new Fujian aircraft carrier, unveiled recently by President Xi Jinping with great fanfare, has been hailed by Chinese state media as a major milestone in the country’s naval modernization program and a key development […]

Morphing 3D-printed structures from flat to curved—in space

Because it’s costly and cumbersome to transport large structures such as satellite dishes into space, aerospace Ph.D. student Ivan Wu and his advisor, Jeff Baur, at The Grainger College of Engineering, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, […]

Scientists just built a 1-kilometer resolution digital twin of Earth

Weather forecasting is notoriously wonky—climate modeling even more so. But their slowly increasing ability to predict what the natural world will throw at us humans is largely thanks to two things—better models and increased computing […]