Google Moves to Block Invasive Spanish Spyware Framework
The Heliconia hacking tool exploited vulnerabilities in Chrome, Windows Defender, and Firefox, according to company security researchers.
San Francisco’s Killer Police Robots Threaten the City’s Most Vulnerable
Law enforcement says that in some scenarios a lethal robot is the only way to protect public safety. Experts say the policy will harm communities of color.
Why China Is Still Stuck in a Zero-Covid Nightmare
Protesters are calling for China to ease restrictions most nations have already ditched. But the country faces a fraught path toward normalcy.
Electric Vehicles Cut US Gas Consumption by a Measly 0.54%
A new report shows that national gasoline usage barely changed in 2021, despite increasing EV adoption.
Pliocene-Like Monsoons Are Returning to the American Southwest
As carbon concentrations rise, conditions are becoming more like they were 3 million years ago, when the area was wetter and the rain was heavier.
Making ‘transport’ robots smarter
Imagine a team of humans and robots working together to process online orders — real-life workers strategically positioned among their automated coworkers who are moving intelligently back and forth in a warehouse space, picking items for shipping to the customer. This could become a reality sooner than later, thanks to researchers who are working to …
Caregiving simulator advances research in assistive robotics
Caregiving robots would be transformative for people with disabilities and their caretakers, but few research groups are working in this space. A new robotic simulation platform developed by Cornell researchers may help more people enter the field.
Sampling and pipelining method speeds up deep learning on large graphs
Graphs, a potentially extensive web of nodes connected by edges, can be used to express and interrogate relationships between data, like social connections, financial transactions, traffic, energy grids, and molecular interactions. As researchers collect more data and build out these graphical pictures, researchers will need faster and more efficient methods, as well as more computational …
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Basketball study automates patterns of play to compare teams’ performance
New analysis of elite women’s basketball automatically pinpoints a team’s chances of high or low scoring plays despite the ball’s trajectory looking the same, in research developed by QUT data scientists.
Better Language Models Without Massive Compute
Posted by Jason Wei and Yi Tay, Research Scientists, Google Research, Brain Team In recent years, language models (LMs) have become more prominent in natural language processing (NLP) research and are also becoming increasingly impactful in practice. Scaling up LMs has been shown to improve performance across a range of NLP tasks. For instance, scaling …