Lots of People Make Money on Fanfic. Just Not the Authors
Next year, SenLinYu’s Harry Potter fic Manacled will disappear from Archive of Our Own. They don’t want to take it down, but it’s the only way to keep others from profiting off of the work.
A novel method for easy and quick fabrication of biomimetic robots with life-like movement
Ultraviolet-laser processing is a promising technique for developing intricate microstructures, enabling complex alignment of muscle cells, required for building life-like biohybrid actuators. Compared to traditional complex methods, this innovative technique enables easy and quick fabrication of microstructures with intricate patterns for achieving different muscle cell arrangements, paving the way for biohybrid actuators capable of complex, …
Data leaks can sink machine learning models
When developing machine learning models to find patterns in data, researchers across fields typically use separate data sets for model training and testing, which allows them to measure how well their trained models do with new, unseen data. But, due to human error, that line sometimes is inadvertently blurred and data used to test how …
A Major ‘Stardew Valley’ Update Is Coming in March
A massive update to the wildly popular farm life sim has an official release date. Here’s when it’ll arrive and what you can expect from it.
AI among us: Social media users struggle to identify AI bots during political discourse
Artificial intelligence bots have already permeated social media. But can users tell who is human and who is not?
The US Supreme Court Holds the Future of the Internet in Its Hands
If the court backs provocative laws from Texas and Florida that limit social platforms’ ability to moderate content online, life could become radically different.
AI accelerates process design for 3D printing metal alloys
In order to successfully 3D-print a metal part to the exacting specifications that many in industry demand, process parameters—including printing speed, laser power, and layer thickness of the deposited material—must all be optimized.
From deepfakes to digital candidates: AI’s political play
We may see the ‘candidacy’ of an AI-created persona in coming elections. Indeed, the technology to create such deepfakes already exists.Read More
Why AI can (and should) lead to a renaissance in the humanities
AI makes the humanities critically important — and not just because science hasn’t yet provided answers to classic philosophical questions.Read More
A Vending Machine Error Revealed Secret Face Recognition Tech
A student investigation at the University of Waterloo uncovered a system that scanned countless undergrads without consent.