A Study at the Center of the Abortion Pill Battle Was Just Retracted
A scientific publisher found serious flaws in a paper that links the medication mifepristone to more emergency room visits.
A deep reinforcement learning approach to enhance autonomous robotic grasping and assembly
Semi-autonomous and autonomous robots are being introduced in a growing number of real-world environments, including industrial settings. Industrial robots could speed up the manufacturing of various products by assisting human workers with basic tasks and lightening their workload.
Starship Technologies raises $90M for robot delivery service
Starship Technologies, a player in autonomous delivery services, has raised $90 million in funding for its delivery robots.Read More
How symmetry can come to the aid of machine learning
Behrooz Tahmasebi—an MIT Ph.D. student in the Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science (EECS) and an affiliate of the Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory (CSAIL)—was taking a mathematics course on differential equations in late 2021 when a glimmer of inspiration struck. In that class, he learned for the first time about Weyl’s law, …
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11 Best Smart Bulbs (2024): Lamp Bulbs, Ambient, Color, Etc
An internet-connected light bulb is one of the easiest way to start building a smarter home.
The US Has Big Plans for Wind Energy—but an Obscure 1920s Law Is Getting in the Way
The Biden administration aims to deploy offshore wind turbines capable of generating 30 gigawatts of power by 2030. With less than a decade to go, the country remains woefully behind target.
OpenAI launches ChatGPT app for Apple Vision Pro
OpenAI launches ChatGPT, a multimodal AI app that lets users chat with text, images, and voice on the Apple Vision Pro, the augmented reality headset powered by visionOS.Read More
Apple Quadrupled Its Autonomous Driving Testing Miles Last Year
Government records show Apple’s secretive auto division almost quadrupled its self-driving miles in 2023.
A sleeker facial recognition technology tested on Michelangelo’s David
Many people are familiar with facial recognition systems that unlock smartphones and game systems or allow access to our bank accounts online. But the current technology can require boxy projectors and lenses. Now, researchers report on a sleeker 3D surface imaging system with flatter, simplified optics. In proof-of-concept demonstrations, the new system recognized the face …
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A camera-based anti-facial recognition technique
Facial recognition systems, computational tools that can recognize individuals in images or video footage, are now widely employed worldwide. Some users and developers, however, have raised privacy-related concerns, as by definition facial recognition techniques rely on images that capture people’s faces. It is possible to use facial recognition techniques to identify the person by his/her …
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