Conceptual image illustrating how a machine-learning model trained on data constructed through multimodal literature mining and physical knowledge explores the vast compositional space of lead-free dielectrics and identifies candidate materials for experimental validation. Credit: Seoul…
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For the past five years, security researcher Matt Burch has immersed himself in the esoteric and high-stakes world of ATM security, in which small software flaws can sometimes expose cold, hard cash. As Burch has…
A civil tribunal in Canada has ordered Air Canada to pay for a mistake made by a customer-service chatbot, highlighting the need for companies to better train and monitor their artificial intelligence (AI) tools. British…
Conceptual illustration of the study. A nanoscale polymer film deposited on a copper tube by initiated chemical vapor deposition (iCVD) promotes droplet nucleation during water vapor condensation and facilitates the rapid removal of the resulting…
On Chinese social media, people have also reported experiencing variations of the scam involving other corporate software apps, including Webex, a video conferencing platform owned by Cisco, and Cliq, a workplace communication app owned by…
You may have noticed that Flock Safety’s automatic license plate reader cameras—and the cops who misuse them—are getting a lot of coverage lately. This week, WIRED found a particularly wild case: A cop in Alpharetta,…
Visualization of broadband flow stabilization by a super-resonant coiled phononic subsurface. Credit: Hussein et al./ CU Boulder New phononic subsurface designs could help control aircraft turbulence more broadly and predictably without reshaping the vehicle. At…
In recent months, there has been a surge in reports of police officers misusing automatic license plate readers (ALPRs) sold by Flock Safety to stalk former romantic partners—but details about these incidents are often scarce….
Alpharetta, a prosperous suburb of Atlanta, Georgia, is home to about 67,000 people, served by about 120 local police officers. It also hosts several dozen cameras sold by Flock Safety, the increasingly controversial surveillance company…
A new “markup” feature lets users “visually communicate” edits to Firefly by drawing onto an image, indicating areas to recolor, for instance. This makes it easier to direct the AI model compared to text prompts….
