Archive: May 2018

A newly developed metasurface-based silicon antireflective coating combines rectangular and cylindrical meta-atom geometries. The metasurface achieves just 5% reflection, compared to approximately 50% reflection with an unstructured silicon solar cell. Credit: Advanced Photonics Nexus (2025). DOI: 10.1117/1.APN.4.3.036009 Converting sunlight into electricity is the task of photovoltaic solar cells, but nearly half the light that reaches a flat silicon sola

Everything about Artificial Intelligence view more Rene Haas, CEO of Arm Holdings, stated in an interview with the BBC that artificial intelligence (AI) could help find a cure for cancer that would not be discovered by humans during their lifetimes. According to the executive, advancements in computers and the ability to feed models with more data should allow solving problems currently considered too complex. Haas made the statements on the podcast Big Bo

if ( !emtpy($headline_subheadline ) ) : ?> Pizza Bot is a self-hosted open-source interface for interacting with AI agents asynchronously that AWS hopes will help enterprises manage longer-running agent tasks. Analysts say integration and governance requirements could hamper its adoption. endif; ?> Credit: ReaLiia / Shutterstock Artificial IntelligenceAmazon Web ServicesIaaSCloud ComputingProductivity Software

An example of mapping urban sentiment hotspots as visualized through an AI-drive framework. Credit: Jayedi Aman When Jayedi Aman looks at a city, he notices more than just its buildings and streets—he considers how people move through and connect with those spaces. Aman, an assistant professor of architectural studies at the University of Missouri, suggests that the future design of cities may be guided as much by human experience as by physical materials.

A machine learning algorithm identified piles of debris large enough to contain bodies in an aerial image of a flood aftermath. Credit: Center for Robot-Assisted Search and Rescue and University of Maryland For search and rescue, AI is not more accurate than humans, but it is far faster. Recent successes in applying computer vision and machine learning to drone imagery for rapidly determining building and road damage after hurricanes or shifting wildfire l

You know the old adage: Those who can, do; those who can’t, rent their space to those who can. According to a report from Bloomberg, Meta is considering getting into the cloud computing business, renting out its infrastructure to other companies that want access to computing power for their AI operations, as the company continues to struggle to get its own model to compete with the frontier labs. Per Bloomberg, Meta is exploring two primary potential arran

@mannthatsreal/ @DrClownPhD via X OpenAI is capitalizing on bad taste with its new text-to-video generator, Sora 2. The new app allows users to share AI-generated videos on a TikTok-style feed. If you hoped that people would be using it to create great art, prepare to be disappointed — and nowhere is that failure clearer than in videos that resurrect sloppified versions of deceased celebrities. We’ve seen videos of Michael Jackson rapping, for instance, as

Illustration by Tag Hartman-Simkins / Futurism. Source: Christophe Gateau / picture alliance via Getty Images ; Kevin Dietsch / Getty Images; Kimberly White / Getty Images for TechCrunch Rejoice, netizens of flesh and blood, for only a little over half of all new articles on the internet are AI-generated, according to a new report highlighted in Axios. Believe it or not, this is kind of good news. Since the public launch of ChatGPT in November 2022, we’ve

Illustration by Tag Hartman-Simkins / Futurism. Source: Getty Images When it comes to inclusion, artificial intelligence doesn’t have the best track record. As vast algorithms trained on troves of data scraped from the internet, AI models are inherently predisposed to reproducing human social biases. It’s no surprise, then, that AI has a real knack for discrimination, often exacerbating prejudice on the basis of race, gender, and sexuality. And as one woma

Eric Muller The University of North Carolina School of Law held an unusual mock trial on Friday. Looming over the proceedings even more prominently than the judge running the show were three tall digital displays, sticking out with their glossy finishes amid the courtroom’s sea of wood paneling. Each screen represented a different AI chatbot: OpenAI’s ChatGPT, xAI’s Grok, and Anthropic’s Claude. These AIs’ role? As the “jurors” who would determine the fate

Synthetic identities leave US lenders with $2.4 billion in fraud exposure Criminals are exploiting established customer accounts and familiar brands to steal money and personal information, according to TransUnion’s Fraud in the Age of Continuous Trust report. Eighty-one percent of suspected digital fraud in its network during the first half of 2026 occurred during account logins and financial transactions, highlighting risks that persist throughout a cust

Credit: Unsplash/CC0 Public Domain Suyun Ham can't take his eyes off a scanner. "Lower the sensors a little bit more," Ham urges an assistant. Then a barrage of data floods in, filling computer screens for a diagnosis. But Ham isn't a medical doctor. Nor is his "patient" a living creature. An engineering professor from the University of Texas at Arlington, he is experimenting with a novel approach in bridge inspection. Ham's mobile-scanning system is part

Overview of ISM. An attacker’s infiltration miners find three infiltration blocks IB1, IB2, and IB3 in the victim pool in three different cases, respectively. Only IB3 leads to an ISM block ISMB before others find a block. Meanwhile, IB1 wins while IB2 loses in the corresponding intentional forks against the others’ blocks. Credit: Proceedings of the 20th ACM Asia Conference on Computer and Communications Security (2025). DOI: 10.1145/3708821.3736191 A new