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Graphene 'artificial skin' gives robots an insanely human-like touch

A wave of recent research has brought robotic touch sensitivity closer to human fingertips than ever before, driven by graphene-based composites and machine learning that let artificial skins detect ...

Big Tech Promises to Pay for AI Data Center Power, but Who Will Enforce It?

Microsoft, Google, Amazon, Meta and others signed a nonbinding pledge agreeing to cover the cost of powering AI data centers.
Biometric Update

Biometrics, big data and the new counterintelligence battlefield

The digital infrastructure at the core of U.S. immigration enforcement has quietly become a foreign counterintelligence vulnerability.
cybernews

8.7 billion records spilled: Inside the massive Chinese data leak

Cybernews researchers discovered 8.7 billion exposed Chinese records on an unsecured Elasticsearch cluster, one of history's largest data leaks. The leaked data includes national ID numbers, home ...
IEEE

Enhancing Data Collection in Heterogenous Wireless Sensor Networks: A Novel Tree-Structured Genetic Algorithm Approach

Abstract: Heterogenous Wireless Sensor Networks (HWSNs) are cost-effective solutions to monitor the environment. These networks face limited battery as a critical challenge. Traditionally, ...
CNBC

Data centers are concentrated in these states. Here's what's happening to electricity prices

Electricity prices are surging, voters are growing angry, and the artificial intelligence industry's data centers are increasingly a target for blame with U.S. mid-term elections on the horizon.
IEEE

A Simulation-Data-Driven Tolerance and Structure Integrated Design Method for Planar Arrays

Abstract: Planar arrays are composed of large numbers of discrete elements. The position errors of these elements are inevitable and strongly influence the electrical performance. Based on the ...
NPR

Argentina is an example of what happens when a country manipulates inflation data

Trump fired the Bureau of Labor Statistics head. In Argentina, the government manipulated the inflation rate. Economists went rogue to calculate the real rate, and people lost trust in the numbers.
Wall Street Journal

What Happens When Politicians Meddle With Economic Data: Argentina’s Example

President Trump fired the head of the BLS, claiming manipulated jobs numbers after a report of slowed hiring. While revisions were more dramatic than usual, these numbers are always revised. WSJ ...
MIT Technology Review

A major AI training data set contains millions of examples of personal data

Personally identifiable information has been found in DataComp CommonPool, one of the largest open-source data sets used to train image generation models. Millions of images of passports, credit cards ...
BioProcess International

Studying Protein Higher-Order Structure and Immunogenicity Correlation: with Protein Conformational Array and Cytokine-Panel Analyses

Immunogenicity refers to a biopharmaceutical’s ability to generate an immune response upon administration. It is a major concern in biologics development because it can cause adverse events in ...