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    Just believing that an AI is helping boosts your performance

    New research suggests that people perform better if they think they have an AI assistant – even when they’ve been told it’s unreliable and won’t help them.
    13-May-2024 6:05 AM EDT Add to Favorites

    Scientists harness the wind as a tool to move objects

    Researchers have developed a technique to move objects around with a jet of wind. The new approach makes it possible to manipulate objects at a distance and could be integrated into robots to give machines ethereal fingers.
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    Researchers develop a new way to instruct dance in Virtual Reality

    Virtual reality dance made easier with crowd wave technique. Open source code can be downloaded for Quest 2 and 3
    29-Apr-2024 6:05 AM EDT Add to Favorites

    Teaching a computer to type like a human

    A new typing model simulates the typing process instead of just predicting words
    18-Apr-2024 10:05 AM EDT Add to Favorites

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    Understanding climate warming impacts on carbon release from the tundra

    The warming climate shifts the dynamics of tundra environments and makes them release trapped carbon, according to a new study published in Nature. These changes could transform tundras from carbon sinks into a carbon source, exacerbating the...
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    Physicists explain—and eliminate—unknown force dragging against water droplets on superhydrophobic surfaces

    Aalto University researchers adapt a novel force measurement technique to uncover the previously unidentified physics at play at the thin air-film gap between water droplets and superhydrophobic surfaces.
    16-Apr-2024 3:25 AM EDT Add to Favorites

    New method of measuring qubits promises ease of scalability in a microscopic package

    The path to quantum supremacy is made challenging by the issues associated with scaling up the number of qubits. One key problem is the way that qubits are measured.
    8-Apr-2024 9:05 AM EDT Add to Favorites

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    Why won’t some people use a smartphone? And is that difficult?

    Adjustments and flexibility are necessary to live without a smartphone
    9-Apr-2024 7:05 AM EDT Add to Favorites


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