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Month: October 2024

Internet

Age assurance online needs to be child rights-respecting, new study says

October 28, 2024 Tech Xplore

A range of different age checks is needed to protect children—but also to ensure they can take advantage of positive opportunities online, a new study says.This article was originally published on this website.

Internet

Google Flights introduces new feature to find cheaper airfares

October 28, 2024 Tech Xplore

Just in time for the holiday travel frenzy, Google Flights is introducing a new feature designed to help users obtain the lowest airline ticket prices available.This article was originally published on this website.

Math

High school students present five new ways of proving Pythagoras’ Theorem via trigonometry

October 28, 2024 Phys Org

In 2022, U.S. high school students Calcea Johnson and Ne’Kiya Jackson astonished teachers when they discovered a new way to prove Pythagoras’ theorem using trigonometry after entering a competition at their local high school. As […]

Math

From fireflies to drones: Researchers uncover strategy for synchronization efficiency

October 25, 2024 Phys Org

Researchers from The University of New Mexico School of Engineering looked to the natural world to explain how synchronized systems can work more efficiently and made a significant discovery. Their results were published in the […]

Internet

DIY musicians: How digital ‘bedroom pop’ has transformed the music industry

October 24, 2024 Tech Xplore

The ever-advancing technologies of our digital age have transformed many industries, including—and perhaps especially—music. One of the most significant shifts has been the rise of DIY artists. These independent musicians take on roles traditionally held […]

Computers

OpenAI unveils sCM, a new model that generates video media 50 times faster than current diffusion models

October 24, 2024 Tech Xplore

Two experts with the OpenAI team have developed a new kind of continuous-time consistency model (sCM) that they claim can generate video media 50 times faster than models currently in use. Cheng Lu and Yang […]

Computers

Solving computationally hard problems with 3D integrated photonics

October 23, 2024 Tech Xplore

As technology advances, the limitations of conventional electronic computers are becoming increasingly apparent, especially when tackling complex computational challenges. NP-complete problems, which grow exponentially with size, represent some of the toughest puzzles in computer science. […]

Computers

New tool makes songs unlearnable to generative AI

October 23, 2024 Tech Xplore

Nearly 200 years after Beethoven’s death, a team of musicians and computer scientists created a generative artificial intelligence (AI) that completed his Tenth Symphony so convincingly that music scholars could not differentiate the music originating […]

Computers

Sampling algorithm can ‘watermark’ AI-generated text to show where it came from

October 23, 2024 Tech Xplore

A tool that can watermark text generated by large language models, improving the ability for it to identify and trace synthetic content, is described in Nature this week.This article was originally published on this website.

Math

New theory identifies how physics principle of ‘rattling’ relates to self-organization

October 23, 2024 Phys Org

If you’ve ever watched a large flock of birds on the wing, moving across the sky like a cloud with various shapes and directional changes appearing from seeming chaos, or the maneuvers of an ant […]

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