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Month: July 2025

Computers

PhaseFieldX: An open-source tool for simulating material fracture and fatigue

July 18, 2025 Tech Xplore

The Python package PhaseFieldX, developed by researcher Miguel Castillón at IMDEA Materials Institute, has been published in the Journal of Open Source Software (JOSS) in a paper titled “PhaseFieldX: An Open-Source Framework for Advanced Phase-Field […]

Computers

Tech giants warn window to monitor AI reasoning is closing, urge action

July 17, 2025 Tech Xplore

Artificial intelligence is advancing at a dizzying speed. Like many new technologies, it offers significant benefits but also poses safety risks. Recognizing the potential dangers, leading researchers from Google DeepMind, OpenAI, Meta, Anthropic and a […]

Computers

AI ‘coach’ helps language models choose between text and code to solve problems

July 17, 2025 Tech Xplore

Large language models (LLMs) excel at using textual reasoning to understand the context of a document and provide a logical answer about its contents. But these same LLMs often struggle to correctly answer even the […]

Computers

AI that thinks like us? Researchers unveil new model to predict human behavior

July 15, 2025 Tech Xplore

Imagine a self-driving car navigating downtown traffic. To avoid a collision, it must judge whether the pedestrian at the corner is about to cross. Or consider an investment algorithm trading stocks—it needs to anticipate how […]

Internet

Nextdoor social site, looking for a revival, pins hopes on partnership with local news providers

July 15, 2025 Tech Xplore

Nextdoor, the social media site that aims to create connections among neighbors, is trying to shake off an uneven past and a nagging sense it is being underutilized. How? It is turning to professional journalists […]

Internet

Study breaches ‘The Great Firewall’ to look at Chinese censorship

July 15, 2025 Tech Xplore

People have nicknamed the security system that monitors and controls internet traffic entering and leaving China “The Great Firewall of China.”This article was originally published on this website.

Internet

Five EU states to test age-check app to protect children online

July 14, 2025 Tech Xplore

Five EU countries including France will test an app aimed at preventing children from accessing harmful content online by checking users’ ages, the European Commission said Monday.This article was originally published on this website.

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Internet

How Eurostack could offer Canada a route to digital independence from the United States

July 14, 2025 Tech Xplore

The contemporary internet has been with us since roughly 1995. Its current underlying economic model—surveillance capitalism—began in the early 2000s, when Google and then Facebook realized how much our personal information and online behavior revealed […]

Computers

Amazon’s AI assistant struggles with diverse dialects, study finds

July 14, 2025 Tech Xplore

A new Cornell study has revealed that Amazon’s AI shopping assistant, Rufus, gives vague or incorrect responses to users writing in some English dialects, such as African American English (AAE), especially when prompts contain typos.This […]

Computers

The forgotten 80-year-old machine that shaped the internet—and could help us survive AI

July 14, 2025 Tech Xplore

Many years ago, long before the internet or artificial intelligence, an American engineer called Vannevar Bush was trying to solve a problem. He could see how difficult it had become for professionals to research anything, […]

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