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Month: August 2025

Internet

AI web browser assistants raise serious privacy concerns

August 13, 2025 Tech Xplore

Popular generative AI web browser assistants are collecting and sharing sensitive user data, such as medical records and social security numbers, without adequate safeguards, finds a new study led by researchers from UCL and Mediterranea […]

Computers

Exposing how automation apps can spy—and how to detect it

August 12, 2025 Tech Xplore

A team of University of Wisconsin-Madison engineers and computer scientists has identified vulnerabilities in popular automation apps that can make it easy for an abuser to stalk individuals, track their cellphone activity, or even control […]

Computers

Robots gain new function: Algorithm automatically recognizes sensors and their mathematical modeling

August 12, 2025 Tech Xplore

Modern robotic systems—in drones or autonomous vehicles, for example—use a variety of sensors, ranging from cameras and accelerometers to GPS modules. To date, their correct integration has required expert knowledge and time-consuming calibration.This article was […]

Technology

Tiny robots use sound to self-organize into intelligent groups

August 12, 2025 Tech Xplore

Animals like bats, whales and insects have long used acoustic signals for communication and navigation. Now, an international team of scientists has taken a page from nature’s playbook to model micro-sized robots that use sound […]

Computers

More cameras, more problems? Why deep learning still struggles with 3D human sensing

August 12, 2025 Tech Xplore

Accurately estimating human pose was among the first tasks addressed by deep learning. Early models like OpenPose focused on localizing human joints as 2D keypoints in image coordinates. Later, Google came up with Mediapipe, followed […]

Technology

Ultrafast untethered levitation device offers frictionless design for omni-directional transport

August 12, 2025 Tech Xplore

Advances in technology have led to the miniaturization of many mechanical, electronic, chemical and biomedical products, and with that, an evolution in the way these tiny components and parts are transported is necessary to follow. […]

Technology

Delivery drones may soon take off in the US. Here’s why

August 12, 2025 Tech Xplore

Delivery drones are so fast they can zip a pint of ice cream to a customer’s driveway before it melts.This article was originally published on this website.

Technology

Brain cells learn faster than machine learning, research reveals

August 12, 2025 Tech Xplore

Researchers have demonstrated that brain cells learn faster and carry out complex networking more effectively than machine learning by comparing how both a Synthetic Biological Intelligence (SBI) system known as “DishBrain” and state-of-the-art RL (reinforcement […]

Internet

AI porn victims see Hong Kong unprepared for threat

August 12, 2025 Tech Xplore

For Hong Kong law student “C,” AI-made pornography was a distant danger until a university classmate created graphic images of her and multiple other women.This article was originally published on this website.

Technology

Carbon-fiber smart plastic: Self-healing, shape-shifting and stronger than steel

August 11, 2025 Tech Xplore

Aerospace engineering and materials science researchers at Texas A&M University have uncovered new properties of an ultra-durable, recyclable, smart plastic—paving the way for transformative applications in the defense, aerospace and automotive industries.This article was originally […]

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