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How physics can improve image-generating AI
The Economist· 5 days agoA team of physicists and computer scientists at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) has been taking inspiration from the laws of nature to...
STUDENT VOICE: Getting into a top college is stressful, unfair and overrated - The Hechinger Report
The Hechinger Report· 21 hours agoOne day, I remember taking it upon myself to try to give them the best of everything by chasing...
Artificial intelligence looks at shadows to see what's hidden from view
Boing Boing· 5 days agoResearchers from MIT and Meta have demonstrated a computer vision system that analyzes shadows to...
ChatGPT is being used to scan job applications—and it's penalizing candidates with disabilities
The Daily Dot· 5 hours agoResearch has found that artificial intelligence is biased against those with marginalized...
Making Our New AI Programs Run Better
Forbes· 21 hours agoIn other words, people tend to think of these systems as only creative tools, and put aside all of the technical requirements that go into running any sort of program, including something that ...
Could we launch resources from the moon with electromagnetic railguns?
Space via Yahoo News· 14 hours agoElectromagnetic launches of material from the lunar surface can be more efficient than conventional...
Zero laptops per child
Politico· 6 days agoInitiatives like “One Laptop per Child,” the brainchild of MIT Media Lab founder Nicholas Negroponte, popularized the idea that to instill digital...
Trump Makes Surprising Pro-Immigrant Pledge — But Campaign Walks It Back
HuffPost via Yahoo News· 3 days agoTrump said it’s “so sad” when the country surrenders talent from Harvard University and MIT or...
Slashdot Asks: What Do You Remember About the Web in 1994? - Slashdot
Slashdot· 19 hours agoMany point to September '93, when AOL users first flooded Usenet. According to an MIT study, at the start of 1994, there were just 623 web servers. By year's end, it was estimated ...
TikTok in denial as US 'ban' approaches
Semafor via Yahoo News· 1 day agoA set of Chinese companies that sought to become American brands are learning that may be impossible, Zeyi Yang wrote in the MIT Technology Review:...
