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Two-thirds of Canadians have experimented with gen...
When ChatGPT entered the public imagination in 2022, Canadians were curious, hopeful, anxious and had plenty of questions. Just three years later, our new report, The State of Generative AI Use in Canada 2025, finds that two-thirds of Canadians...
Developments in AI need to be properly regulated a...
Artificial intelligence (AI) is often hailed as the defining technology of the 21st century, shaping everything from economic growth to national security. But as global investment in AI accelerates, many experts are beginning to ask whether the world has...
Robotic system zeroes in on objects most relevant ...
For a robot, the real world is a lot to take in. Making sense of every data point in a scene can take a huge amount of computational effort and time. Using that information to then decide how to...
Aerial robots offer safer, more sustainable constr...
New research led by Imperial College London and co-authored by the University of Bristol, has revealed that aerial robotics could provide wide-ranging benefits to the safety, sustainability and scale of construction.
Self-driving vehicles: The road to cheaper, sustai...
The future of urban mobility is near. EU-backed trials of driverless cars in public transport could make Europe's city centers affordable, cleaner, safer, more efficient, inclusive and fair.
New system quantifies language model personalities...
Large language models (LLMs) are at the forefront of artificial intelligence (AI) and have been widely used for conversational interactions. However, assessing the personality of a given LLM remains a significant challenge.
New ferroelectric device performs calculations wit...
In a new Nature Communications study, researchers have developed an in-memory ferroelectric differentiator capable of performing calculations directly in the memory without requiring a separate processor.
Google paid Samsung 'enormous sums' for Gemini AI ...
Alphabet Inc. pays Samsung Electronics Co. an "enormous sum of money" every month to preinstall Google generative AI app, Gemini, on its phones and devices, according to court testimony, even though the company's practice of paying for installations has...
Algorithm can make AI responses increasingly relia...
ChatGPT and alike often amaze us with the accuracy of their answers, but unfortunately, they also repeatedly give us cause for doubt. The main issue with powerful AI response engines (artificial intelligence) is that they provide us with perfect...
Research shows humans are still better than AI at ...
Humans, it turns out, are better than current AI models at describing and interpreting social interactions in a moving scene—a skill necessary for self-driving cars, assistive robots, and other technologies that rely on AI systems to navigate the real...
YouTube says more than 20 billion videos uploaded ...
YouTube on Wednesday celebrated more than 20 billion videos being uploaded to the platform since the first clip debuted two decades ago.
California Bar discloses AI was used to develop so...
The State Bar of California has disclosed that some multiple-choice questions in a problem-plagued bar exam were developed with the aid of artificial intelligence.
Investigating charge behavior in multilayer OLEDs ...
High-resolution, full-color display devices like foldable mobile phones and ultrathin television sets use organic light-emitting diodes (OLEDs). Compared to other display technologies, OLEDs offer flexibility, self-lighting, low weight, thinness, superior contrast, and low voltage displays, attracting considerable attention in...
EVs, tariffs in the spotlight as Chinese automaker...
Leading automakers are showcasing their latest designed-for-China and the world models at the Shanghai auto show this week, fighting not to be edged aside in the world's largest car market while watching for U.S. President Donald Trump's next steps...
Keeping Big Tech in check: News media must reinven...
Big Tech companies such as Amazon, Apple, Alphabet, Meta, and Microsoft have deeply embedded themselves into every aspect of our lives—our health care, education, and even politics. As these tech giants consistently stay one step ahead of regulation, the...
Novel out-of-core mechanism introduced for large-s...
A research team has introduced a new out-of-core mechanism, Capsule, for large-scale GNN training, which can achieve up to a 12.02× improvement in runtime efficiency, while using only 22.24% of the main memory, compared to SOTA out-of-core GNN systems....
High-voltage CMOS backplane developed for very bri...
A common method to increase the brightness of OLEDs while maintaining a long lifespan is the use of multiple stacked OLEDs. Scientists at the Fraunhofer Institute for Photonic Microsystems IPMS have now developed an innovative high-voltage CMOS backplane that...
A newly developed fast and flexible CPU notificati...
Getting interrupted while at work can cause you to lose your ability to work quickly and effectively. A computer's central processing unit (CPU) core is no different. If the CPU core has to stop what it is working on...