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The FBI has published its Cryptocurrency Fraud Report for 2023, and the losses continue to mount, reaching 5.6 billion dollars, which is a 45% increase in comparison to 2022. Even though fraudulent cryptocurrency schemes only account for 10% of the complaints the Internet Crime Complaint Center (IC3) receives, the...
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Researchers from MIT and the University of Texas at Austin worked together to achieve a breakthrough in the world of 3D printing, creating a protype the size of a US quarter. The researchers say that this system is completely rethinking what a 3D printer is. It is no longer a big box sitting on a bench in a lab...
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Cryptocurrency is on the rise again, with Bitcoin cresting the $60k mark earlier this year and holding steady while Ethereum floats just shy of $3k. With those tantalizing prices, crypto-crimes are also rising again after a brief cooldown following the $40m heist at crypto casino Stake. However, these crimes are...
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Lenovo Legion Pro 7 16IRX9H: Starting at $2,699 MSRP. The Lenovo Legion Pro 7 16IRX9H is a beast of a machine, well suited to gamers or content creation professionals looking for a portable powerhouse. RGB is optional Keyboard offers excellent typing experience Great performance Attractive, functional design Short...
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AI image generators typically work through a process known as "diffusion". Basically, the model that's generating the image starts with a very vague, blurry picture, and successive sampling steps refine the image until it's sharp and realisticor at least, as real as the model can get for what you've prompted...
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If you ever wake up one day finding yourself wanting to play OG Doom on an 18x32 pixel display made of E. Coli bacteria with FPS as slow as molasses, then you ought to give MIT researcher Lauren Ramlan a call. We have a gut feeling that you'll have the time of your life, as long as you have 600 years to...
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Augmental debuted its tongue-operated MouthPad at CES 2024, a pressure-sensitive touchpad that sits at the roof of the mouth. While the concept of being able to scroll a webpage with the tongue may seem silly to some, it has a much higher and meaningful purpose to others.
An MIT Media Lab spinoff, Augmental...
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NASA's Mars Curiosity rover has spent an incredible 4,000 sols (Martian days) on the Red Planet since it first landed on the Martian surface in 2012. Curiosity completed its primary mission objective in 2014 and is still going strong.
Curiosity landed in Gale Crater on August 5, 2012, and has remained busy ever...
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Artists are using a new tool to add invisible changes to their art before uploading online. Why? In order to combat having their work scraped into an AI training set. The new method causes the resulting model to "break in chaotic and unpredictable ways."
Artists are battling to protect their work against being...
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Blackdot aims to take the art of tattooing to a new level with what it calls "A New Way to Tattoo." Not to be confused with MIT's DuoSkin tattoos that function as on-body device controllers, the company's automated tattooing platform has opened up bookings for those daring enough to give it a shot at its studio...
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The Humane Ai Pin, powered by Snapdragon, debuted publicly at the Paris Fashion Show. The company, founded by former Apple employees, says it wants to make technology invisible while still providing and enhancing all the features and benefits of current technology.
Humane, Inc. announced its Humane Ai Pin in July...
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Using wireless signals to discover what is on the other side of a wall is not necessarily a new concept but one that has improved in recent years with advancements in math and machine learning. This has been showcased most recently by a team of researchers out of the University of California Santa Barbara who were...
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As NASA continues to explore ways of supporting human life on Mars for future missions to the Red Planet, it has already achieved a significant milestone in being able to produce oxygen via an instrument onboard the Perseverance Rover called MOXIE. MOXIE, or Mars Oxygen In-Situ Resource Utilization Experiment...
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Researchers at MIT have found a viable (and scalable) way to use concrete in house foundations and roads to potentially power your home or electric vehicles (EVs). Will we seeing this technology in homes soon?
Imagine if the concrete in your humble abode or the concrete roads you drive on can be used to...
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MIT geologists have developed a new technique that allows scientists to view just how fiercely rivers flowed at one time on Mars and how intensely they currently flow on Saturn's moon Titan. The team achieved this by utilizing satellite observations to estimate the rate at which rivers move fluid and sediment...
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Researchers from Harvard Medical School, the University of Maine, and MIT have developed a method for reversing cellular aging. The groundbreaking research could be an alternative to gene therapy for age reversal, changing how humans are treated for age-related diseases.
No one likes growing old. Many try...
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Researchers have set a new record for the fastest space-to-ground laser communications with data rates of 200 gigabits per second. The blistering speed is 100 times faster than the swiftest internet speeds in most major cities, and is capable of transmitting more than 2 TBs of data in a single five-minute pass...
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A group of researchers from big name companies and institutions like Google, MIT, and the University of Pennsylvania have published a paper about a new photo editing app that takes advantage of AI in a very creative way. DragGAN allows a user to manipulate an image by dragging any two main components in order...
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PowerColor has admitted that a small percentage of its Radeon RX 7900 XTX Red Devil graphics cards have an issue that results in a significant delta between the average GPU temperature and the hot spot temperature. The firm has already made a helpful statement on the issue, but many will be happy to fix the...
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Scientists are asking meteorite hunters to cease and desist using magnets to verify their finds. Even weak magnets can destroy valuable information concerning the magnetic field of its parent body and vital information about the history of our solar system.
Meteorite hunting has turned into a big business, with one...
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The process of in vitro fertilization (IVF) takes its first baby step toward becoming completely automated. Last spring, engineers utilized a microscope, a mechanized needle, a tiny petri dish, a laptop, and a Sony PlayStation 5 controller to fertilize more than a dozen eggs.
Currently, a patient attempting to get...
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A new rumor claims three new AMD Radeon RX 7000 series mid-range GPUs are in the works that will compete with NVIDIAs GeForce RTX 4070 series and as yet unannounced RTX 4060 series GPUs. These models include the Radeon RX 7800 XTX, RX 7800 XT, and RX 7700 XT, which will reportedly be powered by AMDs scaled-down Navi...
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