They came from outer space: 75 mice, over 1,500 flies, cell cultures, microorganisms, plant seeds and more. A Russian biological research satellite toting more than 30 experiments landed on Sept. 19 in the steppes of the Orenburg region after spending 30…
EU tells Apple to crack down on online fraud
The European Union is preparing to look into whether Apple and other major tech companies are doing enough to prevent online financial fraud. Image Credit: European Union Online fraud is a major problem for consumers, and one that the EU thinks…
What might the “AI-fueled finance department of tomorrow” look like?
While there’s much agreement that AI is good at automating routine tasks and freeing up people for more valuable work, some departments are clearly a more obvious fit than others. Finance may appear as something of an outlier; a more skeptical…
AI models are using material from retracted scientific papers
“If [a tool is] facing the general public, then using retraction as a kind of quality indicator is very important,” says Yuanxi Fu, an information science researcher at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign. There’s “kind of an agreement that retracted papers…
Facebook adds an AI assistant to its dating app
Facebook Dating has added two new AI tools, because clearly a large language model is what the search for love and companionship has been missing all this time. The social media platform introduced a chatbot called dating assistant that can help…
Is our dream of finding ocean-covered exoplanets drying up?
Sub-Neptune planets, often billed as possible “water worlds,” may be more desert than deep sea, according to a new study. For years, scientists thought these planets, which are larger than Earth but smaller than Neptune, could form far from their stars,…