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Researchers release solar power data software to increase clean energy generationA lot can happen to solar panels that are mounted on a roof—from tree branches casting shade over them to a neighbor's baseball cracking one.... Read more
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Computer scientists makes noisy data: Can it improve treatments in health care?University of Copenhagen researchers have developed software able to disguise sensitive data such as those used for machine learning in health care applications. The method protects privacy while making datasets available for the development of better treatments.... Read more
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How we almost ended up with a bull's-eye bar codeFew objects in the world are more immediately recognizable than the bar code. After all, bar codes are all around us. They're on the books we buy and the packages that land on our doorsteps. More than 6 billion bar codes are scanned every single day. They've become such an... Read more
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From besting Tetris AI to epic speedruns—inside gaming's most thrilling featsAfter 13-year-old Willis Gibson became the first human to beat the original Nintendo version of Tetris, he dedicated his special win to his father, who passed away in December 2023.... Read more
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Researchers develop AI-driven machine-checking method for verifying software codeA team of computer scientists led by the University of Massachusetts Amherst recently announced a new method for automatically generating whole proofs that can be used to prevent software bugs and verify that the underlying code is correct.... Read more
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New tool will make math-heavy research papers easier to view onlineThe complex formulas in physics, math and engineering papers might be intimidatingly difficult reading matter for some, but there are many people who have trouble merely seeing them in the first place. The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) has created a tool that makes these papers easier on... Read more
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Understanding the security of mobile apps in AfricaResearchers from CyLab-Africa and the Upanzi Network recently partnered with the mobile security provider Approov to explore the security of common financial services apps used across Africa. After surveying 224 popular financial applications, the researchers found that 95% of these Android apps exposed secrets that can be used to reveal... Read more
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Major security flaws in Java applications, European researchers warnAlexandre Bartel, Professor of Software Engineering and Security at Umeå University, in collaboration with several European researchers, has extensively analyzed weaknesses in software written in one of the world's most widely used programming languages.... Read more
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NASA flies drones autonomously for air taxi researchResearchers at NASA's Langley Research Center in Hampton, Virginia recently flew multiple drones beyond visual line of sight with no visual observer. The drones successfully flew around obstacles and each other during takeoff, along a planned route, and upon landing, all autonomously without a pilot controlling the flight. This test... Read more
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A free, easy-to-use platform for understanding and managing electric gridsThe Department of Energy's SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory and its partners at Hitachi America Energy Solutions Laboratory have released a new open-source software platform for simulating how all the parts of an electric grid work together, along with a graphic interface that makes it much easier for users to understand... Read more
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Google's Gemini: Is the new AI model really better than ChatGPT?Google Deepmind has recently announced Gemini, its new AI model to compete with OpenAI's ChatGPT. While both models are examples of "generative AI," which learn to find patterns of input training information to generate new data (pictures, words or other media), ChatGPT is a large language model (LLM) which focuses... Read more
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AI study creates faster and more reliable softwareUniversity of Stirling researchers have trained ChatGPT to produce faster versions of a software program. Making software run faster and more reliably is challenging and time-consuming for software developers.... Read more
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Google's Epic legal defeat threatens $200 billion app store industryGoogle's legal defeat at the hands of Fortnite maker Epic Games Inc. threatens to roil an app store duopoly with Apple Inc. that generates close to $200 billion a year and dictates how billions of consumers use mobile devices.... Read more
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New open-source platform cuts costs for running AICornell researchers have released a new, open-source platform called Cascade that can run artificial intelligence (AI) models in a way that slashes expenses and energy costs while dramatically improving performance.... Read more
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Interoperability is the name of the game in the future of traffic, says researcherAn F-35 fighter plane has 8 million lines of code. A modern car, by comparison, has hundreds of millions of lines of code. The car is on its way to becoming an even more demanding software platform than the cell phone, says Tero Päivärinta, professor of Empirical Software Engineering at... Read more