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Oct 23, 2023

This boat can fly over water literally

Posted by in category: engineering

The vessel was exhibited at the Maker Faire Rome 2023.

The PoliTo Sailing Team is a group of 90 students from the Polytechnic University of Turin and they are exhibiting at the Maker Faire Rome 2023, showcasing a boat that can literally fly over water.

IE spoke to a student of mechanical engineering Sara Cantalini from the Polytechnic University of Turin and a member of the new boat’s team.

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Oct 23, 2023

Cardiac arrest cases in young athletes

Posted by in category: biotech/medical

Pediatric cardiologist Mohammed Numan, MD, recently appeared on KHOU-11 to talk about sudden cardiac arrest in adolescents when playing sports. He shares signs that parents and teachers should be aware of and what tools and training they should have.

Watch Numan’s segment to learn more.


Although it’s rare, doctors at UT Physicians want parents and teachers to know when a student-athlete has a sudden cardiac arrest.

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Oct 23, 2023

Getting Rid of a Printer? Do This First—or Risk Getting Hacked

Posted by in category: cybercrime/malcode

Knowing how to dispose of a printer could mean the difference between protecting personal data and letting it fall into the wrong hands.

Oct 22, 2023

23AndMe Hacker Leaks New Tranche of Stolen Data

Posted by in categories: cybercrime/malcode, genetics

A threat actor who claimed responsibility for the compromise of the 23AndMe site earlier this month has released a new dataset, including the records of more than 4 million people’s genetic ancestry.

The cybercriminal, known by the handle Golem, alleges in a cybercrime Dark Web forum the stolen data includes information on, “the wealthiest people living in the US and Western Europe,” according to reports.

23andMe spokesperson Andy Kill said in a statement the organization is still trying to confirm whether the most recently leaked data is genuine.

Oct 22, 2023

The brief history of artificial intelligence: The world has changed fast — what might be next?

Posted by in categories: futurism, robotics/AI

Little is as important for the future of the world, and our own lives, as how this history continues.

Oct 22, 2023

How Close Is Science to Solving the Problem of Consciousness?

Posted by in categories: neuroscience, science

A 25-year-old wager is settled as a new generation of scientists takes on competing theories of consciousness.

Oct 22, 2023

Inside the Underground World of Black Market AI Chatbots

Posted by in categories: cryptocurrencies, cybercrime/malcode, encryption, law, robotics/AI

If you wanted to, you could access an “evil” version of OpenAI’s ChatGPT today—though it’s going to cost you. It also might not necessarily be legal depending on where you live.

However, getting access is a bit tricky. You’ll have to find the right web forums with the right users. One of those users might have a post marketing a private and powerful large language model (LLM). You’ll connect with them on an encrypted messaging service like Telegram where they’ll ask you for a few hundred dollars in cryptocurrency in exchange for the LLM.

Once you have access to it, though, you’ll be able to use it for all the things that ChatGPT or Google’s Bard prohibits you from doing: have conversations about any illicit or ethically dubious topic under the sun, learn how to cook meth or create pipe bombs, or even use it to fuel a cybercriminal enterprise by way of phishing schemes.

Oct 22, 2023

Scientists discover continent that had been missing for 375 years

Posted by in category: futurism

Geoscientists discovered a continent that had been hiding in plain sight for almost 375 years.

Historically, there’s been speculation about whether a continent known as Zealandia or Te Riu-a-Māui in the Māori language exists.

According to TN News, Zealandiais 1.89 million square miles in size. It was part of a supercontinent called Gondwana, which included most of Western Antarctica and Eastern Australia, over 500 million years ago.

Oct 22, 2023

Study shows that attractor dynamics in the monkey prefrontal cortex reflect the confidence of decisions

Posted by in categories: food, neuroscience, robotics/AI

When humans make decisions, such as picking what to eat from a menu, what jumper to buy at a store, what political candidate to vote for, and so on, they might be more or less confident with their choice. If we are less confident and thus experience greater uncertainty in relation to their choice, our choices also tend to be less consistent, meaning that we will be more likely to change our mind before reaching a final decision.

While neuroscientists have been exploring the neural underpinnings decision-making for decades, many questions are still unanswered. For instance, how neural network computations support decision-making under varying levels of certainty remain poorly understood.

Researchers at the National Institute of Mental Health in Bethesda, Maryland recently carried out a study on aimed at better understanding the neural network dynamics associated with decision confidence. Their paper, published in Nature Neuroscience, offers evidence that energy landscapes in the can predict the consistency of choices made by monkeys, which is in turn a sign of the animals’ confidence in their decisions.

Oct 22, 2023

New 3D-printed tumor model enables faster, less expensive and less painful cancer treatment

Posted by in categories: bioprinting, biotech/medical, computing, mathematics

An international team of interdisciplinary researchers has successfully created a method for better 3D modeling of complex cancers. The University of Waterloo-based team combined cutting-edge bioprinting techniques with synthetic structures or microfluidic chips. The method will help lab researchers more accurately understand heterogeneous tumors: tumors with more than one kind of cancer cell, often dispersed in unpredictable patterns.

The research, “Controlled tumor heterogeneity in a co-culture system by 3D bio-printed tumor-on-chip model,” appears in Scientific Reports.

Traditionally, would biopsy a patient’s tumor, extract cells, and then grow them in flat petri dishes in a lab. “For 50 years, this was how biologists understood tumors,” said Nafiseh Moghimi, an post-doctoral researcher and the lead author of the study. “But a decade ago, repeated treatment failures in made scientists realize that a 2D model does not capture the real tumor structure inside the body.”