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Could complex beliefs like paranoia have roots in something as basic as vision? A new Yale study finds evidence that they might.

When completing a visual perception task, in which participants had to identify whether one moving dot was chasing another moving dot, those with greater tendencies toward paranoid thinking (believing others intend them harm) and teleological thinking (ascribing excessive meaning and purpose to events) performed worse than their counterparts, the study found. Those individuals more often—and confidently—claimed one dot was chasing the other when it wasn’t.

The findings, published in the journal Communications Psychology, suggest that in the future, testing for illnesses like schizophrenia could be done with a simple eye test.

Leveraging the principles of quantum mechanics, quantum computers can perform calculations at lightning-fast speeds, enabling them to solve complex problems faster than conventional computers. In quantum technology applications such as quantum computing, light plays a central role in encoding and transmitting information.

NTU researchers have recently made breakthroughs in manipulating light that could potentially usher in the era of quantum computing. Details of this research have been published in Nature Photonics, Physical Review Letters, and Nature Communications.

The o1 model in Microsoft Azure OpenAI Service, a multimodal model, enhances your AI applications and supports both text and vision inputs. Learn more.

The protective proteins in our bodies aren’t just great for fending off infection—they could also fight the effects of getting older.

Very interesting discussion (with interactive animations) of how diffusion and criticality can model real-world processes and give us insight into why things happen.

Learn how things spread with playable simulations.

Child mortality in conflict settings was 8 percent, compared with 1.1 percent in peaceful countries.

It also said that 83.2 percent of the world’s poorest people live in sub-Saharan Africa and South Asia.

The index, compiled jointly with the Oxford Poverty and Human Development Initiative (OPHI), used indicators such as a lack of adequate housing, sanitation, electricity, cooking fuel, nutrition and school attendance to assess levels of “multidimensional poverty”

Enjoyment, thrill of pursuit motivate growers of colossal pumpkins, even though it’s a very expensive hobby.’‘

I believe that vertical farming will be able to meet the demand of 9.7 billion people by 2050 or even be able to feed eventually the entire globe or even space stations. The leading vertical farming company I like is aero farms:3.

By 2050, we’ll need to produce 70% more food to feed over 9 billion mouths. Luckily, a wide range of vertical farming companies are developing innovative solutions to redefine production, expand urban agriculture and transform consumers into green-fingered growers.

Nvidia launches the $249 Jetson Orin Nano Super Developer Kit, delivering a 1.7x boost in generative AI performance.