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To improve communication security and effectiveness, Edith Cowan University (ECU), observation data provider QL Space, and University of South Wales (UK) have formed a new collaboration that focuses on free space optics (FSO).

In early 2024, the agreement will see the construction of a satellite ground station close to ECU’s Joondalup campus in Perth’s north to empower FSO. It will eventually be one of numerous stations in the worldwide network built in collaboration with the University of South Wales (USW).

Using light to send data

FSO, commonly referred to as optical wireless communication or laser communication, uses light to send data across the air without the usage of physical cables or fibre optics. FSO systems transfer modulated data as optical signals using lasers or light-emitting diodes (LEDs).

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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.

“That one is a boat that flies on water,” she said referring to the vessel. “It uses a lift produced by the appendees to go up and proceeds to fly with a control system that regulates the stability of the boat.”

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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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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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