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Tools you can use today to build the plastics processing plant of tomorrow

Advanced technologies such as Artificial Intelligence (AI), Big Data and high-tech sensors are changing the dynamics of plastics processing by providing tools that learn from each other and make decisions to improve processes. Plastics processing equipment with automated technology allows the equipment to communicate and process data with little or no human intervention. These embedded …

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How Neurons Autonomously Regulate Their Excitability – Neuroscience News

Summary: The SLK protein plays a key role in the excitability and sensitivity of neurons, the researchers report. Source: University of Bonn Nerve cells can regulate their sensitivity to incoming signals autonomously. A new study from the University of Bonn has now discovered a mechanism that does just that. The German Center for Neurodegenerative Diseases …

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Big tech and community colleges team up in education

Big tech and community colleges team up in education

Neethi Anand Gangidi came from India to the United States to study Chemical Engineering. But when the Covid-19 pandemic created difficulties for him doctorate studies, she changed direction by studying artificial intelligence, or AI, at Houston Community College (HCC) in Texas. At HCC, Gangidi and a team of students worked on a difficult problem: finding …

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Harnessing immune cells in the brain to ward off Alzheimer’s disease and other neurodegenerative diseases – Neuroscience News

Summary: Researchers have identified a protein that could be harnessed to help microglia in the brain ward off Alzheimer’s disease and other neurodegenerative diseases. Source: The conversation Many neurodegenerative diseases, or conditions resulting from the loss of function or death of brain cells, remain largely incurable. Most available treatments target only one of the multiple …

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Another week of layoffs, executive departures and AI-generated everything

Another week of layoffs, executive departures and AI-generated everything

Hello again! Greg here again with Week in Review. WiR is the newsletter where we take the most-read TechCrunch stories from the last seven days and boil them down to as few words as possible – no fluff, no nonsense, *just a quick rundown of everything you probably want to know about technology this week. …

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New chatbots could change the world.  Can you trust them?

New chatbots could change the world. Can you trust them?

This month, Jeremy Howard, an artificial intelligence researcher, introduced an online chatbot called ChatGPT to his 7-year-old daughter. It had been released a few days earlier by OpenAI, one of the world’s most ambitious AI labs. He told her to ask the experimental chatbot anything that came to mind. She asked what trigonometry was used …

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Artists denounce the use of AI art: "I worry about the future of human creativity"

Artists denounce the use of AI art: “I worry about the future of human creativity”

Sign up to our Evening Headlines email for your daily guide to the latest news Sign up for our free US Evening Headlines email In recent weeks, artificial intelligence apps have gone viral on social media for allowing users to create avatars in the style of various famous artists. However, these powerful new tools are …

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Move over ChatGPT, here is the ultimate artificial intelligence, AI Pacino

Move over ChatGPT, here is the ultimate artificial intelligence, AI Pacino

One of the little joys of being artificially smart is that it doesn’t take much effort to pass yourself off as smart at dinner parties and panel discussions. These are situational areas where a person’s intelligence is exposed, but only in bits and pieces, and that too, in conversations, big discussions, with the right amount …

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An Apple patent published this week describes the use of machine learning in a new system for tracking sleep stages

An Apple patent published this week describes the use of machine learning in a new system for tracking sleep stages

Apple acquired Beddit, a Finnish technology company, in 2017. Since then, Apple has filed patents to improve the Beddit system (01, 02, 03 and more). Beyond the Bed device, Apple has launched a sleep app for Apple Watch and iPhone. On Thursday, the US Patent & Trademark Office published an Apple patent application titled “Sleep …

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