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A study published in the journal Science Advances finds that AI enhances creativity by boosting the novelty of story ideas as well as the 'usefulness' of stories—their ability to engage the target audience and potential for publication. The paper is titled "Generative AI enhances individual creativity but reduces the collective diversity of novel content."

The European Union and the United Kingdom mandate via the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) that users of web services must give their informed consent for their data to be collected and used. To this end, each time a user visits a new website, they are presented with a privacy notice.

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Artificial Intelligence now underpins many of our activities in public and private spheres, including work, education, travel, and leisure. But its rapid development and increased use has been led primarily by commercial interests rather than deliberative policy or legislative choices.

Users of voice assistants such as Siri, Alexa or Google Assistant know the frustration of being misunderstood by a machine.

Researchers at Songshan Lake Materials Laboratory have made significant advances in sodium-ion battery (SIB) technology by improving cycling performance of the NaNiO2 cathode. The work has been published in the online edition of Materials Futures.

Using electricity generated by offshore wind turbines as one pathway to split water to produce clean hydrogen may make economic sense, particularly along the U.S. Atlantic Coast and in the Gulf of Mexico, according to researchers at the National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL).

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Scientists at King Abdullah University of Science and Technology (KAUST) in Saudi Arabia have developed a tiny "claw machine" that is able to pick up and drop a marble-sized ball in response to exposure to chemical vapors.

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The JSAUX FlipGo Portable Dual Monitor transforms your mobile and desk workstation, offering a simple yet adaptable plug-and-play monitor for a myriad of productivity uses.

Yet more rumors have appeared about Apple planning a new HomePod with a screen, home hub, or some other new device for the house. A big leak and info from Apple itself may mean that the device is inching closer to release.

Apple has caved to pressure from Russian authorities and removed a number of the best iPhone VPN apps from the App Store in the country.

Tech billionaire Elon Musk's X platform is misleading users with its blue checkmarks for certified accounts, and is also violating EU content rules, Brussels said Friday, in a finding that could lead to hefty fines.

The data of nearly all customers of the telecommunications giant AT&T was downloaded to a third-party platform in a 2022 security breach, the company said Friday, as cyberattacks against businesses, schools and health systems continue to spread globally.

Data breaches like the most recent one involving AT&T customers are becoming an almost regular occurrence.

A trio of computer scientists at Auburn University, in the U.S., working with a colleague from the University of Alberta, in Canada, has found that claims of visual skills by large language models (LLMs) with vision capabilities (VLMs) may be overstating abilities.

Water electrolysis offers an ideal process for hydrogen production, which could play a key role in the global energy transition that increasingly relies on renewable electricity, but whose current production process is extremely carbon intensive.

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A team of roboticists and AI specialists at Google's DeepMind have demonstrated a robot capable of giving context-based guided tours around its offices. They have posted a paper describing their work, along with demonstration videos, on the arXiv preprint server.