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Artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning tools have proved to be highly effective in tackling various tasks that entail analyzing data and making accurate predictions. Despite their advantages, these tools have significant computational demands, and when running on existing processing units, they can consume a lot of energy.

A federal appeals court on Tuesday breathed new life into a lawsuit by Chrome users who say Google gathered data even though they did not "Sync" to their accounts.

Federal safety officials are requiring inspections of cockpit seats on Boeing 787 Dreamliners after one of the jets went into a dive when the captain's seat lurched forward without warning and disconnected the plane's autopilot system.

Boeing has suspended flight testing of its new 777X wide-body jet after identifying the failure of a part connecting the engine to the body of the aircraft, the latest in a long line of quality control issues for the troubled US aerospace giant.

It’s finally faster for teachers to create group assignments.

Google has another legal battle ahead of it.

Your emails are looking a little tarnished.

A study, published in the journal Risk Sciences, explores the influence of optimism bias on decision-making in cyber risk management, and introduces a novel model that integrates utility loss aversion—a previously unexplored factor in this context.

ChatGPT and other large language models (LLMs) cannot learn independently or acquire new skills, meaning they pose no existential threat to humanity, according to new research from the University of Bath and the Technical University of Darmstadt in Germany.

Instead of channel surfing or browsing through a TV guide, Aussie kids today navigate complex streaming platforms and their algorithms to find shows, which is influencing their viewing habits, according to a new study of children aged 7 to 9.

A Purdue University research team has demonstrated how to optimize yield in corn fields equipped with solar power arrays that throughout the day cast dynamic shadows across growing crops.

Smartwatches might be good for tracking steps and heart rates, but they can also offer hackers a wealth of personal information to exploit, according to a new Charles Darwin University (CDU) study.

Australia's video games development industry urgently needs better marketing to tap into the $3.9 billion spent nationally on buying games and to avoid the staff layoffs seen in bigger global companies over the past year.

When we flip the light switch in our homes, we have come to expect instant access to electricity. Behind the scenes, that reliability depends on utility operators who have developed control systems and fail-safes to keep the power flowing.

Artificial intelligence can completely transform current driver training. This is also the aim of a collaboration between NTNU, the IT company Virtur, and WAY AS in Trondheim, which is Norway's only simulator-based driving school.

In an effort to reduce the environmental impact of carbon dioxide emissions, a University of Central Florida researcher has developed a new technology that captures carbon dioxide and outputs useful fuels and chemicals.

A widely used security protocol that dates back to the days of dial-up internet has vulnerabilities that could expose large numbers of networked devices to an attack and allow an attacker to gain control of traffic on an organization's network.

The OPS V3 Pro and its budget-friendly sibling, the OPS V1, are available to preorder at Amazon ahead of next month's launch.

Or at least, that's what Fantasy Fantasy 16 director Hiroshi Takai would like to happen.

Imagine if Australian cities became major producers of clean energy, rather than relying on far-flung solar and wind farms.