AWS says you're on your own if media codec patent owners come knocking

Explaining the reason for this decision, AWS says some patent holders of media codec technology are "increasingly refusing to ...
NPR Illinois

Powerful people, random redactions: 4 things to know about the latest Epstein files

In the Justice Department's release of millions of pages of documents related to Jeffrey Epstein, there are several instances ...

AI streamlines deluge of data from particle collisions

Brookhaven National Laboratory have developed a novel artificial intelligence (AI)-based method to dramatically tame the ...
eLife

Identifying regulators of associative learning using a protein-labelling approach in Caenorhabditis elegans

An innovative and scalable proximity labelling method profiled proteins present in the Caenorhabditis elegans brain during learning, identifying known regulators as well as novel biological pathways.

Rats demonstrate ability to replay episodic memories in complex experimental settings

In a new study Indiana University researchers observed episodic memory in rats to a degree never documented before, ...
IEEE

Attacks and countermeasures against electromagnetic field information leakage from quantum cryptography networks

Abstract: Nowadays, quantum key distribution (QKD) has gradually moved from the laboratory to practical applications. However, the inherent imperfections of practical QKD devices would cause side ...
Science Daily

A single beam of light runs AI with supercomputer power

Aalto University researchers have developed a method to execute AI tensor operations using just one pass of light. By encoding data directly into light waves, they enable calculations to occur ...
Frontiers

State-dependent memory mechanisms insights from neural circuits and clinical implications

State dependent memory (SDM) occurs when memory retrieval varies with the individual's psychological and physiological state at encoding and recall. Growing evidence shows that internal states shape ...
Nanowerk

A shape-shifting material that encrypts data in color and form

A light-responsive surface encrypts data by coupling structural color with programmable shape change, enabling secure and reversible information storage without electronics. (Nanowerk Spotlight) The ...
CNN

Analysis: Information is power, and Trump wants more control over it

Climate change reports, deleted. DEI initiatives, banned. Local TV and radio stations, defunded. Books, removed from military academies. Names of civil rights leaders, erased from ships. History ...
MIT Technology Review

A major AI training data set contains millions of examples of personal data

Personally identifiable information has been found in DataComp CommonPool, one of the largest open-source data sets used to train image generation models. Millions of images of passports, credit cards ...
eLife

A neuromorphic model of active vision shows how spatiotemporal encoding in lobula neurons can aid pattern recognition in bees

Bees’ remarkable visual learning abilities make them ideal for studying active information acquisition and representation. Here, we develop a biologically inspired model to examine how flight ...