Computer & Information Technology

31 Jul 23

UV and Blue Light Take Down Drug-Resistant Bacteria

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Bacterial resistance to antibiotics is a serious threat to public health. It contributed to an estimated 4.95 million deaths in 2019, and a recent review commissioned by the government of the United Kingdom warns that antimicrobial resistance could result in the death of 10 million people annually by 2050. Zapping…

27 Jul 23

Llama and ChatGPT Are Not Open-Source

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Social media and advertising-technology company Meta recently released an update to its large language model Llama. Llama 2 was released as open source, providing users access to the model’s weights, evaluation code, and documentation. Meta states the open-source release was intended to make the model “accessible to individuals, creators, researchers,…

25 Jul 23

Introducing the Ghaf Platform: An Innovative Solution to Zero Trust Architecture

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With remote work driving the proliferation of Zero Trust Architecture (ZTA) across IT systems, this white paper introduces the Ghaf platform, a scalable, secure edge device platform that augments ZTA and minimizes Trusted Computing Base (TCB) by leveraging virtualization and modular design - enabling isolation and enhancing end-to-end security.

21 Jul 23

How Hacking Honeybees Brings AI Closer to the Hive

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If you ask a team of British computer scientists, the wisdom of the hive is more than just a poetic turn of phrase. These researchers have in fact studied the brains of honey bees to develop a new kind of machine intelligence for decision-making. While a bee’s life looks simple…

14 Jul 23

Flexible Implant Treats Heart Disease, Then Dissolves

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A soft implant about the size of a postage stamp may one day both monitor and help treat heart disease and then harmlessly dissolve away when no longer needed, a new study finds.With roughly 655,000 people in the United States dying from heart disease each year, it accounts for about…

13 Jul 23

New Biosensor Offers Real-Time Dialysis Feedback

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This article is part of our exclusive IEEE Journal Watch series in partnership with IEEE Xplore.Hemodialysis is a lifesaving procedure for people with kidney failure, in which a machine can substitute for a patient’s kidneys in filtering their blood, but it involves a lot of clinic visits and laboratory tests.…

11 Jul 23

Parkinson’s Predicted From Smartwatch Data

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Scientists at Cardiff University, in Wales, have discovered a way to accurately predict the occurrence of Parkinson’s disease years before clinical symptoms show up by analyzing motion data available from common smartwatches. They showed that a type of machine learning trained on wrist-worn accelerometer data was able to accurately determine…

07 Jul 23

Prototype Sensors Sniff Out Seizures Before They Occur

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Wearable sensors may one day detect impending seizures and give a warning roughly 20 minutes before an attack happens. Researchers at Know Biological in Milton, Georgia, and Sandia National Laboratories have developed a sensor that can reproduce the seizure-sniffing abilities of trained dogs that they hope will one day be…

03 Jul 23

How Coders Can Survive—and Thrive—in a ChatGPT World

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Artificial intelligence, particularly generative AI powered by large language models (LLMs), could upend many coders’ livelihoods. But some experts argue that AI won’t replace human programmers—not immediately, at least.“You will have to worry about people who are using AI replacing you,” says Tanishq Mathew Abraham, a Ph.D. candidate in biomedical…

30 Jun 23

Waterwave Could Quench AIs’ Thirst for GPU Memory

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This article is part of our exclusive IEEE Journal Watch series in partnership with IEEE Xplore.One of the (many) ways in which AI is making waves is in its ability to analyze immense datasets. But training these AI programs is becoming increasingly computationally intensive, underscoring the need to more efficient…