A guide to the Nature Index

[ad_1] The Nature Index is a database of author affiliations and institutional relationships. The index tracks contributions to research articles published in high-quality natural-science and health-science journals, chosen based on reputation by an independent group of researchers. The Nature Index provides absolute and fractional counts of article publication at the institutional and national level and, … Read more

Watch out — these malicious PyPl packages could drain your wallet, and they’ve already been downloaded thousands of times

[ad_1] Be careful when downloading Python packages from PyPI – researchers have found some are malicious and looking to steal your cryptocurrency haul.  Cybersecurity researchers from ReversingLabs recently discovered seven such packages, whose goal is to steal BIP39 mnemonic phrases from its victims.  A cryptocurrency wallet is secured in two ways: with a password, and … Read more

Anthony Epstein (1921–2024), discoverer of virus causing cancer in humans

[ad_1] Credit: Stuart Bebb/Wolfson College Archives Anthony (Tony) Epstein, co-discoverer of the Epstein–Barr virus (EBV), was the founding father of research into the part that viruses play in the development of human cancers. Today, seven types of viral infection — more than one of which can be prevented by vaccination — are known to cause … Read more

The Garmin Forerunner 55 GPS running watch drops to a record low of $150

[ad_1] Spring is so close now that it’s almost in our grasp. Say goodbye to wearing a huge coat to go to the gym and hello to outdoor activities. With that in mind, there many great GPS running watches out there to track your time in the sun, including the on sale Garmin’s Forerunner 55. … Read more

Looking back at the Motorola DynaTAC 8000X — the first mobile phone that was ever sold 40 years ago today

[ad_1] The scale and prevalence of mobile phones in today’s age is extraordinary when you think that little more than 40 years ago, not one person was able to buy one commercially. That all changed on March 13 1984, when the Motorola DynaTAC 8000X became the first mobile phone to be sold in the US … Read more

Plutopalooza

[ad_1] Tess and Gemma have been camped out on their tartan picnic blanket for days already and they plan on staying until the very end … of the concert or the world, whichever happens first. Smart money is on the latter. The way those lads are going at their bass lines and anthems up on stage, … Read more

20 years of Bluetooth audio

[ad_1] “When you think about the history of Bluetooth, and specifically about audio, you really have to go back to the mid-to-late ’90s.” Chuck Sabin is a Bluetooth expert. As a senior director at Bluetooth Special Interest Group (SIG), he oversees market research and planning as well as business development. He’s also leading the charge … Read more

OpenAI’s Sora will one day add audio, editing, and may allow nudity in content

[ad_1] OpenAI’s Chief Technology Officer Mira Murati recently sat down with The Wall Street Journal to reveal interesting details about their upcoming text-to-video generator Sora. The interview covers a wide array of topics from the type of content the AI engine will produce to the security measures being put into place. Combating misinformation is a … Read more

Chatbot AI makes racist judgements on the basis of dialect

[ad_1] Some models are more likely to associate African American English with negative traits than Standard American English.Credit: Jaap Arriens/NurPhoto via Getty Large language models (LLMs), including those that power chatbots such as ChatGPT, make racist judgements on the on basis of users’ dialect, a preprint study has found1. Researchers found that some artificial intelligence … Read more