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Constant smartphone notifications strain your brain – Neuroscience News

Summary: Constant push notifications on smartphones can affect cognition by decreasing concentration and increasing distraction. The researchers found that heavy smartphone use was associated with poor concentration recovery following a notification and with alterations in brain activity that made people more responsive to push notifications. Source: The conversation A ping from the pizza company. A …

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Brain-computer interfaces could allow soldiers to control their weapons with their thoughts and extinguish their fear

Summary: Brain-computer interfaces are currently being used to help people with neuromuscular disorders regain daily functions such as mobility and communication. The military is developing BCI technology to help members respond quickly to threats. Researchers are investigating ethical issues related to the use of neurotechnologies such as BCI on the battlefield. Source: The conversation Imagine …

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Tools you can use today to build the plastics processing plant of tomorrow

Advanced technologies such as Artificial Intelligence (AI), Big Data and high-tech sensors are changing the dynamics of plastics processing by providing tools that learn from each other and make decisions to improve processes. Plastics processing equipment with automated technology allows the equipment to communicate and process data with little or no human intervention. These embedded …

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How Neurons Autonomously Regulate Their Excitability – Neuroscience News

Summary: The SLK protein plays a key role in the excitability and sensitivity of neurons, the researchers report. Source: University of Bonn Nerve cells can regulate their sensitivity to incoming signals autonomously. A new study from the University of Bonn has now discovered a mechanism that does just that. The German Center for Neurodegenerative Diseases …

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Big tech and community colleges team up in education

Big tech and community colleges team up in education

Neethi Anand Gangidi came from India to the United States to study Chemical Engineering. But when the Covid-19 pandemic created difficulties for him doctorate studies, she changed direction by studying artificial intelligence, or AI, at Houston Community College (HCC) in Texas. At HCC, Gangidi and a team of students worked on a difficult problem: finding …

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Harnessing immune cells in the brain to ward off Alzheimer’s disease and other neurodegenerative diseases – Neuroscience News

Summary: Researchers have identified a protein that could be harnessed to help microglia in the brain ward off Alzheimer’s disease and other neurodegenerative diseases. Source: The conversation Many neurodegenerative diseases, or conditions resulting from the loss of function or death of brain cells, remain largely incurable. Most available treatments target only one of the multiple …

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New chatbots could change the world.  Can you trust them?

New chatbots could change the world. Can you trust them?

This month, Jeremy Howard, an artificial intelligence researcher, introduced an online chatbot called ChatGPT to his 7-year-old daughter. It had been released a few days earlier by OpenAI, one of the world’s most ambitious AI labs. He told her to ask the experimental chatbot anything that came to mind. She asked what trigonometry was used …

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Artists denounce the use of AI art: "I worry about the future of human creativity"

Artists denounce the use of AI art: “I worry about the future of human creativity”

Sign up to our Evening Headlines email for your daily guide to the latest news Sign up for our free US Evening Headlines email In recent weeks, artificial intelligence apps have gone viral on social media for allowing users to create avatars in the style of various famous artists. However, these powerful new tools are …

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Top 5 Stories of the Week: Google Sheets Adds ML, AWS Eye Trends, ChatGPT Dangers, and More

Top 5 Stories of the Week: Google Sheets Adds ML, AWS Eye Trends, ChatGPT Dangers, and More

Check out all the Smart Security Summit on-demand sessions here. Even though the holiday season is in full swing, the tech world isn’t slowing down. This week brought new twists on established products as Google rolled out a beta version of Simple ML for Sheets, its cloud-based spreadsheet. The add-on borrows machine learning technology from …

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Apple Invents Smart Gestures to Facilitate a Superior Online Smart Shopping Experience Using Apple Watch, Smart Ring and Smartglasses+

Apple Invents Smart Gestures to Facilitate a Superior Online Smart Shopping Experience Using Apple Watch, Smart Ring and Smartglasses+

On Thursday, the US Patent and Trademark Office published a patent application from Apple relating to providing an intelligent shopping experience using wireless communication. Smart gestures can facilitate smart shopping and other contactless experiences by allowing a user to naturally gesture toward one or more desired items with or while wearing a portable or non-portable …

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