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Peter Grad

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Peter Grad was a reporter, columnist and editor at newspapers in his hometown of the Bronx; Meriden, Conn., and then (for 32 years) in New Jersey at The Record. He was the Op-Ed Page editor at The Record for 18 years and also contributed a weekly computer column beginning in the nineties under the titles "The Computer Tutor" and "The PC Guy."" He designed a prototype for a video- and audio-enhanced online multimedia newspaper for The Record years before that became the norm for the nation's.

Articles by Peter Grad

Tech Xplore / Barkour benchmark measures quadruped robot agility

The accelerated pace of robotics development has given us a veritable zoo filled with creatures sometimes indistinguishable from the real deal.

Jun 1, 2023
Tech Xplore / 'Hot pixels' attack steals data through CPU readings

A team of security researchers at Georgia Tech, the University of Michigan and Ruhr University Bochum in Germany has reported a new form of side-channel attack that capitalizes on power and speed management methods used by ...

May 31, 2023
Tech Xplore / A simple test reveals: Bot or human?

Although ChatGPT is still in its infancy, its appearance has impacted virtually all fields relying on technology. Which is to say, pretty much everything is or will soon be touched by it.

May 30, 2023
Tech Xplore / AI tool generates video from brain activity

"Alexa, play back that dream I had about Kirsten last week." That's a command that may not be too far off in the future, as researchers close in on technology that can tap into our minds and retrieve the imagery of our thoughts.

May 25, 2023
Tech Xplore / DarkBERT learns language of the Dark Web

Two types of people thrive in the distant hidden recesses of the Dark Web. One type consists of the good guys: whistleblowers, freedom fighters, journalists, the intelligence community and law enforcement agencies, all generally ...

May 23, 2023
Tech Xplore / Brute-force test attack bypasses Android biometric defense

Chinese researchers say they successfully bypassed fingerprint authentication safeguards on smartphones by staging a brute force attack.

May 22, 2023
Tech Xplore / Soft e-skin that communicates with the brain

Researchers at Stanford University have developed digital skin that can convert sensations such as heat and pressure to electrical signals that can be read by electrodes implanted in the human brain.

May 19, 2023
Tech Xplore / A breakthrough in ceramic 3D printing

For Chinese scientists at Jiangnan University, the shape of things to come rests on a ceramic slurry and 3D printing.

May 15, 2023
Tech Xplore / Study finds source validation issues hurt ChatGPT reliability

ChatGPT seems to be everywhere. Morgan Stanley, Duolingo, Snapchat, Coca-Cola and Instacart have signed on, as have programmers, web designers, pharmaceutical companies, writers, musicians, translators and businesses of all ...

May 9, 2023
Tech Xplore / Ethical, legal issues raised by ChatGPT training literature

Researchers at the University of California, Berkeley, say ChatGPT has memorized a large number of copyrighted works and that inclusion of such data can introduce bias to analytics conducted with OpenAI models.

May 8, 2023
Tech Xplore / Researchers say AI emergent abilities are just a 'mirage'

There seems to be no end to predictions of storm clouds when computers eventually decide to take matters into their own hands (or should we say, their own processors).

May 5, 2023
Tech Xplore / AMD fTPM vulnerability uncovered

Researchers at the Technical University of Berlin say they uncovered a new vulnerability in AMD's Trusted Platform Module (TPM). The flaw exposes firmware TPMs, or fTPMs, to attack.

May 3, 2023
Tech Xplore / Knocked down but not defeated: Robots learn soccer

Deep Blue vs. Kasparov. Watson vs. Ken Jennings and Brad Rutter. Deepmind vs. Atari. Alpha Go vs. Lee Sedol.

May 2, 2023
Tech Xplore / Novel system uses reinforcement learning to teach robotic cars to speed

Fast cars. Millions of us love them. The idea transcends national borders, race, religion, politics. We embraced them for more than a century, beginning in the early 1900s with the stately Stutz Bearcat and Mercer Raceabout ...

May 1, 2023
Tech Xplore / Robotic seal's gait may be graceless, but it could help save lives

Recent progress in robotics has brought us startlingly lifelike replicas of humans and animals.

Apr 28, 2023