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Tech Xplore / Running with the Red Queen: Using game theory to improve cybersecurity in the AI era
In Lewis Carroll's "Alice Through the Looking Glass," the eponymous heroine encounters the Red Queen, who involves her in a frantic race. In this curious country, Alice learns, you have to run as fast as you possibly can ...
Tech Xplore / Faster, more accurate airborne radiation detection demonstrated in six-second helicopter flyovers
A new radiation detection method correctly identified single and mixed radioactive sources during six-second helicopter flyovers, according to a University of Michigan Engineering and Paul Scherrer Institute study.
Tech Xplore / Where's the bug? AI pinpoints and explains flaws in smart contracts
Smart contracts are computer programs that run on blockchains and carry out agreements automatically, like a vending machine that releases a product once payment is made. Today they power cryptocurrency payments, online lending ...
Tech Xplore / Printed electronics turn mattress protectors into fall-risk monitors
Australian medtech company Sleeptite and RMIT University researchers have secured a U.S. patent for smart bedding technology designed to monitor residents' well-being in health care settings and identify fall risk so caregivers ...
Tech Xplore / Anthropic files for potentially the biggest IPO ever as CEO warns of risk to humanity from AI
Artificial intelligence giant Anthropic filed paperwork Monday for what could be the biggest initial public offering of stock ever, even as its top executive warns that advanced AI could pose an existential threat to humanity.
Tech Xplore / Lithium removal extends perovskite solar cell lifespan to advance commercialization efforts
The Photovoltaic Research Department of the Korea Institute of Energy Research (KIER) has developed a catalytic process that extends the lifespan of perovskite solar cells. The findings were published in Advanced Science.
Tech Xplore / AI-assisted discovery exposes decade-old PHP flaw that could put millions of websites at risk
Governments and organizations around the world began scrambling on Oct. 21, 2026, to fix a vulnerability in software that runs their websites, a bug that could give hackers access to data and control of websites. The flaw ...
Tech Xplore / Engineers develop stealthy, low-cost tech to detect drones
Florida International University researchers have developed a new way to detect incoming drones using the unique magnetic signatures generated by their motors—offering a detection method that is stealthier, safer and cheaper ...
Tech Xplore / Wearable system captures human activity data for robot training
Humanoid robots, robotic systems with a body shape that resembles that of humans, could tackle various chores and everyday manual tasks. To successfully complete these tasks, however, the robots should be able to reliably ...
Tech Xplore / Researchers develop new way to reduce metal waste in manufacturing
Manufacturing aircraft components, battery materials, cutting tools, biomedical implants and other precision-engineered parts often involves metals in powder form.
Tech Xplore / Low-power neural chip reads brain signals to identify cognitive and emotional states
Deep brain stimulation (DBS) is a therapeutic technique that delivers electrical pulses to specific areas of the brain via an implant to modulate neural activity. It is already widely used for movement disorders such as Parkinson's ...
Tech Xplore / AI deepfakes are getting more realistic. Scientists developed a better way to spot them
Hundreds of the nation's computer scientists gathered for a conference in Denver last fall, and Tuan Tran had a big test for them: Could they tell the difference between the real Brad Pitt and an AI-generated version of him?
