Frictionless AI comes at a human cost to learning, growth and connection

Artificial intelligence is rapidly making intellectual work and social interaction easier, but that ease may come at a substantial psychological cost, according to researchers from the University of ...

This $35,000 computer made of living human neurons can run Doom

The CL1 is the first commercial system from the same researchers who wowed the tech world in 2022 by teaching a cluster of ...

The Spatial Computing Puzzle: The WOWCube Is the Future of Rubik’s Cubes

From a father–son engineering duo, the WOWCube is tactile play alongside spatial computing. Bridging STEM learning and gaming.
The New York Times

Students Are Skipping the Hardest Part of Growing Up

Mr. Shirky, a vice provost at New York University, has been helping faculty members and students adapt to digital tools since 2015. Back in 2023, when ChatGPT was still new, a professor friend had a ...
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Computer Science Majors Prepare to Publish Human-Robot Interaction Research

Computer Science majors Owen McGann ’26 and Yousef Sengal ’27 spent last summer conducting research on Human-Robot Interaction (HRI) and how the language used to introduce robots can shape human ...
The Verge

Arduino’s UNO Q is already getting some upgrades.

The original version of the UNO Q paired Qualcomm’s Dragonwing QRB2210 processor with 2GB of RAM and 16GB of storage. A little over three months after it was announced alongside Qualcomm’s acquisition ...
Reuters

China issues draft rules to regulate AI with human-like interaction

BEIJING, Dec 27 (Reuters) - China's cyber regulator on Saturday issued draft rules for public comment that would tighten oversight of artificial intelligence services designed to simulate human ...
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How far are brain-computer interfaces from restoring and extending human ability?

Li Xue (left) and Zhao Zhengtou (center), co-founders of StairMed, conduct preoperative planning with Lu Junfeng at Huashan Hospital, Fudan University. The team was preparing for a clinical trial ...
Interesting Engineering

US packs 65,536 electrodes into paper-thin brain chip for real-time neural streaming

A new brain-computer interface (BCI) platform unveiled by researchers at Columbia University, New York-Presbyterian Hospital, Stanford University, and the University of Pennsylvania promises to expand ...
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Google’s Gemini 2.5 Computer Use model can navigate the web like a human

Google LLC has just announced a new version of its Gemini large language model that can navigate the web through a browser and interact with various websites, meaning it can perform tasks such as ...
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Google launches Gemini 2.5 Computer Use model with human-like web browsing capabilities

Google has released a new AI model called Gemini 2.5 Computer Use. The model allows AI agents to interact with websites and user interfaces the way a human would. It is now available in public preview ...