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Move Aside, Crypto. AI Could Be The Next Climate Disaster.

A new Stanford report highlights the staggering carbon emissions required to train and maintain large language models like OpenAI's ChatGPT.

Artificial Intelligence Mack DeGeurin Apr 3

A New Stanford Study Uses Facial Recognition to Figure Out If You’re Liberal or Conservative

Today in terrible ideas: an AI system that claims to be able to accurately predict your political affiliation using…your face. Yes, really. Stanford researcher Michal Kosinski published his research (which you can read here) in the journal Nature earlier this week. You might remember Kosinski’s name from spearheading a similar studyback in 2017 that claimed…

Artificial Intelligence Shoshana Wodinsky Jan 13

A Faulty Algorithm Screwed Residents Out of Stanford’s Vaccine Distribution Plan

Medical residents flooded Stanford Hospital on Friday in protest after executives there reportedly used a faulty algorithm to triage its first wave of vaccinations and overwhelmingly left out caregivers working on the front lines of the covid-19 pandemic. Of Stanford Medicine’s roughly 1,300 residents, just seven were chosen to be among the first 5,000 employees…

Health Alyse Stanley Dec 18

Coronavirus Misinformation Was Spreading Online as Early as January

News on the global coronavirus is breaking so quickly that developments can happen on a minute-to-minute basis. But getting the most updated information about covid-19—and discerning which bits are correct—has been hampered severely by a scourge of misinformation spreading like wildfire, as well as a number of public officials who’ve pushed misleading information and in…

Tech News Catie Keck Apr 1

Researchers Build Quantum Vibration Sensor That Can Measure the Smallest Units of Sound

A system that can distinguish phonons, the smallest units of sound, marks an important milestone in the development of more advanced quantum computers. Quantum computers might one day do things difficult or impossible for regular computers to do, but today they’re relatively limited devices; there isn’t usable quantum memory or quantum interfaces between processors, for…

Physics & Chemistry Ryan F. Mandelbaum Jul 30

Stanford’s Eye-Tracking Glasses Automatically Focus On Whatever You’re Looking At

If you don’t already deal with a condition called presbyopia, you probably will by your mid-40s. It’s when the lenses in your eyes lose elasticity making it hard to focus on objects up close, like the words in a book. The solution is to occasionally wear reading glasses or glasses with progressive lenses that can…

Gadgets Andrew Liszewski Jul 2

AI Is the New Secret Weapon in the Quest for Better Batteries

Compared to all the electronics that power the tiny computer in your pocket; battery technology is downright disappointing. Not only does your smartphone need charging every day, but in a few years, its battery will be barely able to hold a charge at all. So how long will your device last? Researchers at Standford University…

Tech News Andrew Liszewski Mar 26

Stanford’s New Institute to Ensure AI Is ‘Representative of Humanity’ Mostly Staffed by White Guys

Stanford University, the bastion of higher education known for manufacturing Silicon Valley’s future, launched the Institute for Human-Centered Artificial Intelligence this week with a massive party. Big names and billionaires like Bill Gates and Gavin Newsom filed into campus to back the stated mission that “the creators and designers of AI must be broadly representative…

Artificial Intelligence Patrick Howell O'Neill Mar 21

Silicon Valley’s Fingerprints Are All Over the College Bribery Scandal

When the insular Silicon Valley venture capital world found out this week that over a dozen local wealthy parents got caught bribing their way into colleges like the University of Southern California, their first reaction was to throw their head back in laughter: They paid $200,000 to get their kid into USC and UCLA, of…

Tech News Patrick Howell O'Neill Mar 15

Particle Accelerator Reveals Ancient Greek Medical Text Beneath Religious Psalms on Parchment

If you’re a history buff, you might not know much particle physics. But the two fields share more in common than you’d think. X-rays from a high-energy lab have revealed ancient Greek medical texts that had been stripped and covered with religious writing. Scientists at the Department of Energy’s SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory have long…

Physics & Chemistry Ryan F. Mandelbaum Mar 13

Scientists Develop Lithium-Ion Battery That Doesn’t Burst Into Flames

Lithium-ion batteries are currently one of the biggest problems in the tech world. The ubiquitous power source has an annoying tendency to burst into flames. But researchers at Stanford University believe they may have found a solution with a built-in flame retardant that doesn’t harm the battery’s performance. https://gizmodo.com/every-phone-has-the-potential-to-explode-1786545025 The Li-ion battery is great for…

Gadgets Rhett Jones Jan 16

Scientists Shoot Lasers at Bird in Goggles to Unravel the Mysteries of Flight

Even when unlocking the very secrets of the universe, one must always put safety first. That’s why researchers at Stanford University 3D-printed a pair of tiny safety goggles before teaching a parrot to fly through lasers. “We would never walk through a laser sheet without any protection,” said assistant professor David Lentink, whose lab studies…

Tech News Hudson Hongo Dec 5

Watch 100 Grams of Robot Pull 4,000 Pounds of Car

Stanford’s μTug minibots are on a roll lately. The latest battery of experiments at Stanford’s Biomimetics and Dextrous Manipulation Lab dealt with harnessing the power of ants in robot form— specifically, researchers hoped to replicate ants’ ability to work together to haul very heavy objects. In the experiments, robots that jump or walk with a…

Tech News Avery Ellis Mar 14

Scientists Squeeze Fertilized Eggs Like Ripe Fruit to See How Viable They Are

Just like a supermarket avocado, the squishiness of fertilized human eggs could hint at how healthy and viable their embryos are—which would be a huge benefit for the millions of in-vitro fertilization babies now being born worldwide. Today, scientists at Stanford University announced that the squishiness of an hour-old fertilized egg could help predict whether…

Tech News Bryan Lufkin Feb 24

Scientists Made a Battery That Could Keep Hoverboards From Exploding

Hoverboards won’t stop exploding lately, perhaps due to overheating batteries. But what if the battery could shut off before all hot and flamey? That’s the idea behind recent research at Stanford, and the benefits go far beyond gimmicky gadgets looking to avoid recalls. Today, Stanford researchers say they’ve made the first lithium-ion battery that shuts…

Tech News Bryan Lufkin Jan 11

What the Computer Chip of the Future Shares With Skyscrapers of 100 Years Ago

Tall buildings were the vanguards of the modern world. They completely changed how cities functioned, bringing forth totally new social and urban systems. The reasons they changed cities are surprisingly similar to the reasons they may change the way computer memory is built. Imagine a skyscraper. Each floor might contain a different company or program–one…

Tech News Kelsey Campbell-Dollaghan Dec 10

This Super-Stable Aluminum Battery Can Charge in 60 Seconds

This may look like a scrap of kitchen foil, but it’s actually a new kind of aluminum battery that could out-perform the lithium-ion cells in your smartphone. Developed by chemists from Stanford, the new battery swaps out lithium from the cell in favor of aluminum. In the past, aluminum batteries have failed fast, managing just…

Tech News Jamie Condliffe Apr 7

Your Phone’s Battery Use Lets Spies Track Your Movements

Spies and cops can use your smartphone to track your movements. That’s no mystery—most smartphones come with a GPS chip that makes it pretty damned simple. So if you don’t want to be tracked, you just turn off the GPS feature, right? Unfortunately, there is another way prying eyes can follow your movements: through your…

Privacy & Security Adam Clark Estes Feb 20

These Gloves Let You Climb a Glass Wall Like a Goddamn Gecko

Geckos are, objectively, way better at climbing stuff than people. Our big sweaty meathooks are no match for the wall-scaling optimized toe pads of a small lizard. That’s why a team at Stanford University is busy making gloves that simulate the sticky grip of the gecko. The Stanford team’s secret ingredient for truly adhesive gecko-inspired…

Tech News Kate Knibbs Nov 19

Google’s Image Recognition Software Can Now Describe Entire Scenes

Image recognition was already good—but it’s getting way, way better. A research collaboration between Google and Stanford University is producing software that increasingly describes the entire scene portrayed in a picture, not just individual objects. The New York Times reports that algorithms written by the team attempt to explain what’s happening in images—in language that…

Tech News Jamie Condliffe Nov 18

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Move Aside, Crypto. AI Could Be The Next Climate Disaster.

A New Stanford Study Uses Facial Recognition to Figure Out If You’re Liberal or Conservative

A Faulty Algorithm Screwed Residents Out of Stanford’s Vaccine Distribution Plan

Coronavirus Misinformation Was Spreading Online as Early as January

Researchers Build Quantum Vibration Sensor That Can Measure the Smallest Units of Sound

Stanford’s Eye-Tracking Glasses Automatically Focus On Whatever You’re Looking At

AI Is the New Secret Weapon in the Quest for Better Batteries

Stanford’s New Institute to Ensure AI Is ‘Representative of Humanity’ Mostly Staffed by White Guys

Silicon Valley’s Fingerprints Are All Over the College Bribery Scandal

Particle Accelerator Reveals Ancient Greek Medical Text Beneath Religious Psalms on Parchment

Scientists Develop Lithium-Ion Battery That Doesn’t Burst Into Flames

Scientists Shoot Lasers at Bird in Goggles to Unravel the Mysteries of Flight

Watch 100 Grams of Robot Pull 4,000 Pounds of Car

Scientists Squeeze Fertilized Eggs Like Ripe Fruit to See How Viable They Are

Scientists Made a Battery That Could Keep Hoverboards From Exploding

What the Computer Chip of the Future Shares With Skyscrapers of 100 Years Ago

This Super-Stable Aluminum Battery Can Charge in 60 Seconds

Your Phone’s Battery Use Lets Spies Track Your Movements

These Gloves Let You Climb a Glass Wall Like a Goddamn Gecko

Google’s Image Recognition Software Can Now Describe Entire Scenes

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