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  1. Computing

    New computer chips do math with light

    Two companies have announced photonic devices that could solve specific real-world problems faster and with less energy than conventional computers.

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  2. Artificial Intelligence

    More brainlike computers could change AI for the better

    New brain-inspired hardware, architectures and algorithms could lead to more efficient, more capable forms of AI.

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  3. Computing

    This engineer’s light-based computers take inspiration from the brain

    Physicist and engineer Bhavin Shastri is working to create the first photonic computer modeled after the human brain.

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  4. Space

    How to build an internet on Mars

    Future Red Planet inhabitants will need new ways to connect, including improved relay networks and an offshoot internet.

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  5. Artificial Intelligence

    AI chatbots can be tricked into misbehaving. Can scientists stop it?

    To develop better safeguards, computer scientists are studying how people have manipulated generative AI chatbots into answering harmful questions.

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  6. Health & Medicine

    50 years ago, X-rays provided an unprecedented look inside the brain

    CT scans can now image the whole body and are even used in other scientific fields such as archaeology, zoology and physics.

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  7. Artificial Intelligence

    How artificial intelligence sharpens blurry thermal vision images

    A thermal imaging technique uses a special camera and AI to create clear images and accurately gauge distances of objects, even in pitch-blackness

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  8. Computing

    Huijia Lin proved that a master tool of cryptography is possible

    Cryptographer Huijia Lin showed that the long-sought “indistinguishability obfuscation” is secure from data attacks.

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  9. Neuroscience

    An AI can decode speech from brain activity with surprising accuracy

    Developed by Facebook’s parent company, Meta, the AI could eventually be used to help people who can’t communicate through speech, typing or gestures.

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