Technology
206 verified facts in this category, showing 101–200.
- A joint cybersecurity advisory identified QTFY as a China-linked hacking group targeting military and critical infrastructure with malicious distributed systems.
- Google's smile-detection model used a racial classifier trained on four race subgroups and a gender classifier with two categories.
- Michael Marcus spent 25 years at the Federal Communications Commission, where he helped develop policies that made more than eight gigahertz of radio spectrum available for unlicensed use.
- The US Copyright Office is refusing to grant copyrights to images and text generated by AI, a policy that has raised concerns from organizations including the Motion Picture Association of America.
- At Insilico Medicine, human chemists still synthesize AI-proposed drugs, create variants, and test them on animals, and CEO Alex Zhavoronkov said those human contributors are the people who will be named on the patent.
- A study (arXiv 2411.12990) found that commonly used AI benchmarks suffer from significant issues and exhibit large differences in quality.
- Llama3-RankRAG significantly outperformed Llama3-ChatQA-1.5 and GPT-4 models on nine knowledge-intensive benchmarks.
- The Antiproton Decelerator was built from the Antiproton Collector (AC).
- The QWERTY keyboard layout was designed in the 1870s partly to prevent mechanical typewriter jams by separating commonly used letter pairs.
- LCD displays work by twisting liquid crystal molecules with electric fields; without power, some LCDs appear white while others appear black.
- In the PacifAIst benchmark evaluation, Google's Gemini 2.5 Flash achieved the highest overall Pacifism Score among eight evaluated models, scoring 90.31%.
- The algorithm proposed in the paper 'Semantic Discord: Finding Unusual Local Patterns for Time Series' is up to 3 orders of magnitude faster than a brute force algorithm on real world data.
- FAMAS estimates the likelihood that an individual agent action caused a failure by comparing variations across repeated executions of the same multi-agent system.
- Atlas outperformed six other leading AI pathology models on six of nine shared benchmark tests.
- The study documents growing disparities in access to supercomputing resources and AI expertise, which are increasingly concentrated in a small number of regions dominated by the United States and China.
- Semiconductor-based LEDs have reduced electricity consumption for public lighting by a factor of five compared to incandescent bulbs.
- Semiconductor-based LEDs have reduced electricity consumption for lighting by a factor of five compared to incandescent bulbs.
- At the end of June 2023, the Netherlands announced restrictions on exporting deep ultraviolet (DUV) lithography machines to China.
- Smartphone or tablet-based time use surveys can passively collect data such as geolocation for activities and periods when the device was in use.
- Helix has since shut down its app store and stopped selling genome sequencing directly to consumers.
- Transformer architectures emerged in 2017, leading to a significant leap in AI capabilities.
- Under the draft EU AI Regulation, conformance with harmonised standards creates a presumption of conformity for high-risk AI applications and services.
- FindZebra uses the open source information retrieval tool Indri to search its index.
- FindZebra's search index is built by crawling curated databases including the Online Mendelian Inheritance in Man database, the Genetic and Rare Diseases Information Center, and Orphanet.
- A study published October 28, 2023, in NPJ Digital Medicine, volume 6, article 201, reported on artificial-intelligence-assisted point-of-care ultrasound for assessing left ventricular ejection fraction.
- FrontierMath is a math benchmark whose difficult questions remain unpublished so that AI companies cannot train their models against them.
- Ars Technica published an article titled 'Spectre, Meltdown researchers unveil 7 more speculative execution attacks' on November 14, 2018.
- The UK has an AI Security Institute involved in testing AI models' cybersecurity behavior.
- The monograph introduces an approach called the Atypical Signal Analysis and Processing (ASAP) schema for identifying atypical, out-of-the-ordinary behavior potentially related to terror activity.
- Atlas, an AI pathology model developed by Aignostics and the Mayo Clinic, was trained on 1.2 million tissue samples from 490,000 cases.
- SBLD and textual searches for failure-related patterns were roughly equally effective at reducing diagnostic effort, but textual search achieved slightly better recall.
- In an industrial dataset evaluation, SBLD produced a statistically significant reduction in the effort required to identify all failure-relevant events in a failing run.
- RankRAG instruction-tunes a single large language model to perform both context ranking and answer generation for retrieval-augmented generation (RAG).
- The IEEE 802.15.3a High Rate Alternative PHY Task Group targeted a UWB standard capable of at least 110 Mbps at 10 meters, with higher speeds at shorter distances, for applications including high-definition audio/video streaming and cable replacement.
- In February 2002, the FCC allowed limited use of ultra-wideband (UWB) techniques in the 3.1–10-GHz spectrum.
- The term 'advanced persistent threat' can also refer to non-state-sponsored groups conducting large-scale targeted intrusions for specific goals.
- ADRON-RM is part of the science payload aboard the European Space Agency's Rosalind Franklin rover.
- ADRON-RM is a neutron spectrometer designed to search for subsurface water ice and hydrated minerals.
- The National Security Agency (NSA) was reportedly involved in the Aquacade satellite program.
- The paper introduces the concept of 'time series discords,' defined as subsequences of a longer time series that are maximally different from all other subsequences of that series.
- The SEC's 2023 cybersecurity disclosure rules require public companies to provide annual reports on cybersecurity risk management and governance.
- FAMAS is described as the first spectrum-based failure-attribution approach specifically designed for multi-agent systems (MASs).
- Google's smile-detection approach improved the previous accuracy record on the FotW benchmark by a little over 1.5 percentage points.
- The first transistor was made in 1947.
- The European Union's AI Act defines distinct legal roles of 'providers' (developers) and 'deployers'.
- Patricia Shaw is an IEEE CertifAIEd AI ethics assessor.
- Interval Research Corporation was financed by Microsoft cofounder Paul Allen.
- The primary-source files on the American Memory website were made available for classroom use through the Library of Congress's Teaching with Primary Sources Program.
- American Memory provided electronic versions of primary-source materials in multiple formats, including manuscripts, films, sound recordings, and photographs.
- The NSA collaborated with the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) on the '2026 Minimum Elements for a Software Bill of Materials (SBOM)'.
- The NSA joined the FBI and other organizations in releasing #STOPRANSOMWARE guidance concerning Gunra ransomware.
- The NSA released two technical reports addressing threats to application-specific integrated circuits (ASICs).
- The National Security Agency joined the FBI and Cyber National Mission Force in warning about cyber activity by the Chinese hacking group QTFY.
- Briefs filed in Supreme Court cases are linked within case dockets beginning in November 2017.
- In the Supreme Court's Case Citation Finder, the query '544 AND city' can retrieve citations from volume 544 U.S. in which a party's name contains the word 'city.'
- Electronic versions of most Supreme Court filings submitted after November 13, 2017, are available through the docket for the particular case.
- Researchers created a benchmark called VPBench, a visually prompted benchmark containing 16 visual marker variants.
- The paper 'Crowdsourced wireless spectrum anomaly detection' addresses anomaly detection across three dimensions of wireless-spectrum monitoring: frequency, time, and space.
- The authors of 'Crowdsourced wireless spectrum anomaly detection' develop schemes for generalizing user feedback across sensors to close the anomaly-detection loop.
- An advanced persistent threat gains unauthorized access to a computer network and remains undetected for an extended period.
- An advanced persistent threat (APT) is a stealthy cybersecurity threat typically orchestrated by a state or state-sponsored group.
- Some theorists suggest that the exponential rate of technological change observed in recent history implies faster and more profound technological change in the future.
- Accelerating change is a concept in futures studies and the history of technology describing the observed exponential nature of the rate of technological change in recent history.
- The Rosalind Franklin rover is planned to be launched not earlier than 2028.
- The paper 'Finding the most unusual time series subsequence: algorithms and applications' has the DOI 10.5555/1201768.1201772.
- FAMAS uses systematic trajectory replay and abstraction before applying spectrum analysis to multi-agent system execution trajectories.
- The NIOSH Employed Labor Force (ELF) query system covers data from 1980 through the present.
- MIT Technology Review's 2026 Breakthrough Technologies list is the 25th annual edition of the list.
- The GOSAT-2 satellite was launched on October 29, 2018.
- The GOSAT satellite was launched in 2009.
- The publisher of the paper 'Harmonising Artificial Intelligence' is the Oxford Commission on AI and Good Governance.
- The paper 'Harmonising Artificial Intelligence' was published by Oxford Information Labs in 2021.
- FindZebra is publicly available at www.findzebra.com.
- Apple's iTunes U application launched in January 2012.
- AI models evaluated against FrontierMath include Anthropic's Claude 3.5.
- AI models evaluated against FrontierMath include OpenAI's GPT-4o and o1-preview.
- The FrontierMath benchmark was developed by Epoch AI.
- The article 'New Theory Cracks Open the Black Box of Deep Neural Networks' was originally published by Quanta Magazine.
- Fraud detection is an example application of anomaly detection techniques.
- The WIRED article about the EU child sexual abuse material scanning proposal was written by Vas Panagiotopoulos.
- The UNESCO Sites Navigator is an online geographic information system that displays georeferenced maps of UNESCO-designated sites.
- The American Memory website made the Library of Congress's exhibitions available online.
- The paper arXiv 2411.12990 was accepted as a Spotlight Poster to NeurIPS 2024.
- A study comparing SBLD configurations (using minimum, median, and maximum available data) to textual search used Wilcoxon signed-rank tests and the Vargha–Delaney measure of stochastic superiority.
- Spectrum-Based Log Diagnosis (SBLD) was developed by Carl Martin Rosenberg and Leon Moonen.
- The RankRAG article was published on 10 December 2024 by Curran Associates Inc. in Red Hook, New York, United States.
- Quantum mechanics concepts and methods have been applied to quantum technology.
- The article 'IC Failure Analysis: Magic, Mystery, and Science' has the DOI 10.1109/54.605998.
- The article 'IC Failure Analysis: Magic, Mystery, and Science' was published in IEEE Design & Test, Volume 14, Issue 3.
- The article 'IC Failure Analysis: Magic, Mystery, and Science' was authored by Jerry M. Soden, Richard E. Anderson, and Chris L. Henderson.
- The paper 'Semantic Discord: Finding Unusual Local Patterns for Time Series' was first submitted to arXiv on 30 January 2020.
- The paper 'Finding the most unusual time series subsequence: algorithms and applications' lists its subject keywords as anomaly detection, clustering, and time series data mining.
- The paper 'Finding the most unusual time series subsequence: algorithms and applications' was authored by Eamonn Keogh, Jessica Lin, Sang-Hee Lee, and Helga Van Herle.
- 'CodeImprove: Program Adaptation for Deep Code Models' was published in the Proceedings of the IEEE/ACM 47th International Conference on Software Engineering on 27 April 2025, spanning pages 514–526.
- The publication date of 'Harmonising Artificial Intelligence' is December 2021.
- The paper 'Harmonising Artificial Intelligence' is designated as Working paper 2021.5 of the Oxford Commission on AI & Good Governance.
- The working paper 'Harmonising Artificial Intelligence: The Role of Standards in the EU AI Regulation' was authored by Mark McFadden, Kate Jones, Emily Taylor and Georgia Osborn.
- The paper 'The unusual suspects' by N. Fatma, M. Chinnakotla, M. Shrivastava, S. Singh, and S. Markovitch appeared in the Proceedings of the Thirty-First AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence on 4 February 2017, spanning pages 1107–1113.
- The paper 'Large-scale network motif analysis using compression' by P. Bloem and S. de Rooij was published online on 23 June 2020 in Data Mining and Knowledge Discovery, volume 34, issue 5, pages 1421–1453.
- The article 'Math may have caught up with Google's quantum-supremacy claims' was written by John Timmer, Ars Technica's science editor.