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Roundtables: A Conversation With the Creator of AI-Designed Virusesβ7
Stanford PhD student Samuel King discusses using generative AI to design viruses, his Innovators Under 35 honor, and the future of AI-generated life.
Orbia: A New Benchmark for Evaluating 3D Consistency in AIβ9
Orbia introduces a benchmark for systematically evaluating 3D consistency in AI-generated interactive video worlds, testing input preservation, content persiste...
Towards Automatic Digital Garment Assembly: A Learning-Basedβ8
Learn-based methods automate digital garment assembly from 2D patterns, predicting sewing operations and panel placement for 3D drape simulation, integrated int...
The Download: Failed Social Media Bans and Extending Pets' Livesβ7
Social media bans for kids are failing worldwide as children easily bypass them. Why age restrictions don't workβand what we should do instead to keep kids safe...
Love Is Infrastructure: A Story About Self-Aware Cities, Directβ8
Charlie Jane Anders explores self-aware cities, direct democracy, and romance in a future where urban AI anticipates desiresβand asks what love from a city cost...
This Implant Can Restore Sight for Patients with Macular Degenerationβ9
The Prima subretinal implant restores sight for advanced macular degeneration, helping patients read and recognize faces in clinical trials.
Kids Are Outsmarting Social Media BansβThat's Not a Problem Weβ9
As social media bans for minors fail, kids migrate to unregulated online spaces with weaker safety protections, raising risks instead of reducing them.
BD-HazardVLM: New Benchmark Exposes Vision-Language Models' Weakβ9
Vision-language models fail at defensive-driving reasoning in Bangladesh road scenes, a new benchmark shows, with accuracy near majority-class baselines and sev...
The Download: Reviving Frozen Pig Kidneys and Boosting Nuclear Powerβ8
Scientists revived pig kidneys frozen at -150 Β°C for over a year, and nuclear plants may boost output via uprates. Plus, Starlink limits hit Ukraine's drone mis...
Pig Kidneys Frozen for a Year Revived in Cryopreservation Breakthroughβ7
Pig kidneys frozen for a year were successfully thawed and revived using vitrification and nanowarming, a breakthrough that brings human organ banking closer to...