Industria 4.0

Industria 4.0

A global IT outage brought supply chains to their knees—we need to be better prepared next time
25/07/2024 - Friday's global IT outage—caused by a faulty software update from cybersecurity firm Crowdstrike—wrought havoc on business operations around the world.
Meta oversight board wants deepfake rules for AI Age
25/07/2024 - Meta's oversight board on Thursday called on the tech titan to bring its rules regarding porn deepfakes out of the "photoshop" days and into the era of artificial intelligence.
Mark Zuckerberg, AI's 'open source' evangelist
25/07/2024 - Mark Zuckerberg, the founder of Facebook and CEO of Meta, has become an unexpected evangelist for open source technology when it comes to developing artificial intelligence, pitting him against...
Foam fluidics showcase team's creative approach to circuit design
25/07/2024 - When picturing next-generation wearables and robotics, the foam filling in your couch cushions is likely not the first thing that comes to mind. However, Rice University engineers have shown that...
Trajectory planning could boost safety in medical robotics
25/07/2024 - Using a newly-devised complex algorithm, the researchers have created a perfectly choreographed "dance" using two robotic arms, continuously retaining a clear space between them—where a...
Ensuring safety and fairness in artificial intelligence
25/07/2024 - Many decisions that were previously made by humans will be left to machines in the future. But can we really rely on the decisions made by artificial intelligence? In sensitive areas, people would...
Sea slug feeding structure model informs soft robot design
25/07/2024 - Carnegie Mellon University researchers at the Biohybrid and Organic Robotics Group (B.O.R.G.) led by Victoria Webster-Wood, in collaboration with researchers at Case Western Reserve University, are...
Opening a window on environmental phenomena with new imaging technology
24/07/2024 - Data collected by satellites, drones, radars and microscopes provide a goldmine of information to better understand our environment. And when these data are coupled with artificial intelligence (AI),...
Social robot or digital avatar, users interact with this AI technology as if it's real
24/07/2024 - Humans are interacting more than ever with artificial intelligence (AI)—from the development of the first "social robots" (a robot with a physical body programmed to interact and engage...
Crowdstrike blames bug for letting bad data slip through, leading to global tech outage
24/07/2024 - Crowdstrike is blaming a bug in an update that allowed its cybersecurity systems to push bad data out to millions of customer computers, setting off last week's global tech outage that grounded...
In fuel-guzzling Saudi Arabia, electric cars pique interest
24/07/2024 - For Hamed al-Rafidain, a Saudi human resources worker, an electric vehicle offers welcome savings, especially since his other car is a fuel-guzzling four-wheel drive favored by motorists in the...
Tesla's 2Q profit falls 45% to $1.48 billion as sales drop despite price cuts and low-interest loans
24/07/2024 - Tesla's second-quarter net income fell 45% compared with a year ago as the company's global electric vehicle sales tumbled despite price cuts and low-interest financing.
Scientists use machine learning to explore effects of cushion gases on underground hydrogen storage
24/07/2024 - Los Alamos National Laboratory scientists are developing powerful machine learning models—an application of artificial intelligence—to simulate underground hydrogen storage operations under...
Multimodal agent can iteratively design experiments to better understand various components of AI systems
24/07/2024 - As artificial intelligence models become increasingly prevalent and are integrated into diverse sectors like health care, finance, education, transportation, and entertainment, understanding how they...