Archivo mensual: febrero 2022

Who Is Behind QAnon? Linguistic Detectives Find Fingerprints

Two teams of forensic linguists traced formative texts from the conspiracy theory-espousing QAnon movement back to two men. Claude-Alain Roten and Lionel Pousaz at Swiss startup OrphAnalytics and French linguists Florian Cafiero and Jean-Baptiste Camps used machine learning to compare … Seguir leyendo

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COVID-19 in the Classroom: Simulating the Spread

Researchers at the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE)’s Argonne National Laboratory used the Summit supercomputer at DOE’s Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL) to simulate the spread of aerosol viral particles in an elementary school classroom. The team used large eddy … Seguir leyendo

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EU Chip Production Plan Aims to Ease Dependency on Asia

The EU has announced a $48-billion plan to curtail its reliance on Asia for semiconductors as part of its Chips Act. European Commission president Ursula von der Leyen said the plan will integrate research, design, and testing, and coordinate European … Seguir leyendo

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Fusion Race Kicked Into High Gear by Smart Tech

U.S. company TAE Technologies is stepping up the race to practical fusion energy by tapping Google’s machine learning (ML) expertise to enhance its self-improving software. The ML expertise is used to optimize TAE’s 100-foot-long fusion cylinder, where fast-moving particles are … Seguir leyendo

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Researchers Use Tiny Magnetic Swirls to Generate True Random Numbers

Magnetic anomalies that manifest in two-dimensional (2D) materials can be harnessed to produce true random numbers, according to Brown University physicists. When 2D materials are excited by electricity or a magnetic field, some electron spins flip with rising energy levels, … Seguir leyendo

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