Discovering the transporters used by specific drugs can have profound impacts on patient care, and can also inform drug development. Drugs taken orally must pass through the digestive tract, and this often happens via transporter proteins. But, it's often unknown which transporter a certain drug uses to exit the digestive tract, and this could potentially…
In 2010, MIT Media Lab graduate students Karthik Dinakar and Birago Jones collaborated on a project aimed at helping Twitter and YouTube content moderation teams detect problematic content. One daunting challenge they initially faced was understanding the nuanced and coded language that posters were using. This hurdle sparked an understanding that successful model development required…
The University of Cambridge's research team is making strides towards creating a robotic "third thumb" designed to increase human productivity and dexterity. This innovation, which you wear on the hand opposite to your natural thumb, is the handiwork of the university's Head Designer & Senior Technical Specialist at Plasticity Lab, Dani Clode. This invention was…
Artists are turning to a new social platform, Cara, developed by Singaporean photographer and director Jingna Zhang, as a move to shield their artwork from unauthorized AI training applications on mainstream platforms like Facebook and Instagram. Zhang launched Cara in April 2023 as a protective measure for artists against data scraping for AI, and the…
Last week, Google's AI Overviews search feature faced a failure, providing inaccurate and comical answers to user queries. AI Overviews, an AI tool developed by Google, uses data from the internet to answer search requests without the need for users to hop through multiple websites.
Google recognised the issue and stated that an improvement is underway.…