VR headsets as ‘hope machines’: Devices offer California inmates respite, practical experience

A nonprofit uses VR headsets to offer inmates practical scenarios like job interviews alongside travel experiences, providing ...
IEEE

Finite State Machines-Based Path-Following Collaborative Computing Strategy for Emergency UAV Swarms

Abstract: Offloading services to UAV swarms for delay-sensitive tasks in Emergency UAV Networks (EUN) can greatly enhance rescue efficiency. Most task-offloading strategies assumed that UAV s were ...
Nature

AI models were given four weeks of therapy: the results worried researchers

Chatbots put through psychotherapy report trauma and abuse. Authors say models are doing more than role play, but researchers ...
IEEE

Finite-Difference Time-Domain Simulation of Wave Propagation in Space-Time-Varying Media: Derivation of schemes, extended framework, and illustrative examples

Abstract: We present a comprehensive tutorial on the finite-difference time-domain (FDTD) modeling of space, time, and space-time-varying media, building upon our previous review by offering a ...
Microsoft

Asynchronous Programming, Analysis and Testing with State Machines

Programming efficient asynchronous systems is challenging because it can often be hard to express the design declaratively, or to defend against interleaving-dependent bugs such as data races and ...