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Capsules embedded between layers of this fake tissue simulate human blood and pus. Small 3D-printed liquid capsules inserted between layers of tissue burst open, mimicking blood, when surgeons make an incision. Breakthroughs, discoveries, and DIY tips sent every weekday. Budding surgeons may soon train on stretchy, lifelike 3D-printed skin that oozes out blood and pus when cut. A new printable material developed by researchers at the University of Minnesota Twin Cities more closely mimics the adaptive nature of human tissue.

Gone are the days where a billboard at the side of the road and an expensive TV advert during the X Factor were enough to get your product noticed. Now you've got to advertise in online video games, such as Roblox. If you haven't heard of Roblox, it's basically a more rubbish version of Minecraft. Instead of creating worlds, people – mostly children – create complete games. Roblox now houses more than 50m games that can be played on your phone, computer or games console, and 19% of all children in the UK are said to play it. It has had its success stories, turning the occasional teenager into a millionaire from their bedroom, but it also has a dark side, with children running up bills in the thousands buying pixelated meta-tat and, worse, receiving allegations of games being used for grooming.

An actual, if elderly and ailing, Havanese is looking up at me as I work, and an Avedon portrait book is open on my desk. What could be more beguiling than combining the two? Then my laptop stutters and pauses, and there it is, eerily similar to what Richard Avedon would have done if confronted with a Havanese. The stark expression, the white background, the implicit anxiety, the intellectual air, the implacable confrontational exchange with the viewer--one could quibble over details, but it is close enough to count. My Havedon is, of course, an image produced by an artificial-intelligence image generator--DALL-E 2, in this case--and the capacity of such systems to make astonishing images in short order is, by now, part of the fabric of our time, or at least our pastimes.

MIT engineers are hoping to help doctors tailor treatments to patients' specific heart form and function, with a custom robotic heart. The team has developed a procedure to 3D print a soft and flexible replica of a patient's heart. No two hearts beat alike. The size and shape of the the heart can vary from one person to the next. These differences can be particularly pronounced for people living with heart disease, as their hearts and major vessels work harder to overcome any compromised function.

An AI has created hilarious postcard images of popular British tourist attractions, based solely on snippets from one-star Trip Advisor reviews. Text-to-image tool DALL-E, released by artificial intelligence firm OpenAI, is able to create images and artwork from text prompts. UK rental agency My Favourite Cottages used it to reimagine tourist spots including Stonehenge, Angel of the North, Brighton Palace Pier and Cornwall's Eden Project. Some of the results have a passing resemblance to the real thing, while others are like a window into a dystopian nightmare. DALL-E relies on artificial neural networks (ANNs), which simulate the way the brain works in order to learn.

A team of scientists at the Max Planck Society recently published astounding new research indicating they've pushed the field of "organoids," to a bold new frontier. Up front: Organoids are synthetic biological constructs that mimic human organs to various degrees. Scientists grow organoids by programming stem cell clusters. Essentially, they feed the clusters the necessary components to spark their growth, and then they employ a series of limiters to guide them into becoming the kind of organoid we want. The ultimate hope is that we'll be able to grow organ analogs -- synthetic liver or brain organoids, for example -- that we can use to advance our scientific and medical knowledge.

Sarah Vitak: This is Scientific American's 60 Second Science. Early last year a TikTok of Tom Cruise doing a magic trick went viral. I mean, it's all the real thing."] Matt Groh: A deepfake is a video where an individual's face has been altered by a neural network to make an individual do or say something that the individual has not done or said. Vitak: That is Matt Groh, a Ph.D. student and researcher at the M.I.T. Media Lab. Groh: It seems like there's a lot of anxiety and a lot of worry about deepfakes and our inability to, you know, know the difference between real or fake. Vitak: But he points out that the videos posted on the Deep Tom Cruise account aren't your standard deepfakes. The creator, Chris Umé, went back and edited individual frames by hand to remove any mistakes or flaws left behind by the algorithm. It takes him about 24 hours of work for each 30-second clip. It makes the videos look eerily realistic. But without that human touch, a lot of flaws show up in ...

We are excited to bring Transform 2022 back in-person July 19 and virtually July 20 - 28. Join AI and data leaders for insightful talks and exciting networking opportunities. To deploy successful AI, organizations need data to train models. That said, high-quality data isn't always easy to access – creating a major hurdle for organizations in launching AI initiatives. This is where synthetic data can be so useful. As opposed to data that is collected from and measured in the real world, synthetic data is generated in the digital world by computer simulations, algorithms, simple rules, statistical modeling, simulation, and other techniques.