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Researchers Uncover Cell Structures That Squids Use to Change Their Appearance

July 10, 2025 By examining squid skin cells three-dimensionally, a University of California, Irvine-led team has unveiled the structures responsible for the creatures’ ability to dynamically change their appearance from transparent to arbitrarily colored states. The group of scientist
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An AI That’s a Better Friend—And Maybe a Lifeline for Humanity

July 9, 2025 Most AI chatbots feel like a goldfish. You have a conversation, maybe even a deep one, and the next time you interact, it’s as if you never met. No memory, no continuity, just a blank slate. Bill Tomlinson, a professor at UC Irvine’s Donald Bren School of Information and
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Fourth Director of CALIT2 Steps into Office

Professor Athina Markopoulou has been selected as the next director of the California Institute for Telecommunications and Information Technology at UC Irvine effective July 1.
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A Smartwatch App for Monitoring Intoxication

What if your smartwatch could send an alert when you’ve had too much to drink, warning you not to get behind the wheel of a car and drive? This is exactly the type of application researchers from UC Irvine’s Donald Bren School of Information and Computer Sciences (ICS) are working to
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