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Computer Sciences
Tech giants warn window to monitor AI reasoning is closing, urge action
Artificial intelligence is advancing at a dizzying speed. Like many new technologies, it offers significant benefits but also poses safety risks. Recognizing the potential dangers, leading researchers from Google DeepMind, ...
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Telecom
Analog repeaters could be the key to practical mmWave deployment
Analog repeaters dramatically enhance millimeter-wave (mmWave) coverage in mobile networks by overcoming signal blockage, report researchers from Science Tokyo. As demonstrated in a field experiment at Ookayama Campus, low-cost ...
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Dexterous robotic hand integrates thermal, inertial and force sensors
While roboticists have introduced increasingly advanced systems over the past decades, most existing robots are not yet able to manipulate objects with the same dexterity and sensing ability as humans. This, in turn, adversely ...

The tap trap: Android security vulnerability discovered
What we see on our mobile phone screens is not always what we are actually operating. This has been demonstrated by a research team at TU Wien (Vienna, Austria), consisting of Philipp Beer, Sebastian Roth, Marco Squarcina, ...
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Can AI really code? Study maps the roadblocks to autonomous software engineering
Imagine a future where artificial intelligence quietly shoulders the drudgery of software development: refactoring tangled code, migrating legacy systems, and hunting down race conditions, so that human engineers can devote ...
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Consumer & Gadgets
When the stakes are high, do machine learning models make fair decisions?
Machine learning is an integral part of high-stakes decision-making in a broad swath of human-computer interactions. You apply for a job. You submit a loan application. Algorithms determine who advances and who is declined.
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Computer Sciences

AI 'coach' helps language models choose between text and code to solve problems
Large language models (LLMs) excel at using textual reasoning to understand the context of a document and provide a logical answer about its contents. But these same LLMs often struggle to correctly answer even the simplest ...
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Business

AI could make these common jobs more productive without sacrificing quality
A study of Chile's workforce finds that AI could "accelerate" nearly half of the tasks performed by the country's 100 most common jobs.
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Electronics & Semiconductors

Researchers develop novel dual-mode MEMS sensor for wide-range vacuum pressure detection
A research team led by Profs. Chen Deyong and Wang Junbo from the Aerospace Information Research Institute (AIR) of the Chinese Academy of Sciences has developed a novel microsensor that enhances both the accuracy and measurement ...
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Machine learning & AI

New research reveals AI has a confidence problem
Large language models (LLMs) sometimes lose confidence when answering questions and abandon correct answers, according to a new study by researchers at Google DeepMind and University College London.
Robotics

Robots now grow and repair themselves by consuming parts from other machines
Today's robots are stuck—their bodies are usually closed systems that can neither grow nor self-repair, nor adapt to their environment. Now, scientists at Columbia University have developed robots that can physically "grow," ...
Jul 16, 2025
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Robotics

Elephant robot demonstrates bioinspired 3D printing technology
A cheetah's powerful sprint, a snake's lithe slither, or a human's deft grasp: Each is made possible by the seamless interplay between soft and rigid tissues. Muscles, tendons, ligaments, and bones work together to provide ...
Jul 16, 2025
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Energy & Green Tech

Solid-state batteries promise faster charging, longer life, and improved safety
Solid-state batteries charge in a fraction of the time, run cooler, and pack more energy into less space than traditional lithium-ion versions.
Jul 16, 2025
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Energy & Green Tech

Wastewater contaminants boost green hydrogen production
Research led by RMIT University has developed an experimental invention to turn wastewater's high contaminant load into an advantage for making green hydrogen that could reduce reliance on fresh water—a scarce resource ...
Jul 16, 2025
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Engineering

Inspired by elephant ears, new wall design could help buildings stay cool and cut energy use
Drawing inspiration from the venous ears of jackrabbits and elephants, Drexel University researchers have come up with a new approach to passive heating and cooling that could one day make buildings more energy efficient. ...
Jul 16, 2025
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Electronics & Semiconductors

A sort-in-memory hardware system eliminates need for comparators in nonlinear sorting tasks
A research team led by Prof. Yang Yuchao from the School of Electronic and Computer Engineering at Peking University Shenzhen Graduate School has achieved a global breakthrough by developing the first sort-in-memory hardware ...
Jul 16, 2025
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