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Battery breakthrough: Doubling performance with lithium metal that doesn't catch fire

A rechargeable battery technology developed at the University of Michigan could double the output of today's lithium ion cells—drastically extending electric vehicle ranges and time between cell phone charges—without ...

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Remote sensing techniques could improve electrification planning in Zambia

Researchers at the Reiner Lemoine Institut in Berlin have effectively used remote sensing techniques to detect a sample of Zambian villages that are without electricity. Their study, recently published on Springer's Proceedings ...

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Robots have power to significantly influence children's opinions

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Robots will never replace teachers but can boost children's education

Robots can play an important role in the education of young people but will never fully replace teachers, a new study suggests.

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New water-splitting technology brings clean hydrogen fuel one step closer

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DefCon presenters explore programmer de-anonymization, stylistic fingerprints

One of the nicer things about higher education: Gaining awareness of the signature styles of authors, painters, musicians even before we are told their names. Well, signature styles are not just confined to the arts.

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Common WiFi can detect weapons, bombs and chemicals in bags

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App that will extend your smartphone battery life

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DeepMind researchers develop neural arithmetic logic units (NALU)

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Intel processor vulnerability could put millions of PCs at risk

A newly discovered processor vulnerability could potentially put secure information at risk in any Intel-based PC manufactured since 2008. It could affect users who rely on a digital lockbox feature known as Intel Software ...

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Natural refrigerant replacements could reduce energy costs and conserve the environment

The 1987 Montreal Protocol and the 1997 Kyoto Protocol called for countries around the world to phase out substances like CFCs (chlorofluorocarbons), HCFCs (hydrochlorofluorocarbons), and HFCs (hydrofluorocarbons) that deplete ...

Energy & Green Tech

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Tencent Blade Team pair talk about smart speaker hack

Security researchers turned themselves into hackers this month to demo the way a smart speaker could be turned into a spy. The researchers took their story to DefCon 2018. They said they achieved remote eavesdropping. Both ...

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Google tracks your movements, like it or not

Google wants to know where you go so badly that it records your movements even when you explicitly tell it not to.

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Using multi-task learning for low-latency speech translation

Researchers from the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT), in Germany, have recently applied multi-task machine learning to low-latency neural speech translation. Their study, which was pre-published on ArXiv, addresses ...

Computer Sciences

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'Building up' stretchable electronics to be as multipurpose as your smartphone

By stacking and connecting layers of stretchable circuits on top of one another, engineers have developed an approach to build soft, pliable "3-D stretchable electronics" that can pack a lot of functions while staying thin ...

Engineering

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Researchers showed remote style hack for new Macs

What could be a happier moment? You starting work with the setup process of a brand new Mac.

Security

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Zephyr S drone may be satellite contender as Airbus sets endurance record

A drone has set an endurance record that has made headlines. Specifically, The Engineer and other sites reported it was in the air for 25 days, 23 hours and 57 minutes. The UK-built pilotless drone took off from Arizona ...

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A new defensive technique could hold off attackers by making software buggier

Researchers at New York University have recently devised a new cyber defense technique, which works by adding so-called "chaff bugs," non-exploitable bugs, rather than eliminating existing ones. A pre-print version of their ...

Computer Sciences

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Machine learning tool Quicksilver can find overlooked females

Primer's John Bohannon has been discovering people's work and contributions thanks to a machine learning system built at Primer. "It does this much as a human would, if a human could read 500 million news articles, 39 million ...

Internet

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New efficiency record for organic photovoltaic cells

A team of researchers affiliated with several institutions in China has established a new efficiency record for organic photovoltaic cells. In their paper published in the journal Science, the group describes their approach ...

Energy & Green Tech

Aug 10, 2018
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