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Computer Sciences
Using deep learning to control the unconsciousness level of patients in an anesthetic state
In recent years, researchers have been developing machine learning algorithms for an increasingly wide range of purposes. This includes algorithms that can be applied in healthcare settings, for instance helping clinicians ...
Sep 25, 2020
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Energy & Green Tech
New storage battery more efficient and heat-resistant
The share of energy from renewable sources is constantly on the rise in Germany. At the beginning of 2020, for the first time ever, renewable energy was able to cover more than half of the electricity consumed in Germany. ...
Sep 25, 2020
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Engineering
How to bounce back from stretched out stretchable sensors
Elastic can stretch too far, which could be problematic for wearable sensors. A team of researchers at Yokohama National University has proposed a fix to prevent too much stretching while improving the sensing ability of ...
Sep 25, 2020
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Hardware
Microsoft turns to holographic solutions for cloud storage
When people think of holograms, they may think of the small insignia on credit cards that appear to move as you rotate the card. Or they may think of recent rock concert spectacles featuring realistic 3-D performances by ...
Sep 24, 2020 report
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Engineering
Bioelectronic device achieves unprecedented control of cell membrane voltage
In an impressive proof-of-concept demonstration, an interdisciplinary team of scientists has developed a bioelectronic system driven by a machine learning algorithm that can shift the membrane voltage in living cells and ...
Sep 24, 2020
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Robotics
Curling robot able to beat some professional players
A combined team of researchers from Korea and Germany has built an AI-based curling robot that is able to compete at a professional level. In their paper published in the journal Science Robotics, the group describes how ...
Sep 24, 2020 report
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Business
Amazon launches Luna cloud-based video game service
Amazon on Thursday unveiled Luna streaming video game service, challenging Microsoft and Google in the fast-growing segment.
Sep 24, 2020
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Robotics
Researchers develop biomimetic hand prosthesis uniquely similar to a human hand
In the current issue of Science Robotics, researchers from Istituto Italiano di Tecnologia (IIT- Italian Institute of Technology) and Centro Protesi INAIL in Italy reported on their ability to replicate the key biological ...
Sep 23, 2020
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Engineering
This tiny device can scavenge wind energy from the breeze you make when you walk
Most of the wind available on land is too gentle to push commercial wind turbine blades, but now researchers in China have designed a kind of "tiny wind turbine" that can scavenge wind energy from breezes as little as those ...
Sep 23, 2020
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Electronics & Semiconductors
Researchers create ambient vibration energy harvester with automatic resonance tuning mechanism
Korean researchers have developed an energy harvester that can generate electric power from ambient vibrations with diverse frequencies through a novel automatic resonance tuning mechanism. It was recently announced by the ...
Sep 23, 2020
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Consumer & Gadgets
AMD brings Ryzen and Athlon to Chromebooks
AMD announced Tuesday a series of Chromebook mobile processors that are based on optimized Ryzen hardware and VEGA graphics. The CPUs are based on 14 nm and 12 nm process nodes and will give the popular entry-level notebook ...
Sep 23, 2020 report
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Internet
Microsoft adds features to its Teams groupchat product
Microsoft Corp. has announced on its blog that it has added new features to Microsoft Teams, a group chat competitor to Zoom. In its announcement, Microsoft outlined the new features and included screen grabs to demonstrate ...
Sep 23, 2020 report
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Engineering
Researchers combine CAT scans and advanced computing to fight wildfires
As wildfires rage across much of the American West, researchers at Stanford have used CAT scanners, the same instruments used in medicine to peer inside the human body, to understand the process of smoldering—the state ...
Sep 23, 2020
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