AOL's dial up internet takes its last bow, marking the end of an era
It's official: AOL's dial-up internet has taken its last bow.
Oct 1, 2025
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Software
Graffiti framework lets people personalize online social spaces while staying connected with others
Say a local concert venue wants to engage its community by giving social media followers an easy way to share and comment on new music from emerging artists. Rather than working within the constraints of existing social platforms, ...
Oct 1, 2025
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Energy & Green Tech
Dams for development? Unpacking tensions in the World Bank's hydropower policies
Dams have been emblematic of the World Bank's approach to development for many decades. From the bank's early years in the 1960s and 1970s, large-scale infrastructure projects such as dams, power plants and transport networks ...
Oct 1, 2025
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Engineering
Battery cathode recycling achieved with single-step process
A new battery recycling method developed by Illinois Grainger engineers removes scarce, expensive metals from old battery cathodes and coats them onto new cathodes in a single step. The result is significantly more affordable, ...
Oct 1, 2025
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Consumer & Gadgets
'Embodied' AI in virtual reality improves programming student confidence
Researchers have found that giving AI "peers" in virtual reality (VR) a body that can interact with the virtual environment can help students learn programming. Specifically, the researchers found students were more willing ...
Oct 1, 2025
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Consumer & Gadgets
Six ways chatbots seek to prolong 'emotionally sensitive events'
Every day, people turn to AI chatbots for companionship, support, and even romance. The hard part, new research suggests, is turning away.
Oct 1, 2025
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Machine learning & AI
Dialogue systems learn new words with fewer questions
Researchers at the University of Osaka have developed a mechanism that allows spoken dialog systems to learn new words through conversation without overwhelming users with repetitive questions. By optimizing when to ask a ...
Oct 1, 2025
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Robotics
Shape-changing robots: New AI-driven design tool optimizes performance and functionality
Like octopuses squeezing through a tiny sea cave, metatruss robots can adapt to demanding environments by changing their shape. These mighty morphing robots are made of trusses composed of hundreds of beams and joints that ...
Oct 1, 2025
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Software
Software supports safe, controlled detonations of aerial bombs
Time and again, unexploded aerial bombs from the Second World War need to be defused or detonated in controlled explosions. Researchers at the Fraunhofer Institute for High-Speed Dynamics, Ernst-Mach-Institut, EMI are working ...
Oct 1, 2025
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Business
Meta to use AI chats to personalize ads, content
Meta will begin using people's conversations with its artificial intelligence chatbot to tailor the ads and content they see on Facebook and Instagram, the social media giant announced Wednesday.
Oct 1, 2025
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