Machine learning & AI
My colleagues and I at Purdue University have uncovered a significant imbalance in the human values embedded in AI systems. The systems were predominantly oriented toward information and utility values and less toward prosocial, ...
Feb 6, 2025
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Energy & Green Tech
A single wind turbine spinning off the U.S. Northeast coast today can power thousands of homes—without the pollution that comes from fossil fuel power plants. A dozen of those turbines together can produce enough electricity ...
Feb 6, 2025
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Energy & Green Tech
Australia's transition to renewables is gathering speed, but there's a looming problem with storage. We will need much more long-duration storage to get us through the night, once coal and fossil gas exit the system.
Feb 6, 2025
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Consumer & Gadgets
Immersive film using virtual reality (VR) or 360-degree video is being used increasingly as a tool for eliciting empathy and emotional identification in fact-based stories. Unlike traditional flat film, immersive films allow ...
Feb 6, 2025
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Automotive
NASA's Sustainable Flight Demonstrator (SFD) project recently concluded wind tunnel tests of its X-66 semi-span model in partnership with Boeing. The model, designed to represent half the aircraft, allows the research team ...
Feb 6, 2025
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Consumer & Gadgets
Science fiction film and television has long been fascinated by robots. But stories that show us uncannily human cyborgs have often tended to veer towards either comedy or horror. Fritz Lang's "Metropolis" (1927) and Ridley ...
Feb 6, 2025
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Energy & Green Tech
University of Guelph (U of G) researchers have developed a slime-like material that produces electricity when compressed. When the team studied their prototype using the Canadian Light Source (CLS) at the University of Saskatchewan, ...
Feb 6, 2025
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Business
A small team of AI researchers from Stanford University and the University of Washington has found a way to train an AI reasoning model for a fraction of the price paid by big corporations that produce widely known products ...
Electronics & Semiconductors
An international research team led by the Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya—BarcelonaTech (UPC) has created a hybrid device that combines, for the first time ever, molecular solar thermal energy storage with silicon-based ...
Feb 6, 2025
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Machine learning & AI
Efforts to build artificial intelligence (AI) that could solve all the world's problems at a stroke are "nonsense", leading researcher Michael Jordan told scientists in Paris ahead of next week's global AI summit.
Feb 6, 2025
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