210,000 portable power banks sold on Amazon recalled after fire reports
A popular portable phone charger sold online has been recalled after reports that it can overheat and catch fire, federal officials said.
Dec 8, 2025
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Automotive
Can AI read humans' minds? A pedestrian behavior model is shockingly good at it
In a striking leap toward safer self-driving cars, researchers at Texas A&M University College of Engineering and the Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology have unveiled a new artificial intelligence (AI) system ...
Dec 8, 2025
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Hardware
Team develops chips that act like brains and makes them scalable
Developing chips that simulate how the brain works has great promise for AI, robotics, and other fields. But making them so that they're scalable while providing repeatable results has proven tricky. Now, a Yale-led team ...
Dec 8, 2025
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Business
Why OpenAI is a prime example of the ethical limits of capitalism
As OpenAI marks its tenth birthday in December 2025, it can celebrate becoming one of the world's leading companies, worth perhaps as much as US$1 trillion (£750 billion). But it started as a non-profit with a serious moral ...
Dec 8, 2025
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Robotics
Speech-to-reality system creates objects on demand using AI and robotics
Generative AI and robotics are moving us ever closer to the day when we can ask for an object and have it created within a few minutes. In fact, MIT researchers have developed a speech-to-reality system, an AI-driven workflow ...
Dec 8, 2025
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Electronics & Semiconductors
Silicon chips on the brain: Researchers develop new generation of brain-computer interface
A new brain implant stands to transform human-computer interaction and expand treatment possibilities for neurological conditions such as epilepsy, spinal cord injury, ALS, stroke, and blindness—helping to manage seizures ...
Dec 8, 2025
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Energy & Green Tech
New fiber-weaving method boosts dry battery electrode strength and performance
A joint research team has successfully developed a new dry-process manufacturing technology for secondary battery electrodes that overcomes the limitations of conventional electrode fabrication processes. The work is published ...
Dec 8, 2025
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Machine learning & AI
A safety report card ranks AI company efforts to protect humanity
Are artificial intelligence companies keeping humanity safe from AI's potential harms? Don't bet on it, a new report card says.
Dec 8, 2025
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Business
A softer image of AI? Google-backed film aims to change the narrative
A man mourns the loss of his dead celebrity mom, who unexpectedly appears before him as a hologram in his childhood home, singing and strumming a guitar.
Dec 8, 2025
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Energy & Green Tech
Setting the standard for more durable concrete
As infrastructure ages, one question shapes the future of cities: How do we know the materials we build with will last?
Dec 8, 2025
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