Energy & Green Tech
A new study overcomes a key challenge to switching commercial aircraft in the U.S. from their near-total reliance on fossil fuels to more sustainable aviation fuels. The study details a cost-effective method for producing ...
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Engineering
Electromagnetic induction (EI), or the production of voltage across a conductor by varying the magnetic field or by moving the conductor through a fixed magnetic field, is one of the most traditional methods of converting ...
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Business
Last week the billionaire and owner of X, Elon Musk, claimed the pool of human-generated data that's used to train artificial intelligence (AI) models such as ChatGPT has run out.
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Computer Sciences
Birth asphyxia (BA) is a condition that occurs when newborn babies do not receive enough oxygen during delivery, and it's one of the primary causes of neonatal death. Developing countries, particularly in sub-Saharan Africa, ...
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Energy & Green Tech
Burning waste to generate heat and electricity was deemed the UK's "dirtiest form of power" in a BBC investigation in October 2024, after the country's last coal plant closed the month before.
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Consumer & Gadgets
The mobile game advertisements that pop up all over social media platforms may promise better, more complete games than they actually deliver. Researchers at Penn State studying these "fake games"—or those that promote ...
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Business
Tesla founder Elon Musk made his stance on environmental, social and governance (ESG) ratings unmistakably clear in June 2023 when he posted "ESG is the devil" on his social media platform, X. Musk, a well-known critic of ...
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Machine learning & AI
The progress of artificial intelligence (AI) has been relentless. With OpenAI's latest model, o3, recently breaking records yet again, it raises urgent questions about safety, as well as the future of humanity.
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Security
Federated learning represents a significant shift in the landscape of machine learning, enabling many clients or devices to collaboratively train models while substantially enhancing the privacy of the data involved.
Internet
British computer scientist and Internet Hall of Fame inductee Peter Kirstein died in January 2020 at the age of 86, after a nearly 50-year career at UCL. A few years before he died, he was commissioned by then Conversation ...
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