Engineering
Our society has a love affair with plastic. To take our relationship to the next level—happily ever after in a waste-free future—the path is circular.
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Energy & Green Tech
A major part of making heavy crude oil into gasoline and other products is the fluidic catalytic cracking processing. The process, first used commercially in 1915, has since undergone a variety of refinements but could be ...
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Robotics
In the vast, expansive skies where birds once ruled supreme, a new crop of aviators is taking flight. These pioneers of the air are not living creatures, but rather a product of deliberate innovation: drones. But these aren't ...
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Automotive
Tesla's first-quarter net income tumbled 24% from a year ago as multiple price cuts across its model lineup reduced the amount of money generated per vehicle even as sales rose.
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Business
Microsoft has agreed to buy a $50 million parcel of land in southeastern Wisconsin meant for Foxconn after the world's largest electronics manufacturer failed to fulfill grandiose promises to build a massive facility that ...
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Automotive
Tesla dropped the starting prices for its two top-selling models overnight, the company's fourth price cut in the U.S. this year.
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Consumer & Gadgets
The light and dark sides of AI have been in the public spotlight for many years. Think facial recognition, algorithms making loan and sentencing recommendations, and medical image analysis. But the impressive—and sometimes ...
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Engineering
The impact of a drop on a solid surface is an important phenomenon that has various implications and applications. When the drop splashes, it can cause soil erosion, dispersal of plant pathogens, deterioration of printing ...
Apr 19, 2023
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Electronics & Semiconductors
Today, foldable phones are ubiquitous. Now, using models that predict how well a flexible electronic device will conform to spherical surfaces, University of Wisconsin–Madison and University of Texas at Austin engineers ...
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Consumer & Gadgets
Facebook earned more than $110 billion last year by selling advertisements targeted at its users, powered by the data Facebook collected from them.
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