EU digital chief urges TikTok to quickly adopt new rules
The European commissioner overseeing the digital market on Wednesday urged Chinese video-sharing platform TikTok to accelerate its adoption of new EU standards.
Jul 19, 2023
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Consumer & Gadgets
AI has personalities and they're sometimes mean
It's bad enough most of us must deal on occasion with coworkers or store clerks who are tactless or rude. And the more we entrust our finances, transactions and business affairs to automated representatives, the more frustration ...
Energy & Green Tech
New catalysts for solar hydrogen production
Finding sustainable and clean fuels is crucial in today's global energy and climate crisis. One promising candidate that is increasingly gaining interest is hydrogen. However, today's industrial hydrogen production still ...
Jul 19, 2023
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Engineering
Using dragonfly wings to redesign a Boeing 777 to be lighter, stronger and more sustainable
Throughout history, humans have observed and sought inspiration from many aspects of nature to improve flight efficiency, maneuverability, and stability. And since the days of Leonardo da Vinci, nature-inspired design, also ...
Jul 19, 2023
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Electronics & Semiconductors
New gate-tunable and high-mobility devices based on strontium titanate
Strontium titanate (SrTiO3), an oxide of strontium and titanium with a perovskite structure, has many advantageous properties, including spin-orbit coupling, electrical tunability, and unconventional superconductivity. Compared ...
Automotive
Tata picks Britain for £4-bn electric car battery plant
Indian conglomerate Tata Group announced Wednesday that it will build a gigafactory in Britain to manufacture batteries, as nations accelerate away from fossil fuel vehicles.
Jul 19, 2023
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Business
Broadcom's $69 billion VMware purchase wins UK competition watchdog's approval
Computer chip and software maker Broadcom's $69 billion plan to buy cloud technology company VMware cleared another hurdle Wednesday after Britain's competition regulator gave the deal provisional clearance.
Jul 19, 2023
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Software
Learning from superheroes and AI: How a chatbot can teach kids supportive self-talk
At first, some parents were wary: An audio chatbot was supposed to teach their kids to speak positively to themselves through lessons about a superhero named Zip. In a world of Siri and Alexa, many people are skeptical that ...
Jul 19, 2023
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Machine learning & AI
Exec tells first UN council meeting that big tech can't be trusted to guarantee AI safety
The handful of big tech companies leading the race to commercialize AI can't be trusted to guarantee the safety of systems we don't yet understand and that are prone to "chaotic or unpredictable behavior," an artificial intelligence ...
Jul 19, 2023
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