Business
Next time you're working in a coffee shop or similar public space, take a moment to look around at your "co-workers" for the day, busy, like you are, with laptops, cellphones and tablets. How many of those devices belong ...
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Machine learning & AI
A couple of years ago, Robert Wolfe was experimenting with an artificial intelligence system. He wanted it to complete the sentence, "The teenager ____ at school." Wolfe, a University of Washington doctoral student in the ...
Jan 21, 2025
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Energy & Green Tech
After years of public discourse related to its safety, costs and waste, nuclear power is making a comeback as a core energy solution. Across North America, nuclear power facilities are being started, rebooted and extended.
Jan 21, 2025
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Computer Sciences
Computer animators and video game designers may soon have a better way to create the purple-green sheen of a grackle's wing, or the pink flash on a hummingbird's throat, thanks to a new method for rendering iridescent feathers.
Jan 21, 2025
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Energy & Green Tech
An interdisciplinary team at POSTECH has developed a technology that addresses key limitations in clean hydrogen production using microwaves. They have also successfully elucidated the underlying mechanism of this innovative ...
Jan 21, 2025
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Engineering
Thousands of wind turbines will be added to the North Sea in the next decades. Environmental scientist Chen Li identified the most beneficial areas for their construction, focusing on material use, carbon footprint, and impact ...
Jan 21, 2025
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Engineering
Instead of relying on energy-hungry reactors to generate high temperatures and pressure, researchers are looking underground at Earth's natural heat and forces to cook up ammonia for fertilizer.
Jan 21, 2025
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Machine learning & AI
In hit 1980s British sitcom "Yes Minister", bureaucrat Humphrey Appleby did everything in his power to ensure that the wheels of the civil service turned slowly.
Jan 21, 2025
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Business
For tech billionaires Elon Musk and Mark Zuckerberg, the EU's digital rules are a tool of censorship. For the bloc, they are its most powerful weapon to stop the spread of illegal content.
Jan 21, 2025
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Automotive
Sales of electric cars slid last year in Europe in an otherwise stable market, data from carmakers showed Tuesday.
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