Google to spend $2.1 billion on Manhattan campus acquisition
Google is planning to buy New York City's St. John's Terminal for $2.1 billion, making it the anchor of its Hudson Square campus.
Sep 21, 2021
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Energy & Green Tech
AI-based method speeds discovery of materials that harvest electricity from wasted heat
In any form of energy conversion—even with something as green as solar panels—extra heat is generated. But with up to 72 percent of it left unused, there's also great potential to harvest electricity from that waste.
Sep 21, 2021
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Energy & Green Tech
A new look at the problem of energy efficiency in lithium-ion batteries
An international research team featuring two Skoltech scientists has experimentally demonstrated that a long-standing explanation for low energy efficiency in lithium-ion batteries does not hold. The researchers explained ...
Sep 21, 2021
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Engineering
New upgrades to old wireless tech could enable real-time 3D motion capture
A wireless technology that is helping people find their keys and wallets could one day be used for precise and real-time 3D motion capture, thanks to upgrades developed by electrical engineers at the University of California ...
Sep 21, 2021
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Internet
Giving families better access to the digital assets of deceased loved ones
A new report highlights the extent of the distress caused by being cut off from digital assets when family members die or become incapacitated.
Sep 21, 2021
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Computer Sciences
Scientists show how fast algorithms are improving across a broad range of examples
Algorithms are sort of like a parent to a computer. They tell the computer how to make sense of information so they can, in turn, make something useful out of it.
Sep 21, 2021
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Energy & Green Tech
Negative CO2 emissions are possible with new Aussie technology
Southern Green Gas Ltd (SGG) and Swiss Re, one of the world's leading providers of reinsurance, insurance and other forms of risk-based transfer, have agreed to collaborate on Carbon Removals initiatives in Australia involving ...
Sep 21, 2021
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Machine learning & AI
Artificial intelligence can help highway departments find bats roosting under bridges
Photographs and computer vision techniques using artificial intelligence are able to detect the presence of bats on bridges automatically with over 90% accuracy, according to our new study.
Sep 21, 2021
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Robotics
A robot vision system that diminishes occlusions using mirror reflections
To navigate their surroundings safely and most effectively, robots should be supported by a highly performing computer vision system. One of the greatest challenges when developing computer vision systems for robots is to ...
Electronics & Semiconductors
New catalyst improves waste water conversion to clean energy
A new generation of high performance catalysts developed by a team led by University of Adelaide scientists will improve the efficiency of using urea loaded waste water to generate clean energy.
Sep 21, 2021
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