First SMS auctions for 107,000 euros as NFT
The first SMS ever sent over a mobile phone in 1992 was sold Tuesday as an NFT at auction for 107,000 euros ($120,600), the Aguttes auction house said.
Dec 21, 2021
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Electronics & Semiconductors
A new platform for controlled design of printed electronics with 2D materials
A study, published today in Nature Electronics, led by Imperial College London and Politecnico di Torino researchers reveals the physical mechanisms responsible for the transport of electricity in printed two-dimensional ...
Dec 21, 2021
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Robotics
Flexible tentaclelike robotic manipulators inspired by nature
Traditional robots can have difficulty grasping and manipulating soft objects if their manipulators are not flexible in the way elephant trunks, octopus tentacles, or human fingers can be.
Dec 21, 2021
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Business
Less than a quarter of firms report that introducing AI has led to a loss of jobs
Less than a quarter of firms introducing AI technology over the past five years believe it has led to a net loss of jobs, a new survey led by academics at the University of Warwick and the University of Sussex Business School ...
Dec 21, 2021
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Machine learning & AI
Disaster relief could benefit from neural net combining multiple remote data sources
In an example of the burgeoning field of 'data fusion', researchers have developed a neural net technique that bridges optical imaging and synthetic-aperture radar into a single comprehensive data source. The approach combines ...
Dec 21, 2021
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Computer Sciences
IT security: Computer attacks with laser light
Computer systems that are physically isolated from the outside world (air-gapped) can still be attacked. This is demonstrated by IT security experts of the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT) in the LaserShark project. ...
Dec 21, 2021
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Consumer & Gadgets
Walking in a 360° video with foot vibrations for seated observers
Walking is a basic human activity that improves human physical and mental health. However, physical disabilities and the COVID-19 pandemic have discouraged people from walking outside. To remove these limitations, a research ...
Dec 21, 2021
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Robotics
Moving toward the first flying humanoid robot
Researchers at the Italian Institute of Technology (IIT) have recently been exploring a fascinating idea, that of creating humanoid robots that can fly. To efficiently control the movements of flying robots, objects or vehicles, ...
Internet
'Mission impossible?': Tracking political misinformation and disinformation on TikTok
TikTok is one of the top five social media platforms in the world this year.
Dec 21, 2021
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Computer Sciences
Model moves computers closer to understanding human conversation
An engineer from the Johns Hopkins Center for Language and Speech Processing has developed a machine learning model that can distinguish functions of speech in transcripts of dialogs outputted by language understanding, or ...
Dec 21, 2021
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