Engineering
As China cements its status as the world's largest energy consumer, it has set ambitious targets for achieving carbon neutrality, pledging to peak carbon emissions by 2030 and attain carbon neutrality by 2060. The building ...
May 27, 2024
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Researchers at Oak Ridge National Laboratory used additive manufacturing to produce the first defect-free complex tungsten parts for use in extreme environments. The accomplishment could have positive implications for clean-energy ...
May 27, 2024
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Machine learning & AI
OpenAI was forced to apologize to actor Scarlett Johansson last week for using her voice –- or something very similar –- on its latest chatbot, throwing the spotlight on to voice-cloning tech.
May 27, 2024
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Business
For more than 50 years, Scott Snyder's family has grazed cattle on a 600-acre parcel of leased land on Wright's Mesa, a 7,000-foot plateau ringed by southwestern Colorado's San Juan Mountains.
May 27, 2024
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Business
Bay Area air quality officials have launched an investigation into Tesla, charging the electric automaker with letting massive amounts of harmful toxins escape into the air from its Fremont car factory. In a double blow, ...
May 27, 2024
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Business
As President Joe Biden pushes to accelerate the nation's transition to clean energy, three Chicago suburbs and more than two dozen other Illinois communities are mulling plans to double down on lung-damaging, climate-changing ...
May 27, 2024
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Consumer & Gadgets
Google has rolled out its latest experimental search feature on Chrome, Firefox and the Google app browser to hundreds of millions of users. "AI Overviews" saves you clicking on links by using generative AI—the same technology ...
May 27, 2024
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Security
The Philadelphia Inquirer recently investigated Philadelphia's use of what it described as a "little-scrutinized, 7,000-camera system that is exposing residents across the city to heightened surveillance with few rules or ...
May 27, 2024
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Engineering
Reducing carbon emissions from small-scale combustion systems, such as boilers and other industrial equipment, is a key step towards building a more sustainable, carbon-neutral future. Boilers are widely used across various ...
May 27, 2024
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Computer Sciences
A team of computer scientists at Purdue University has found that the popular LLM, ChatGPT, is wildly inaccurate when responding to computer programming questions. In their paper published as part of the Proceedings of the ...
