Chrome tweak stems battery drain
Google's Chromium browser team has come up with a simple fix to address heavy battery drain.
Software
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Engineering
Plastic waste yields jet fuel through new process costing as little as $1 per kilogram
Aviation is one of the sectors that contributes most to greenhouse gas emissions and climate change on Earth. One proposed strategy for mitigating or counterbalancing the effects of these emissions is to substitute existing ...
Business
Anticipation grows over Nokia news at upcoming LA event
Now sending Nokia what's-next watchers into a collective buzz: A story that Nokia is set to introduce a virtual reality product next week. Ina Fried in Re/code said the information came from sources "familiar with the company's ...
Hardware
An architecture for sub-picowatt logic computing based on self-biased molybdenum disulfide transistors
The continuous improvement of circuits and electronic components is vital for the development of new technologies with enhanced capabilities and unique characteristics. In recent years, most electronics engineers have been ...
Consumer & Gadgets
A novel elderly care robot could soon provide personal assistance, enhancing seniors' quality of life
Worldwide, humans are living longer than ever before. According to data from the United Nations, approximately 13.5% of the world's people were at least 60 years old in 2020, and by some estimates, that figure could increase ...
Robotics
A soft magnetic pixel robot that can be programmed to take different shapes
Magnetic soft robots are systems that can change shape or perform different actions when a magnetic field is applied to them. These robots have numerous advantageous characteristics, including a wireless drive, high flexibility ...
Consumer & Gadgets
FlexEnable shows vision in wrist-hugging display at MWC
Please. Could you ever really expect to walk away from Mobile World Congress without hearing vendor words such as "bendy" "curve" and "flex"?
Robotics
Burger robots to appear at 50 locations
(Tech Xplore)—We have been treated to a generous amount of stories announcing new advances in assembly-line robots and home-assistant robots. Smartened up with cameras and artificial intelligence, it looks like time to focus ...
Computer Sciences
When AI is made by AI, results are impressive
(Tech Xplore)—Researchers exploring AI systems are making news and familiarizing the public with terms like reinforcement learning and machine learning. Recent headlines are still making some heads turn in surprise. AI software ...
Security
The risks of attacks that involve poisoning training data for machine learning models
A growing number of studies suggest that machine learning algorithms can leak a considerable amount of information included in the data used to train them through their model parameters and predictions. As a result, malicious ...
