Qualcomm 5G mmWave call breaks distance record
Qualcomm Technologies announced Monday that it conducted the first successful extended range 5G data call over mmWave.
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Internet
Researchers issue warning over Chrome extensions that access private data
Google Chrome browser extensions expose users to hackers who can easily tap into their private data, including social security numbers, passwords and banking information, according to researchers at the University of Wisconsin-Madison ...
Robotics
A robot that teaches itself to walk using reinforcement learning
A team of researchers at the University of California, Berkeley, has built a two-legged robot with t he ability to teach itself to walk using reinforcement learning. The team has written a paper describing their work and ...
Energy & Green Tech
Lithium-ion battery charged to 60% in 5.6 minutes with ordered anode
A team of researchers affiliated with multiple institutions in China has increased the speed of charging a lithium-ion battery by adding a copper coating and nanowires to its anode to improve ordering. Their study is published ...
Computer Sciences
A deep learning technique for context-aware emotion recognition
A team of researchers at Yonsei University and École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL) has recently developed a new technique that can recognize emotions by analyzing people's faces in images along with contextual ...
Energy & Green Tech
Model suggests a billion people could get safe drinking water from hypothetical harvesting device
A team of researchers from X–Alphabet's "moonshot factory," Google and the WHO/UNICEF Joint Monitoring Programme, Division of Data, Analytics, Planning and Monitoring, UNICEF, has developed a model that shows that a hypothetical ...
Electronics & Semiconductors
A new reconfigurable field-effect transistor and memory device based on a 2D heterostructure
Transistors are crucial components of most electronics on the market today, including computers, smartphones, wearables and numerous other devices. These components, generally based on semiconducting materials, are designed ...
Software
Google eyes Chrome on Windows laptop battery drain
Google Chrome on Microsoft Windows has been said to have a problem for some time but this week comes news that Google will give it the attention others think the problem quite deserves. Namely, Google is to pay attention ...
Consumer & Gadgets
Timeout declared for Walkie-Talkie on Apple Watch
Pre-iEra, the idea of a Dick Tracy hiding in the corners of a skyscraper, talking to his wrist captured imaginations of children and adults everywhere. Apple did not let us forget. Its Walkie-Talkie app launched last year ...
Robotics
Study explores the meaning of humanoid sex robots
In recent years, sex dolls have become increasing sophisticated and realistic in their resemblance to human beings, including mechanized components, and are thus now referred to as humanoid sex robots. Some media outlets ...
