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Identification of a major factor influencing the cycle life of high energy density lithium-air batteries
NIMS and SoftBank discovered that the cycle life of high energy density lithium-air batteries is predominantly influenced by the ratio of electrolyte volume to electrode areal capacity. The team developed a technique to quantify ...
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Energy & Green Tech
Solar technology with the beauty of butterfly wings
Photovoltaic and solar thermal systems are not always considered aesthetically enhancing to a building. The colored modules, however, being developed at the Fraunhofer Institute for Solar Energy Systems ISE are refreshingly ...
Jan 11, 2021
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Consumer & Gadgets
Looking Glass converts any photo into 3-D image
On the first day of a popular psychology course in the 1970s at City College of New York, students were told the story of how a remote South American tribe that was never exposed to technology or even electricity reacted ...
Jan 07, 2021 report
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Hi Tech & Innovation
New Mercedes screen to stretch nearly full width of car
Daimler's Mercedes-Benz has unveiled a key interior component of its upcoming electric luxury sedan: a large, curved screen that sweeps across almost the entire width of the car in the place of a conventional dashboard.
Jan 07, 2021
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Consumer & Gadgets
Apple proposes new wireless charging ecosystem
Apple is eyeing a better way to charge your devices.
Jan 06, 2021 report
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Energy & Green Tech
Novel public-private partnership facilitates development of fusion energy
The U.S. Department of Energy's (DOE) Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory (PPPL) is collaborating with private industry on cutting-edge fusion research aimed at achieving commercial fusion energy. This work, enabled through ...
Dec 30, 2020
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Electronics & Semiconductors
Researchers prepare tailored and wearable sensor via 3-D printed UV-curable sacrificial mold
Three-dimensional (3-D) printing techniques have the ability to fabricate wearable sensors with customized and complex designs compared with conventional processes. The vat photopolymerization 3-D printing technique exhibits ...
Dec 30, 2020
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Consumer & Gadgets
OnePlus 8T Concept phone has color-shifting, camera-camouflage features
As smartphone manufacturers race to reach faster transmission speeds, greater storage capacities and quicker charging times, it's a change of pace to find a new phone that ignores all of those pursuits.
Dec 22, 2020 report
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Internet
Digital concert formats to be examined following impact of pandemic
In the first study of its kind, the team, which includes researchers from Zeppelin University, the Max Planck Institute for Empirical Aesthetics in Frankfurt am Main, and the University of Bern in Switzerland, will look at ...
Dec 18, 2020
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Hardware
Fujifilm, IBM unveil 580-terabyte magnetic tape
When it comes to magnetic tape storage capacity, smaller is larger. That is, as the magnetic particles that store data become smaller, more data can be stockpiled in the same amount of space.
Dec 17, 2020 report
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Hi Tech & Innovation
'How Pac-Man Eats' explores how games work and how they can create meaning
Since the early days of pioneering games like Pong and Pac-Man, computer games have grown dramatically more complex and sophisticated, not only in the fundamental mechanics of how they work, but also in their ability express ...
Dec 16, 2020
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Temporal constraint background-aware correlation filter drives accurate visual tracking
Visual object tracking is one of the most challenging problems in multimedia processing with numerous applications, such as video retrieval, video editing, video surveillance, augmented reality, motion analysis, human-computer ...
Dec 15, 2020
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