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Machine learning & AI
Open-source platform provides a virtual playground for human-AI teaming
Artificial intelligence (AI) has already become an invisible but indispensable collaborator in our lives. It helps filter spam from your inbox, improves your Netflix recommendations, and, as an automotive copilot, suggests ...
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Energy & Green Tech
New material for sodium-ion batteries brings affordable, sustainable future within grasp
While lithium-ion batteries have been the go-to technology for everything from smartphones and laptops to electric cars, there are growing concerns about the future because lithium is relatively scarce, expensive and difficult ...
20 hours ago
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AI-driven gait analysis bridges health care and security fields
The analysis of a person's individual walking pattern, or gait, can reveal details about their identity and reflect differences between individuals, groups and even populations.
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Fake credentials offer novel solution to e-voting challenges
As we come to the end of a year in which half the world's population went to the polls, EPFL researchers developed and field-tested a groundbreaking new technology to protect remote electronic voting or e-voting from voter ...
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Thermal evaporation emerges as a promising strategy for scalable solid-state battery production
Solid-state lithium batteries are promising energy storage solutions that utilize solid electrolytes as opposed to the liquid or gel electrolytes found in traditional lithium-ion batteries (LiBs). Compared to LiBs and other ...
Computer Sciences
AI-powered algorithm enables personalized age transformation for human faces
Researchers at University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and University of Maryland recently developed MyTimeMachine (MyTM), a new AI-powered method for personalized age transformation that can make human faces in images ...
Dec 19, 2024
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Telecom
Charge your phone in your pocket with new wireless technology
A groundbreaking advancement in technology is paving the way for mobile phones and other electronic devices to recharge simply by being kept in a pocket. This innovative system enables wireless charging throughout three-dimensional ...
Dec 19, 2024
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Energy & Green Tech
Machine learning helps researchers develop perovskite solar cells with near-record efficiency
An international team of scientists has used machine learning to help them develop perovskite solar cells with near-record efficiency. In their paper published in the journal Science, the group describes how they used the ...
Energy & Green Tech
Discovery of trimodal energy storage material boosts renewable energy potential
Monash University researchers have made a breakthrough in energy storage technology that could significantly advance the global shift away from fossil fuels. The discovery, detailed in a study published Dec. 18 in Nature, ...
Dec 19, 2024
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Hi Tech & Innovation
AI system can envision an entire world from a single picture
Johns Hopkins computer scientists have created an artificial intelligence system capable of "imagining" its surroundings without having to physically explore them, bringing AI closer to humanlike reasoning.
Dec 19, 2024
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Machine learning & AI
AI agents mimic scientific collaboration to generate evidence-driven hypotheses
Crafting a unique and promising research hypothesis is a fundamental skill for any scientist. It can also be time consuming: New Ph.D. candidates might spend the first year of their program trying to decide exactly what to ...
Dec 19, 2024
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Security
Can we convince AI to answer harmful requests?
New research from EPFL demonstrates that even the most recent large language models (LLMs), despite undergoing safety training, remain vulnerable to simple input manipulations that can cause them to behave in unintended or ...
Dec 19, 2024
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Hi Tech & Innovation
Laser-based artificial neuron mimics nerve cell functions at lightning speed
Researchers have developed a laser-based artificial neuron that fully emulates the functions, dynamics and information processing of a biological graded neuron. With a signal processing speed of 10 GBaud—a billion times ...
Dec 19, 2024
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Engineering
New method enables mass production of flexible diamond membranes
A research team has developed a method for massively producing ultrathin and ultra-flexible diamond membranes.
Dec 19, 2024
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Robotics
Microrobots and the 'lazy agent problem': Swarm study demonstrates a solution
Imagine trying to move a heavy piece of furniture with a group of people. Everyone's effort matters, but how do you ensure that each person is pulling their weight? This challenge of fairly distributing the load is a critical ...
Dec 19, 2024
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Engineering
New research validates performance enhancement and injury risk reduction from back-assist exosuits
A new peer-reviewed study shows that a back-relieving exosuit originally developed at Vanderbilt University and then commercialized by spin-off company HeroWear can simultaneously increase lifting endurance and reduce injury ...
Dec 19, 2024
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Security
Study: New method of privacy enhancement for AI-powered medical data
Artificial intelligence has the potential to improve doctors' ability to diagnose and treat sleep apnea. But the technology is not widely adopted due to fears that it does not safeguard patient data.
Dec 19, 2024
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