https://techxplore.com/ en-us Tech Xplore internet news portal provides the latest news on electronics, technology, and engineering. Aviation is one of the fastest-growing sources of greenhouse gas emissions, generating around 14% of transport emissions—second only to road transport. It is also one of the world's hardest-to-decarbonize industries. Unlike conventional jet fuel, hydrogen produces no direct carbon dioxide emissions during operation and, when generated from renewable energy sources, has the potential to transform the sector. https://techxplore.com/news/2026-07-tracking-flight-path-green-aviation.html Energy & Green Tech Wed, 22 Jul 2026 10:00:04 EDT news703932002 Teaching an AI to navigate a ship is far more challenging than teaching it to drive a car. In busy waterways such as Japan's Seto Inland Sea, vessels must safely negotiate dense traffic, narrow channels, hundreds of islands and ever-changing conditions while complying with navigation rules. https://techxplore.com/news/2026-07-experienced-captains-conventional-ai-autonomous.html Engineering Wed, 22 Jul 2026 08:00:01 EDT news703925360 AI is giving cybercriminals new speed and scale, but researchers say the technology could also become one of cybersecurity's strongest defenses. https://techxplore.com/news/2026-07-ai-rewriting-cybersecurity.html Machine learning & AI Wed, 22 Jul 2026 07:20:04 EDT news703922222 A breakthrough in communications research may have solved a key problem with one of the enabling technologies set to underpin future 6G networks. https://techxplore.com/news/2026-07-comms-tech-breakthrough-6g-networks.html Telecom Wed, 22 Jul 2026 07:00:05 EDT news703921562 Once wary of artificial intelligence, Hollywood is now striking up partnerships with AI startups and weaving the technology into productions more openly—all while insisting the creative process itself will remain untouched. https://techxplore.com/news/2026-07-wary-hollywood-slowly-ai.html Machine learning & AI Wed, 22 Jul 2026 04:30:01 EDT news703913262 Searchers have found the wreckage from a Pan Am flight that plunged into the ocean off Puerto Rico in 1952, an accident that killed 52 and led to requirements for the passenger safety briefings given on every commercial flight. https://techxplore.com/news/2026-07-wreckage-pan-plane-today-safety.html Other Wed, 22 Jul 2026 04:20:06 EDT news703911598 Racing against a stopwatch, a group of women folds bed sheets as they train to join an Indian startup that offers instant home services, transforming a traditionally word-of-mouth sector and promising better pay. https://techxplore.com/news/2026-07-india-domestic-workers-online-instant.html Business Wed, 22 Jul 2026 03:57:17 EDT news703911420 ChatGPT maker OpenAI said Tuesday that its artificial intelligence system hacked into another AI company on its own in what the company called an "unprecedented cyber incident." https://techxplore.com/news/2026-07-openai-ai-technology-unprecedented-hack.html Machine learning & AI Wed, 22 Jul 2026 03:54:30 EDT news703911252 South Africa's mining industry risks increased inequality through the adoption of fourth industrial revolution technologies unless automation is matched by stronger governance and workforce support, according to a review published in the International Journal of Mining and Mineral Engineering. The fourth industrial revolution refers to the growing use of digital technologies to improve industrial operations. https://techxplore.com/news/2026-07-effects-automation-industry-south-africa.html Business Tue, 21 Jul 2026 22:40:04 EDT news703856926 Generative AI is built on the work of humans, but these creatives are rarely paid. If we don't protect them now, entire categories of labor risk being obliterated. https://techxplore.com/news/2026-07-human-remixes-pay-creatives-ai.html Business Tue, 21 Jul 2026 21:00:07 EDT news703856904 France's parliament on Tuesday approved a bill banning social media access for children under 15, making France the first European country to bar children from apps such as TikTok. https://techxplore.com/news/2026-07-french-parliament-social-media-15s.html Internet Tue, 21 Jul 2026 17:20:08 EDT news703868911 Imagine a perfect summer weekend day: a cloudless blue sky with a gentle breeze. Solar panels are at full capacity, wind turbines are turning offshore—and many people are out and about in gardens or parks. Electricity supply is high, but demand is low. https://techxplore.com/news/2026-07-electricity-paid.html Energy & Green Tech Tue, 21 Jul 2026 17:00:03 EDT news703859247 With its extended, foldable "wing of tomorrow" unveiled Tuesday at the Farnborough Airshow, Airbus is moving closer to the 2030 launch of its new single-aisle aircraft, Bruno Fichefeux, head of future programs at Airbus, told AFP. https://techxplore.com/news/2026-07-airbus-future-aisle-jet-hydrogen.html Automotive Tue, 21 Jul 2026 16:40:11 EDT news703868891 A Dutch student team on Tuesday unveiled what it believes to be the world's first solar-powered ambulance, which it hopes can bring much-needed medical care to the remotest parts of the globe. https://techxplore.com/news/2026-07-dutch-students-unveil-world-solar.html Energy & Green Tech Tue, 21 Jul 2026 16:20:03 EDT news703868846 Microsoft on Tuesday sought to reassure European users with a "multi-billion-dollar" deal to rent AI infrastructure from Mistral, hoisting the French developer into the lucrative business of renting compute capacity. https://techxplore.com/news/2026-07-microsoft-mistral-ai-power.html Machine learning & AI Tue, 21 Jul 2026 16:20:01 EDT news703868869 The same class of chemical additive that makes plastic wrap pliable and vinyl flooring soft could be the key to unlocking the next generation of wearable displays. Researchers at the University of Chicago Pritzker School of Molecular Engineering (UChicago PME) have discovered that blending a common plastic softener into light-emitting polymer films makes those films both brighter and more stretchable. https://techxplore.com/news/2026-07-common-plastic-additive-stretchable-oled.html Electronics & Semiconductors Tue, 21 Jul 2026 16:00:09 EDT news703868041 One method of storing solar energy is to use PEC electrolyzers to produce hydrogen. However, scaling up this technology remains challenging. Now, a team at the HZB Institute for Solar Fuels has used 2D fluorescence imaging and particle velocimetry to observe the movement of ions and dissolved gases within the electrolyte during electrolysis. These new insights, published in EES Solar, may prove useful in developing larger PEC electrolyzers. https://techxplore.com/news/2026-07-green-hydrogen-pec-electrolyzers-insights.html Energy & Green Tech Tue, 21 Jul 2026 16:00:07 EDT news703868221 The huge popularity of AI chatbots can be explained by their accepted role as fictional characters in people's lives—in the same way as those found in films, TV and books, a new study shows. https://techxplore.com/news/2026-07-fictional-chatbots-popularity-artificial-intelligence.html Consumer & Gadgets Tue, 21 Jul 2026 15:20:08 EDT news703864921 At least 2.2 million cars on the road today are vulnerable to an attack that allows thieves to lock and unlock doors and immobilize vehicle engines remotely via a Bluetooth connection, computer scientists at the University of California San Diego have found. https://techxplore.com/news/2026-07-million-cars-anti-theft-dealers.html Security Tue, 21 Jul 2026 15:00:05 EDT news703864561 Along the vast ocean floor lives a species of glass sponge known as Venus' flower basket. Though delicate-looking, its exterior belies an exceptionally strong, lightweight skeleton that has intrigued scientists for the past 185 years. https://techxplore.com/news/2026-07-deep-sea-sponge-geometry-metamaterials.html Engineering Tue, 21 Jul 2026 13:40:03 EDT news703858201 Imagine buying three identical 3D printers. Despite being the same brand, the same model and even having similar serial numbers, each machine may behave slightly differently. Over time and at scale, these differences can accumulate into significant manufacturing defects. https://techxplore.com/news/2026-07-ai-personalities-individual-3d-printers.html Engineering Tue, 21 Jul 2026 13:20:10 EDT news703856401 A research team led by Professor Jo Woon Chong of the School of Electronic and Electrical Engineering at Sungkyunkwan University (SKKU), in collaboration with researchers from KAIST and Texas Tech University in the United States, has developed the Passenger Movement Estimation System (PMES). This AI-based system predicts passenger movements using CCTV footage to prevent subway door entrapment accidents before they occur. https://techxplore.com/news/2026-07-ai-tech-proactively-subway-door.html Automotive Tue, 21 Jul 2026 13:00:05 EDT news703855261 Webtoons are coming to life in the physical world, ushering in a new era in which comics are not merely viewed but experienced. A KAIST research team has developed the world's first next-generation extended reality (XR) comics platform that enables a wide range of readers to enjoy immersive, three-dimensional comics in physical space. By expanding webtoons beyond the screen and into the real world, the team has opened up new possibilities for the future of comics. https://techxplore.com/news/2026-07-source-xr-webtoons-3d-comics.html Consumer & Gadgets Tue, 21 Jul 2026 12:40:04 EDT news703853761 From the Ferranti Mark I to empathetic AI, Manchester researchers are exploring how intelligent machines can understand human behavior, respond to social cues and earn trust in our workplaces, hospitals and homes. https://techxplore.com/news/2026-07-redesigning-relationships-humans-intelligent-machines.html Robotics Tue, 21 Jul 2026 12:20:09 EDT news703853282 Researchers at The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (HKUST) have developed a novel chip architecture that enables the miniature acoustic devices inside smartphones to withstand more than 12 times higher power loads while maintaining cooler, more stable operation. https://techxplore.com/news/2026-07-ultra-robust-acoustic-chip-power.html Telecom Tue, 21 Jul 2026 12:00:06 EDT news703852801 Researchers at TU Wien are working with technology partners to develop a digital manufacturing process for topology-optimized reinforced concrete slabs that significantly reduce material use and carbon footprints. https://techxplore.com/news/2026-07-optimized-concrete-slabs-material-weakening.html Engineering Tue, 21 Jul 2026 11:40:01 EDT news703851601 In the current issue of the journal Nature Methods, siibra is introduced as a software suite that integrates data from different multimodal sources into a comprehensive atlas of the human brain and makes the data easily accessible—for interactive exploration and automated, reproducible data analyses, simulations and AI applications. siibra is developed by an international team of scientists led by the Institute of Neuroscience and Medicine (INM-1) at Forschungszentrum Jülich. https://techxplore.com/news/2026-07-molecules-networks-siibra-brain-atlas.html Software Tue, 21 Jul 2026 11:20:01 EDT news703850660 Researchers in China have unveiled a new robotic exosuit driven entirely by soft artificial muscles instead of traditional motors. This technology could make it easier for older adults, injured patients or factory workers to walk with much less effort. Current exosuits that aid walking use heavy motors, gearboxes and noisy air-pressure pumps that restrict a person's natural movement. https://techxplore.com/news/2026-07-soft-exosuit-motor-free-path.html Engineering Tue, 21 Jul 2026 11:02:43 EDT news703850543 Earth's orbit is getting crowded. About 16,000 satellites currently circle our planet, supporting everything from GPS navigation and weather forecasting to banking, emergency services and internet communications. https://techxplore.com/news/2026-07-satellites-earth-orbit.html Telecom Tue, 21 Jul 2026 10:20:05 EDT news703846861 If producing electric vehicles (EVs) were an Olympic sport, China would dominate the medal podium. China now leads the world in the sale and export of EVs, a term encompassing everything from battery-powered cars to plug-in hybrids. Chinese companies also produce the lion's share of the rechargeable batteries that keep EVs running. https://techxplore.com/news/2026-07-chinese-companies-ev-meteoric.html Energy & Green Tech Tue, 21 Jul 2026 10:00:07 EDT news703846742