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A new paper explores how managing cognitive load distribution is vital for navigating complex technologies and enabling their effective use. https://techxplore.com/news/2025-10-advance-technology-cognitive-overload.html Consumer & Gadgets Tue, 21 Oct 2025 14:14:02 EDT news680274836 It was an interesting year for technology research as a team of human behaviorists at Aalto University, working with psychologist colleagues at the University of Helsinki Department of Psychology, found earlier this fall that a person's intelligence limits their computer proficiency more than previously thought—they came to this conclusion by testing volunteers on their perception, thinking and remembering skills and also their ability to do common computer related tasks. https://techxplore.com/news/2024-12-year-tech-xplore-articles.html Other Mon, 09 Dec 2024 07:30:01 EST news652704610 A new cross-disciplinary study by Washington University in St. Louis researchers has uncovered an unexpected psychological phenomenon at the intersection of human behavior and artificial intelligence: When told they were training AI to play a bargaining game, participants actively adjusted their own behavior to appear more fair and just, an impulse with potentially important implications for real-world AI developers. https://techxplore.com/news/2024-08-humans-behavior-ai.html Other Wed, 07 Aug 2024 15:52:30 EDT news642264746 Signals captured on underwater microphones could be key to locating airplanes such as MH370 when they crash into the ocean, Cardiff University research shows. https://techxplore.com/news/2024-05-underwater-generated-sea-airplane-key.html Engineering Mon, 20 May 2024 16:58:44 EDT news635443120 It was a good year for technology research and development, and nothing made the news more often than energy research efforts. Leading the way were efforts surrounding the use and development of solar energy. https://techxplore.com/news/2023-12-year-tech-xplore-articles.html Other Thu, 14 Dec 2023 07:30:02 EST news621694005 A team of researchers at Universidad Complutense de Madrid, has tested two of the most popular materials used to 3D print useful objects, including those used for art projects, to see how well they might stand the test of time. In their paper published in Journal of Cultural Heritage, the group describes subjecting 3D printed objects to heat and UV radiation. https://techxplore.com/news/2023-01-3d-materials-art.html Engineering Tue, 03 Jan 2023 10:15:59 EST news591963353 It was an interesting year for technology research, as a team at Stanford University found that the practice of charging cars in the evenings or at night will overstress the electric grid in the years to come. They suggested that policymakers institute programs to incentivize daytime charging at work or public service stations to prevent the costs of electricity from soaring in the future. https://techxplore.com/news/2022-12-year-tech-xplore-articles.html Other Thu, 15 Dec 2022 10:00:01 EST news590256122 Testing time perception in an unusually lifelike setting—a virtual reality ride on a New York City subway train—an interdisciplinary Cornell research team found that crowding makes time seem to pass more slowly. https://techxplore.com/news/2022-11-crowded.html Engineering Tue, 29 Nov 2022 15:01:14 EST news588956468 With autocorrect and auto-generated email responses, algorithms offer plenty of assistance to help people express themselves. https://techxplore.com/news/2022-09-algorithmic-advice.html Other Tue, 20 Sep 2022 10:35:32 EDT news582888927 When robots appear to engage with people and display human-like emotions, people may perceive them as capable of "thinking," or acting on their own beliefs and desires rather than their programs, according to research published by the American Psychological Association. https://techxplore.com/news/2022-07-human-like-robots-mental-states.html Robotics Thu, 07 Jul 2022 09:00:04 EDT news576399435 It was a good year for technology research of all kinds as a team of computer scientists at Rice University demonstrated a CPU algorithm that trains deep neural networks up to 15 times faster than the top GPU trainers. The AI software is also able to run on commodity processors. As part of their demonstration at this year's MLSys conference, they noted that their efforts can reduce the cost of training, which they described as the real bottleneck in such systems. https://techxplore.com/news/2021-12-year-tech-xplore-articles.html Other Thu, 16 Dec 2021 11:30:02 EST news558274520 The Artificial Intelligence industry should create a global community of hackers and "threat modelers" dedicated to stress-testing the harm potential of new AI products in order to earn the trust of governments and the public before it's too late. https://techxplore.com/news/2021-12-ethical-hackers-ai-looming-crisis.html Other Thu, 09 Dec 2021 14:00:02 EST news558259615 It started as a desire to spend less time on social media. https://techxplore.com/news/2021-11-social-media.html Other Thu, 18 Nov 2021 14:55:22 EST news556469713 A trio of researchers from Washington University in St. Louis and Vanderbilt University has found a low risk for people being tied to photographs on social media sites after having their genomes analyzed by certain institutions. In their paper published in the journal Science Advances, Rajagopal Venkatesaramani, Bradley Malin and Yevgeniy Vorobeychik describe the ways they tested the possibility of tying publicly available genomic data to publicly available photographs. https://techxplore.com/news/2021-11-genome-tied-photos-social-media.html Other Thu, 18 Nov 2021 10:10:06 EST news556452059 Ride-hailing services, like Uber and Lyft, are lauded by some for their ability to decrease traffic congestion. Yet, others claim that ride-hailing services increase traffic congestion. A recent study by researchers at Penn State and Boston University analyzed traffic data from across California and found that whether ride-hailing services increase or decrease traffic congestion depends on a variety of factors, including the day of the week and whether the region previously had high public-transportation use. https://techxplore.com/news/2021-09-ride-hailing-traffic-congestion.html Other Mon, 27 Sep 2021 08:57:07 EDT news551951824 A pair of health and ethics scientists, one with the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology, the other ETH Zurich, has published a Perspective piece in the journal Nature Machine Intelligence, discussing the ethics of researchers using hacked data in their research efforts. In their paper, Marcello Ienca and Effy Vayena discuss the ethical boundaries involved in using hacked data, compare it with past similar situations and conclude by suggesting six requirements that they believe researchers should use when considering the use of hacked data. https://techxplore.com/news/2021-09-issue-hacked-efforts.html Other Fri, 17 Sep 2021 09:58:11 EDT news551091481 The societal impacts of technological change can be seen in many domains, from messenger RNA vaccines and automation to drones and climate change. The pace of that technological change can affect its impact, and how quickly a technology improves in performance can be an indicator of its future importance. For decision-makers like investors, entrepreneurs, and policymakers, predicting which technologies are fast improving (and which are overhyped) can mean the difference between success and failure. https://techxplore.com/news/2021-08-comprehensive-technological.html Other Mon, 02 Aug 2021 16:48:30 EDT news547141705 Clickbait headlines might not be as enticing to readers as once thought, according to a team of researchers. They added that artificial intelligence—AI—may also come up short when it comes to correctly determining whether a headline is clickbait. https://techxplore.com/news/2021-06-automatic-ways-fake-news-complicated.html Other Tue, 22 Jun 2021 10:33:12 EDT news543576785 New research has shown robots can encourage humans to take greater risks in a simulated gambling scenario than they would if there was nothing to influence their behaviours. Increasing our understanding of whether robots can affect risk-taking could have clear ethical, practical and policy implications, which this study set out to explore. https://techxplore.com/news/2020-12-robots-risk-taking-behaviour-humans.html Robotics Fri, 11 Dec 2020 10:53:23 EST news526906396 As facial recognition technology comes into wider use worldwide, more attention has fallen on the imbalance in the technology's performance across races. https://techxplore.com/news/2020-12-outlines-racial-bias-facial-recognition.html Other Mon, 07 Dec 2020 11:11:23 EST news526561878 A team of researchers affiliated with a host of institutions in Korea and one in Estonia has found a way to use math to study paintings to learn more about the evolution of art history in the western world. In their paper published in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, the group describes how they scanned thousands of paintings and then used mathematical algorithms to find commonalities between them over time. https://techxplore.com/news/2020-10-math-evolution-art-history.html Other Wed, 14 Oct 2020 08:50:01 EDT news521883277 When people have the option to click "like" on a media article they encounter online, they spend less time actually reading the text, a new study suggests. https://techxplore.com/news/2020-09-article-online-spent.html Internet Wed, 30 Sep 2020 11:03:46 EDT news520682620 It has never been safer to fly on commercial airlines, according to a new study by an MIT professor that tracks the continued decrease in passenger fatalities around the globe. https://techxplore.com/news/2020-01-commercial-air-safer.html Other Fri, 24 Jan 2020 07:57:27 EST news499075043 It was a good year for technology development as a pair of engineers at Iowa State University solved a 50-year-old puzzle in signal processing—they came up with an algorithm to provide a generalization of the inverse fast Fourier transform—they called it the inverse chirp z-transform, and noted that it could be used with exponentially decaying or growing frequency components. https://techxplore.com/news/2019-12-year-techxplore-articles.html Other Mon, 16 Dec 2019 09:40:02 EST news495443566 While you may not think about how the buttons and icons on your computer screen were designed, there's a lot of thought behind it. Designers had to consider not only what would be aesthetically pleasing, but what would be functional, easily understood and capable of helping you use the technology. https://techxplore.com/news/2019-10-law-tech.html Other Tue, 22 Oct 2019 10:13:12 EDT news490957807 The ride-hailing era ushered in by Uber and Lyft once promised to complement public transit, reduce car ownership and alleviate congestion. https://techxplore.com/news/2019-05-ridesharing-companies-worsened-congestion-san.html Other Wed, 08 May 2019 15:17:31 EDT news476547442 Computers have become so smart during the past 20 years that people don't think twice about chatting with digital assistants like Alexa and Siri or seeing their friends automatically tagged in Facebook pictures. https://techxplore.com/news/2019-03-artificial-intelligence-tech-nobel-prize.html Other Wed, 27 Mar 2019 06:35:20 EDT news472887309 A team of researchers affiliated with several institutions in the U.K. has found that cascade effects are more to blame for poor performance by London's commuter train system than are mechanical failures. In their paper published in the journal Royal Society Open Science, the team describes their analysis of London's commuter train network and what they found. https://techxplore.com/news/2019-02-cascade-effects-mechanical-failures-responsible.html Other Mon, 11 Feb 2019 08:30:02 EST news469095313 It was a great year for technological innovation as a team at MIT announced that they had flown the first-ever plane with no moving parts. Instead of turbines, propellers or even fans, the new plane was powered by an "ionic wind"—a flow of ions produced by the plane that generated enough thrust to push the small prototype through the air long enough to produce sustained, steady flight. https://techxplore.com/news/2018-12-yearthe-tech-xplore-articles.html Other Mon, 24 Dec 2018 08:40:01 EST news464843808 Nostalgia and reflection rule as emotional tugs and pulls as any year draws to its close and in 2018 there is a lot being said about Doug Engelbart. https://techxplore.com/news/2018-12-engelbart-idea-knowledge-screen-mouse.html Other Tue, 11 Dec 2018 16:20:01 EST news463766405