Pittsburgh-based autonomous truck company hits safety hangup with feds
After years of preparations, Aurora Innovation's big launch of autonomous trucks in Texas is facing an unlikely stumbling block: safety triangles.
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Tesla data helped police after Las Vegas truck explosion, but experts have wider privacy concerns
Your car is spying on you. That is one takeaway from the fast, detailed data that Tesla collected on the driver of one of its Cybertrucks that exploded in Las Vegas earlier this week. Privacy data experts say the deep dive ...
Jan 5, 2025
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UK, Germany electricity cleanest on record in 2024
Britain and Germany produced their cleanest electricity on record last year, with renewables reaching record highs, according to data released Thursday.
Jan 3, 2025
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Emerging field of 'energy meteorology' sheds light on solar farms' desert impact
Rooftop solar panels are popular in many parts of the world, but power is generated much more cheaply and efficiently in utility-scale solar farms. Often, though, these large-scale solar farms are deployed in desert habitats, ...
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Robotic gripper mimics human hand to move multiple objects together
A research team from Seoul National University has proposed a gripper capable of moving multiple objects together to enhance the efficiency of pick-and-place processes, inspired by humans' multi-object grasping strategy. ...
Jan 3, 2025
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Robots can now walk through muddy and slippery terrain, thanks to moose-like feet
Roboticists at the Tallinn University of Technology (TalTech) have developed a new class of bio-inspired feet that significantly enhance robot mobility on challenging terrains like mud and wet snow. The findings, published ...
Jan 3, 2025
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China's rare earth dominance: A strategic advantage with global implications
China's dominance in critical minerals is shaping the global green transition—but at what cost?
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Digital fingerprint: Cascading style sheets leaves users vulnerable to tracking
Processor type, IP address, browser in use, installed fonts—by collecting these and other characteristics of browser settings and the underlying operating system, it is possible to create a highly detailed and, in some ...
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Plastic crystals could replace greenhouse gases used in refrigerators
A team of chemical engineers at Deakin University, working with colleagues from the University of Western Australia, the University of Sydney and Monash University, all in Australia, has found that a type of plastic crystal ...
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Meta unveils HOT3D dataset for advanced computer vision training
While most humans can innately use their hands to communicate with others or grab and manipulate objects, many existing robotic systems only excel at simple manual tasks. In recent years, computer scientists worldwide have ...
