Energy & Green Tech
Can pure water store electrical energy? A research team led by Dr. Vasily Artemov within the Cluster of Excellence "BlueMat—Water-Driven Materials" at Hamburg University of Technology has now shown that it can. By confining ...
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Energy & Green Tech
The critical minerals that power lithium-ion batteries are in high demand and short supply, especially for the U.S., which must rely on importing resources such as nickel and cobalt to manufacture the technology.
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Engineering
Although self-driving cars and sophisticated robots use advanced cameras, computer algorithms and artificial intelligence to perceive their surroundings, these artificial eyes struggle to remain reliable in mixed lighting ...
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Hardware
Every day, billions of people trust computer chips to protect their most sensitive information, ranging from banking passwords to national security secrets. But what if those chips were secretly compromised before they even ...
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Hardware
Randomness forms a crucial backbone of modern society, where every encryption key, secure transaction and digital signature depends on random numbers that no adversary can predict. But every random number generator ever deployed, ...
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Robotics
Cornell researchers are investigating the potential for using artificial intelligence to give robots social intelligence—the ability to read facial cues, anticipate the needs of those around them, and function within society. ...
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Robotics
Humanoid robots struggling with tasks like grasping a cup have a new teacher—a person wearing an ultrasound wristband that captures the movement of muscles, tendons and ligaments beneath the skin.
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Machine learning & AI
The German government has announced it is setting up an institute for artificial intelligence safety designed to analyze the performance and risks of AI models.
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Machine learning & AI
OpenAI, maker of ChatGPT, on Monday took the first step toward going public, one week after rival Anthropic announced its own filing, as both companies look to raise the massive sums needed to expand.
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Business
In a recently published article in the Harvard Business Review, UConn management professor Timothy B. Folta and two European colleagues discovered that in hypercompetitive business markets, a less-resourced but more spirited ...
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