Amazon offers cashierless tech to rival retailers
Amazon on Monday began offering its "just walk out" technology to other retailers in a move aimed at boosting the use of the cashierless store system.
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'Tequila' powered biofuels more efficient than corn or sugar
The agave plant used to make tequila could be established in semi-arid Australia as an environmentally friendly solution to Australia's transport fuel shortage, a team of researchers at the University of Sydney, University ...
Mar 31, 2020
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New chip design makes parallel programs run many times faster and requires one-tenth the code
Computer chips have stopped getting faster. For the past 10 years, chips' performance improvements have come from the addition of processing units known as cores.
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Urea tanks on diesel trucks—that's the law in the United States starting in 2010
Urea tanks will be standard equipment for most new diesel trucks, buses, cars, and sport utility vehicles (SUVs) manufactured in the United States after Jan. 1, 2010. An automotive grade of urea will be injected into the ...
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A font that helps you remember what you read—Sans Forgetica
A team of researchers at Australia's Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology has come up with a new type font called Sans Forgetica. Its purpose is to help readers remember what has been written using it. The team behind ...
Electronics & Semiconductors
AI unveils strange chip designs, while discovering new functionalities
Specialized microchips that manage signals at the cutting edge of wireless technology are astounding works of miniaturization and engineering. They're also difficult and expensive to design.
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Electric roads would pave the way for smaller car batteries, shows modeling study
If an electric car charges while driving, the size of the battery can be reduced by up to 70 percent, and the load on the power grid can be spread out over the day. Charging on the move suits most people, but not everyone. ...
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Using an ethylene carbonate solvent with a sodium iodide salt to create a new kind of refrigerator
A pair of researchers at Lawrence Berkely National Laboratory used a commonly known, naturally occurring phenomenon to build a new kind of environmentally safe refrigerator.
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Engineers create molten salt micro-nuclear reactor to produce nuclear energy more safely
A nuclear power plant produces 8000 times more power than fossil fuels and is environmentally friendly, but when accidents do occur, they have major repercussions, such as the 1986 Chernobyl disaster. Nearly 100 people died ...
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A completely new plasmonic chip for ultrafast data transmission using light
Researchers from ETH Zurich have achieved what scientists have been attempting to do for some 20 years: in their laboratory work as part of European Horizon 2020 research projects, they have manufactured a chip on which fast ...
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