End of an era as Netflix faces stagnation challenges
Having lost subscribers for the first time in more than a decade, Netflix faces the new challenge of stagnation from a position of strength.
Apr 21, 2022
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Fighting fake 'facts' with two little words: A new technique to ground a large language model's answers in reality
Asking ChatGPT for answers comes with a risk—it may offer you entirely made-up "facts" that sound legitimate, as a New York lawyer recently discovered. Despite having been trained on vast amounts of factual data, large ...
Aug 1, 2023
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Black silicon UV responses exceed 130% efficiency
"For the first time ever, we have direct experimental evidence that an external quantum efficiency above 100% is possible in a single photodiode without any external antireflection," says Hele Savin, associate professor of ...
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Graveyard of the bikes: China's failed share-cycle scheme from above
Handlebars tight in snaking rows of colour, thousands of abandoned bicycles line an open field outside the city of Shenyang, relics of a shared bike mania that has overwhelmed China's cities.
Apr 21, 2021
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Moving toward the first flying humanoid robot
Researchers at the Italian Institute of Technology (IIT) have recently been exploring a fascinating idea, that of creating humanoid robots that can fly. To efficiently control the movements of flying robots, objects or vehicles, ...
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How to hide from a drone – the subtle art of 'ghosting' in the age of surveillance
Drones of all sizes are being used by environmental advocates to monitor deforestation, by conservationists to track poachers, and by journalists and activists to document large protests. As a political sociologist who studies ...
Jul 28, 2020
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World first as artificial neurons developed to cure chronic diseases
Artificial neurons on silicon chips that behave just like the real thing have been invented by scientists—a first-of-its-kind achievement with enormous scope for medical devices to cure chronic diseases, such as heart failure, ...
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All power to the proton: Researchers make battery breakthrough
Researchers from RMIT University in Melbourne, Australia have demonstrated for the first time a working rechargeable "proton battery" that could re-wire how we power our homes, vehicles and devices.
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A new water-splitting technique to generate clean hydrogen
Electrolytic hydrogen production entails the generation of hydrogen from water using electrical power, which should ideally come from renewable power sources such as sunlight and wind. Although this method of producing hydrogen ...
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A framework for AI-powered agile project management
Researchers at the University of Wollongong, Deakin University, Monash University and Kyushu University have developed a framework that could be used to build a smart, AI-powered agile project management assistant. Their ...
