Machine learning & AI
In the "Star Trek: The Next Generation" episode "The Measure of a Man," Data, an android crew member of the Enterprise, is to be dismantled for research purposes unless Captain Picard can argue that Data deserves the same ...
Oct 27, 2020
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Engineering
Lithium metal shows great promise as an anode material for next-generation high-energy-density batteries. However, the issues of dendrite growth and huge volume fluctuations that occur with lithium plating and stripping can ...
Jan 17, 2023
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Automotive
Researchers from the Universidad Carlos III de Madrid (UC3M) have developed a sensor and a method for detecting road conditions while a vehicle is moving.
May 24, 2022
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Energy & Green Tech
With the looming threat of climate change, it is high time we embrace renewable energy sources on a larger scale. Photovoltaic systems, which generate electricity from the nearly limitless supply of sunlight energy, are one ...
Jul 20, 2021
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Energy & Green Tech
Researchers from the South China University of Technology report on a potential strategy for long-life Li-S batteries via the rational design and low-cost fabrication of multifunctional separators. Due to effective trapping ...
Dec 19, 2022
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Electronics & Semiconductors
A research group has announced a new iPMA-type Hexa-technology in Magnetic Tunnel Junctions (MTJ) that unlocks the door to improving ultra-low power in IoT edge-devices, mobile, automotive, consumer electronics, and applications ...
Dec 7, 2022
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Robotics
The air taxi market is almost ready for take off, with companies such as Boeing, Hyundai, Airbus and Toyota building fleets to have commuters flitting through the sky. Europe and the U.S. have both drafted new rules to pave ...
Jun 20, 2023
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Business
Facebook on Friday said its Silicon Valley offices will begin reopening to workers in May after a yearlong pandemic shutdown, but without perks such as free food and commuter shuttles.
Mar 26, 2021
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Business
The implosion that took the lives of five souls who made the perilous deep sea voyage to the Titanic shipwreck is not your typical disaster. But perhaps the OceanGate Titan submersible craft was doomed from the start.
Jul 7, 2023
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Consumer & Gadgets
Heatwaves in numerous countries during 2022 sent all-time temperature records tumbling. On the day before the UK endured a shaded air temperature of 40°C for the first time ever, the Met Office issued its first ever red ...
Nov 3, 2022
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