Energy & Green Tech
Xanthan gum, derived from plants like cabbage and known for its carbohydrate content, serves as a natural protective barrier in cosmetics to retain their benefits on the skin. In a recent development, this remarkable substance ...
Nov 15, 2023
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Machine learning & AI
AI is transforming the fashion world but the fast growing technology will never be a replacement for designers' "original creativity", according to the head of a pioneering project.
Sep 17, 2023
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Machine learning & AI
Pictures, preferences, names, dates… Have you ever wondered why Big Tech and artificial intelligence (AI) companies collect so much personal information about you? A new paper out this week reveals a big reason why: self-relevance ...
Aug 18, 2023
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Energy & Green Tech
Wind and sun may be nearly infinite resources. But the materials needed to build wind turbines and solar panels are not always common. Take the rare earth metals—neodymium, dysprosium, and praseodymium—for example. Chances ...
Aug 16, 2023
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Energy & Green Tech
The idea of space-based solar power (SBSP)—using satellites to collect energy from the sun and "beam" it to collection points on Earth—has been around since at least the late 1960s. Despite its huge potential, the concept ...
Aug 15, 2023
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Business
If you ask Alexa, Amazon's voice assistant AI system, whether Amazon is a monopoly, it responds by saying it doesn't know. It doesn't take much to make it lambaste the other tech giants, but it's silent about its own corporate ...
Jul 20, 2023
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Computer Sciences
Computer scientists at the University of Massachusetts Amherst recently found that data-visualization experts have no agreed-upon understanding of who makes up one of their largest audiences—novice users. The work, which ...
Jul 5, 2023
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Engineering
When we perceive the world around us, parts of it come into and out of focus. While this visual cue is a natural one for humans, it can be hard for technology to imitate, especially in 3D displays. Researchers at Carnegie ...
Jun 22, 2023
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Engineering
An international team of researchers revisited the fundamentals of Negative Poisson's ratio structure (NPRS) and investigated its creation using laminated carbon fiber reinforced plastics, a strong and lightweight material. ...
Jun 22, 2023
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Energy & Green Tech
The world has enough rare earth minerals and other critical raw materials to switch from fossil fuels to renewable energy to produce electricity and limit global warming, according to a new study that counters concerns about ...
Jan 27, 2023
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