Nvidia's face-making approach is genuinely GAN-tastic
A new kind of Generative Adversarial Network approach has technology observers scratching their heads: How can images be fake and yet look so real?
Computer Sciences
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Energy & Green Tech
Wind turbine swap in Denmark turns focus on superconductors
The EcoSwing consortium announced it has taken a special generator to a site in Denmark. This was momentous. A previously installed permanent magnet generator was now swapping places with a new superconducting device. The ...
Energy & Green Tech
New research looks beyond carbon efficiency to improve advanced biofuel strategy development
Conventional wisdom in biofuels research holds that carbon efficiency is the most important factor for determining promising strategies for the production of biofuels. For researchers, this means that the more carbon in the ...
Oct 15, 2018
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Mathematical verification tests if software runs as advertised
When it comes to security, what you don't know can hurt you.
Sep 28, 2018
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Wind and solar power could meet four-fifths of US electricity demand, study finds
The United States could reliably meet about 80 percent of its electricity demand with solar and wind power generation, according to scientists at the University of California, Irvine; the California Institute of Technology; ...
Feb 27, 2018
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Energy & Green Tech
Fossil fuels blown away by wind in cost terms: study
New onshore wind and solar energy projects are set to deliver electricity more cheaply than fossil fuels plants, with other green technologies also rapidly gaining a cost advantage over dirty fuels, a report published Saturday ...
Jan 13, 2018
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Energy & Green Tech
Air pollution cuts solar energy potential in China
China is rapidly expanding its solar power supply, hoping to meet 10 percent of the nation's electricity needs with solar energy by 2030. But there's a problem: severe air pollution is blocking light from the sun, significantly ...
Oct 23, 2017
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Energy & Green Tech
Nuclear generation in April at lowest monthly level since April 2014, says EIA
(Tech Xplore)—US Energy Information Administration (EIA) said that in March, and April, U.S. monthly electricity generation from utility-scale renewable sources exceeded nuclear generation for the first time since July ...
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Patent talk: Could an Apple device offer charge boost by winding?
(Tech Xplore)—Such a concept. Adding extra battery life to your Apple Watch simply by winding up the digital crown.
Security
Neural networks learn more about protecting communications: Just ask Alice, Bob and Eve
(Tech Xplore)—What will Google think of next? Actually, if you are looking at the goings on of the Google Brain team you are right to suspect they don't want to be thinking at all. They would rather put their AI resources ...
