Energy & Green Tech
For over a decade, policy and industry have tried to make electric vehicles more widely available and get people to buy them. Previous research on how to do this has largely focused on examining early adopters of plug-in ...
Oct 7, 2021
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Business
Mountain View, California, residents will soon be able to order food, medicine and other small parcels to their homes via drone.
Jun 27, 2024
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Computer Sciences
Make a template based on a 1980s virtual reality game, create 25 AI characters, give them personalities and histories, equip them with memory, and throw in some ChatGPT—and what do you get?
Machine learning & AI
New technology could help reduce malnutrition and improve overall health in long-term care homes by automatically recording and tracking how much food residents consume.
Jan 31, 2022
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Energy & Green Tech
Cooling water levels have fallen in two reactors at the wrecked Fukushima nuclear plant since a powerful earthquake hit the area last weekend, indicating possible additional damage, its operator said Friday.
Feb 19, 2021
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Engineering
The soft whirring sound of low-frequency vibrations cannot be easily detected because it is not loud. But once detected, it can be hard to ignore. Often, residents complain of the annoyance caused by low-frequency vibrations ...
Sep 22, 2022
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Hi Tech & Innovation
Trust, safety and security are the most important factors affecting passengers' attitudes towards self-driving cars. Younger people felt their personal security to be significantly better than older people.
May 6, 2021
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Internet
Several years ago, the government of Aotearoa New Zealand undertook an initiative to provide Internet access throughout the country. To observe the status of broadband adoption and usage in the rural areas, a group of final ...
Dec 22, 2022
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Consumer & Gadgets
Amazon Go is moving to the suburbs.
Jan 25, 2022
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Energy & Green Tech
If you have lived in a home with a trampoline in the backyard, you may have observed the unreasonably tall grass growing under it. This is because many crops, including these grasses, actually grow better when protected from ...
Apr 27, 2023
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