Business
Amin Nasser, chief executive of the world's largest oil company Saudi Aramco, recently called on nations to "abandon the fantasy" to phase out fossil fuels, adding that the transition to renewable energy sources is "visibly ...
Apr 10, 2024
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Internet
OpenAI on Friday revealed a voice-cloning tool it plans to keep tightly controlled until safeguards are in place to thwart audio fakes meant to dupe listeners.
Mar 30, 2024
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Energy & Green Tech
The sustainably powered, electrochemical reduction of carbon dioxide (CO2) into useful chemicals and feedstock could help to mitigate greenhouse gas emissions, allowing industries to reuse released CO2 in beneficial ways. ...
Energy & Green Tech
South Africa experienced unprecedented electricity shortages in 2023 as aging coal plants became increasingly prone to breakdowns. The country urgently needs to develop new electricity generation facilities and reduce reliance ...
Jan 9, 2024
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Energy & Green Tech
Minerals as well as freshwater can be obtained by desalinating seawater with solar power facilities for the sustainable development of human civilization. For instance, hydrogels have shown great power for solar-powered water ...
Security
Adversaries can deliberately confuse or even "poison" artificial intelligence (AI) systems to make them malfunction—and there's no foolproof defense that their developers can employ. Computer scientists from the National ...
Jan 4, 2024
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Engineering
This study was led by Prof. Ping Zhang, Dr. Yiming Liu, Yile Song, and Jiaxiang Zhang (State Key Laboratory of Networking and Switching Technology, Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications).
Dec 29, 2023
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Energy & Green Tech
South Africa's experience in piloting a new type of climate finance vehicle can inform debates about how to fund a just transition from fossil fuels to renewable energy.
Dec 6, 2023
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Business
The Green Climate Fund (GCF) is the world's largest dedicated multilateral climate fund, and aims to support climate mitigation and adaptation efforts in developing countries. Mobilizing financial resources from the private ...
Nov 27, 2023
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Computer Sciences
In an era of heightened concern in academia regarding AI-generated essays, there is reassuring news from the University of Kansas.
