Energy & Green Tech
Retrofitting every house in the UK to net zero standard by 2050 will require replacing all gas boilers, mostly with heat pumps. The target rate is 600,000 a year by 2028—but in 2022, fewer than 60,000 heat pumps were installed.
Aug 16, 2023
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Engineering
Indoor air pollution may have met its match. Today, scientists will report that they have designed catalyst-coated lampshades that transform indoor air pollutants into harmless compounds. The lampshades work with halogen ...
Aug 16, 2023
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Machine learning & AI
Knowledge mining is a widely active research area across disciplines such as natural language processing (NLP), data mining (DM), and machine learning (ML). The overall objective of extracting knowledge from data source is ...
Aug 14, 2023
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Computer Sciences
The model of democracy in the 1920s is sometimes called "the melting pot"—the dissolution of different cultures into an American soup. An update for the 2020s might be "open source," where cultural mixing, sharing and collaborating ...
Aug 11, 2023
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Consumer & Gadgets
The AI division of Mark Zuckerberg's Meta recently unveiled its Llama 2 chatbot. Microsoft has been appointed as Meta's preferred partner on Llama 2, which will be available through the Windows operating system.
Aug 10, 2023
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Automotive
The natural world works off algorithms, so researchers thought to use one of the world's most industrious animals, the honeybee, as a basis for determining energy-efficient routes in electric trackless rubber-tired vehicles ...
Aug 8, 2023
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Energy & Green Tech
Our climate is changing, and airlines are under pressure to reduce emissions from air travel. For many of us, especially in Australia, flying is an essential form of transport, so how can we reduce its environmental impact? ...
Aug 8, 2023
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Energy & Green Tech
Over the past few decades, sustainable energy solutions that rely on renewable sources, particularly the sun and wind, have become increasingly advanced and widespread. Many countries worldwide have committed to drastically ...
Internet
Do social media echo chambers deepen political polarization, or simply reflect existing social divisions?
Jul 27, 2023
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Energy & Green Tech
Better, more affordable energy storage is key to accelerating the transition away from fossil fuels toward renewable energy sources.
Jul 27, 2023
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