Business
The future of artificial intelligence, technology to fight climate change and other glimpses at the cutting edge were in focus Tuesday as mega-tech conference Web Summit opened in Rio de Janeiro.
Apr 16, 2024
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Business
As climate change intensifies, the transportation sector is under significant pressure to minimize its carbon footprint. Pivotal in this transformation are new energy vehicles, including battery electric, plug-in hybrid, ...
May 28, 2024
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Energy & Green Tech
Many of my colleagues have long maintained that the best solution to climate change is nuclear power. Free of greenhouse gasses, nuclear is a powerful, scalable energy technology. We know how to build these plants, and most ...
Mar 14, 2022
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Engineering
Adhesive tape or sticky notes are easy to attach to a surface, but are difficult to remove. This phenomenon, known as adhesion hysteresis, can be fundamentally observed in soft, elastic materials: Adhesive contact is formed ...
Mar 8, 2024
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Business
Technological changes in industry have given rise to contending schools of thought about their impact on work and workers. Automation is rapidly deepening and widening, reaching new areas of work. What's being produced is ...
Aug 15, 2022
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Engineering
Pennsylvania drivers know the effects that weather can have on paved roads—potholes, cracks and other pavement woes are a common occurrence. Climate change is accelerating the process, with devastating consequences for ...
Nov 14, 2022
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Energy & Green Tech
Governments need to give technical experts more autonomy and hold their nerve to provide more long-term stability when investing in clean energy, argue researchers in climate change and innovation policy in a new paper published ...
Dec 6, 2017
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Energy & Green Tech
Formula 1 risks wasting its advances in technology and losing mass appeal unless it learns from the mistakes of the last ten years.
Mar 25, 2021
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Energy & Green Tech
The green technology industry could be worth several trillion dollars by 2030 but developing countries will miss out on the boom unless they jump in now, the UN said Thursday.
Mar 16, 2023
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Machine learning & AI
When Deirdre Loughridge first began teaching classes on music technology in 2012, there was a lot of talk about how computers were "dehumanizing" music. The general thought among her students then was that computers could ...
Oct 3, 2023
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