Computer Sciences
Developing large-scale neural network models that mimic the brain's activity is a major goal in the field of computational neuroscience. Existing models that accurately reproduce aspects of brain activity are notoriously ...
Sep 16, 2024
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Energy & Green Tech
Researchers from Tokyo Metropolitan University have made strides forward in realizing industrial conversion of bicarbonate solution made from captured carbon to a formate solution, a green fuel. The research is published ...
Sep 16, 2024
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Machine learning & AI
Researchers have found that AI large language models, like GPT-4, are better at predicting what comes next than what came before in a sentence. This "Arrow of Time" effect could reshape our understanding of the structure ...
Sep 16, 2024
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Engineering
Inspired by the architecture of human bone's tough outer layer, engineers at Princeton have developed a cement-based material that is 5.6 times more damage-resistant than standard counterparts. The bio-inspired design allows ...
Sep 16, 2024
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Computer Sciences
Ever been asked a question you only knew part of the answer to? To give a more informed response, your best move would be to phone a friend with more knowledge on the subject.
Sep 16, 2024
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Energy & Green Tech
Renewable energy sources like wind and solar are critical to sustaining our planet, but they come with a big challenge: They don't always generate power when it's needed. To make the most of them, we need efficient and affordable ...
Sep 16, 2024
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Robotics
Many animal species, ranging from insects to amphibians and fish, use jumping as a means of moving within their surrounding environment. Jumping can be very advantageous for these animals, for instance, allowing them to reach ...
Sep 16, 2024
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Business
When Elon Musk took over Twitter in 2022, it marked a new era for the struggling San Francisco company.
Sep 17, 2024
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Electronics & Semiconductors
A key step toward reusing CO2 to make sustainable fuels is chaining carbon atoms together, and an artificial photosynthesis system developed at the University of Michigan can bind two of them into hydrocarbons with field-leading ...
Sep 17, 2024
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Robotics
Ensuring that robots can smoothly collaborate with humans in real-world environments is a crucial step towards their large-scale deployment. While some robotic systems are already engaging daily with human agents, for instance ...
Sep 17, 2024
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Energy & Green Tech
Hot on the heels of still-dominant diesel cars, electric vehicles now outnumber petrol models for the first time in oil-rich Norway, a world first that puts the country on track to taking fossil fuel vehicles off the road.
Sep 17, 2024
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Engineering
A discovery six years ago took the condensed-matter physics world by storm: Ultra-thin carbon stacked in two slightly askew layers became a superconductor, and changing the twist angle between layers could toggle their electrical ...
Sep 17, 2024
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Business
The Global Media Internet Concentration Project examines the concentration of the communications and media in countries around the world.
Sep 17, 2024
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Business
Tomorrow's workplace will be run on mind-boggling amounts of data. To make sense of it all, businesses, developers and individuals will need better artificial intelligence (AI) systems, better trained AI workers and more ...
Sep 17, 2024
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Robotics
A set of knee exoskeletons, built with commercially available knee braces and drone motors at the University of Michigan, has been shown to help counteract fatigue in lifting and carrying tasks. They helped users maintain ...
Sep 18, 2024
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Energy & Green Tech
To date, there are no uniform standards for research into solid-state batteries, which are also to be used in e-mobility in the long term—even though billions are being invested in this area worldwide. Researchers at the ...
Sep 18, 2024
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Engineering
A new study by University of Massachusetts Amherst researchers demonstrates the effectiveness of homemade play putty at reading brain, heart, muscle and eye activity. Published in Device, the research outlines the conductive ...
Sep 18, 2024
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Engineering
A new study lays out a wide range of options available to cost-effectively eliminate greenhouse gas production from the energy system in the United States by 2050. The findings give policymakers and industry leaders valuable ...
Sep 18, 2024
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Machine learning & AI
Some of the greatest discoveries don't come merely from observations but from thinking. Einstein developed theories about relativity through thought experiments, and Galileo derived insights about gravity through mental simulations.
Sep 18, 2024
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Robotics
Scientists at the Max-Planck-Institute for Intelligent Systems (MPI-IS) have developed hexagon-shaped robotic components, called modules, that can be snapped together LEGO-style into high-speed robots that can be rearranged ...
Sep 18, 2024
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Internet
It is difficult to spend any time on the internet these days without being inundated with advertisements.
Sep 18, 2024
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Engineering
A team of engineers from the Center for Nanoparticle Research, Seoul National University, the Gwangju Institute of Science and Technology and the Korea Institute of Science and Technology, all in Korea, has developed a new ...
Sep 19, 2024
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Energy & Green Tech
A team of physicists and engineers affiliated with several institutions in China has developed an extremely small nuclear battery that they claim is up to 8,000 times more efficient than its predecessors. Their paper is published ...
Sep 19, 2024
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Electronics & Semiconductors
Researchers have developed a new organic thermoelectric device that can harvest energy from ambient temperature. While thermoelectric devices have several uses today, hurdles still exist to their full utilization. By combining ...
Sep 19, 2024
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Engineering
Metal production is responsible for 10% of global CO2 emissions, with iron production emitting two tons of CO2 for every ton of metal produced, and nickel production emitting 14 tons of CO2 per ton and even more, depending ...
Sep 19, 2024
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Energy & Green Tech
A new way of making ammonia, by harnessing the unique power of liquid metal, could lead to significant cuts in carbon emissions caused by production of the widely-used chemical.
Sep 19, 2024
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Machine learning & AI
The development of artificial intelligence should not be guided by market forces alone, UN experts cautioned on Thursday, calling for the creation of tools for global cooperation.
Sep 19, 2024
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Consumer & Gadgets
A new study from researchers at MIT and Penn State University reveals that if large language models were to be used in home surveillance, they could recommend calling the police even when surveillance videos show no criminal ...
Sep 19, 2024
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Business
A new analysis led by a group of college researchers finds the U.S. will fall short of its recently finalized target for reducing vehicle emissions by nearly 15 percent over the next decade because of unrealistic goals for ...
Sep 20, 2024
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Engineering
In recent years, electronics engineers have developed a wide range of wearable and implantable devices that can detect and record biological signals. These devices can help to keep track of various physiological processes, ...
Sep 20, 2024
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Consumer & Gadgets
Apple is giving more people the chance to test a software update that will implant artificial intelligence into its virtual assistant Siri and automate a variety of tedious tasks on the latest iPhone coming out Friday.
Sep 20, 2024
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Business
A cleaning process leading to fuel hose degradation during refurbishment may have caused a recent Airbus A350 engine fire that triggered dozens of Cathay Pacific flight cancellations this month, the EU aviation regulator ...
Sep 20, 2024
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Business
A years-long analysis shows that social media titans engaged in "vast surveillance" to make money from people's personal information, according to the US Federal Trade Commission (FTC).
Sep 20, 2024
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Machine learning & AI
Using a fusion of traditional and novel technological methods, researchers are hoping to better quantify emotions to transform the face of the emotion quantification field
Sep 20, 2024
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Business
Using state-of-the-art energy efficiency technologies to renovate existing properties and construct new ones could enable Europe's construction sector to almost eliminate its carbon emissions by 2060, a new study suggests.
Sep 20, 2024
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Energy & Green Tech
A team of Belgian students and engineers on Friday won a solar-powered car race in South Africa, widely considered the most challenging for testing the technology.
Sep 21, 2024
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Business
According to the latest Bloomberg Billionaires Index, Pony Ma, co-founder of Tencent Holdings, is once again China's richest person, now with a net worth of more than A$65 billion, placing him 27th globally.
Sep 21, 2024
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Business
Google opened its defense against allegations that it holds an illegal monopoly on online advertising technology Friday with witness testimony saying the industry is vastly more complex and competitive than portrayed by the ...
Sep 21, 2024
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Business
Boeing on Friday replaced the head of its troubled defense and space business, which has struggled with money-losing government contracts and embarrassing setbacks involving its Starliner space capsule.
Sep 21, 2024
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Business
Social media platform X has named a legal representative in Brazil—a first step toward being able to resume service in the country—but its suspension will continue until it meets further requirements, a judge has ruled.
Sep 22, 2024
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Business
Last month, OpenAI came out against a yet-to-be enacted Californian law that aims to set basic safety standards for developers of large artificial intelligence (AI) models. This was a change of posture for the company, whose ...
Sep 22, 2024
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Automotive
Cambridge University has today released a report outlining a five-year roadmap to help the aviation sector achieve net-zero climate impact by 2050.
Sep 22, 2024
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