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AI applications like ChatGPT are based on artificial neural networks that, in many respects, imitate the nerve cells in our brains. They are trained with vast quantities of data on high-performance computers, gobbling up ...
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Energy & Green Tech
A new study overcomes a key challenge to switching commercial aircraft in the U.S. from their near-total reliance on fossil fuels to more sustainable aviation fuels. The study details a cost-effective method for producing ...
Jan 13, 2025
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Energy & Green Tech
Lithium-ion (Li-ion) batteries are an integral part of society, from cellphones and laptops to electric vehicles. While Li-ion batteries have been a major success to date, scientists worldwide are racing to design even better ...
Jan 13, 2025
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Energy & Green Tech
Technological advances have led to the widespread use of electric devices and vehicles. These innovations are not only convenient but also environmentally friendly, offering an alternative to polluting fuel-driven machines.
Jan 13, 2025
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Consumer & Gadgets
Many people around the globe are living in energy poverty, meaning they spend at least 8% of their annual household income on energy. Addressing this problem is not simple, but an experiment by MIT researchers shows that ...
Jan 13, 2025
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Security
Federated learning represents a significant shift in the landscape of machine learning, enabling many clients or devices to collaboratively train models while substantially enhancing the privacy of the data involved.
Jan 13, 2025
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Engineering
Today, nearly all personal electronic devices rely on antennas to send and receive data. In fact, demand is also rising for lightweight antennas for new applications, including the latest in 5G/6G networks, advanced wearable ...
Jan 13, 2025
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Machine learning & AI
A study from Oxford University has uncovered why the deep neural networks (DNNs) that power modern artificial intelligence are so effective at learning from data.
Jan 14, 2025
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Electronics & Semiconductors
Imec, a research and innovation hub in nanoelectronics and digital technologies, has announced a significant milestone in silicon photonics with the successful demonstration of electrically driven GaAs-based multi-quantum-well ...
Jan 14, 2025
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Engineering
Conventional electronics based on silicon are approaching their limits in terms of performance and scalability. In recent years, engineers have thus been trying to introduce alternative designs that could help reduce the ...
Jan 14, 2025
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Engineering
Using pine cones as a model, researchers at the universities of Stuttgart and Freiburg have developed a new, energy-autonomous facade system that adapts passively to the weather. The journal Nature Communications has published ...
Jan 14, 2025
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Energy & Green Tech
The world is hurtling rapidly towards a developed future, and carbon fiber-reinforced polymers (CFRPs) play a key role in enabling technological and industrial progress. These composite materials are lightweight and highly ...
Jan 14, 2025
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Energy & Green Tech
UCLA materials scientists have developed a compact cooling technology that can pump away heat continuously using layers of flexing thin films. The design is based on the electrocaloric effect, in which an electric field causes ...
Jan 14, 2025
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Engineering
Water droplets under freezing conditions do not spontaneously detach from surfaces as they do at room temperature due to stronger droplet-surface interaction and lack of an energy transformation pathway. Since accumulated ...
Jan 14, 2025
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Computer Sciences
A tool developed by Keele University researchers has been shown to help detect fake news with an impressive 99% level of accuracy, offering a vital resource in combating online misinformation.
Jan 15, 2025
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Energy & Green Tech
Federal reservoirs could help meet the country's solar energy needs, according to a study published in Solar Energy.
Jan 15, 2025
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Energy & Green Tech
Engineers have found a way to eliminate the fluid flow "dead zones" that plague the types of electrodes used for battery-based seawater desalination. The new technique uses a physics-based tapered flow channel design within ...
Jan 15, 2025
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Engineering
An international team of engineers has developed an innovative, scalable method for creating topography-patterned aluminum surfaces, enhancing liquid transport properties critical for applications in electronics cooling, ...
Jan 15, 2025
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Automotive
Effective urban traffic management remains a cornerstone of smart city development. With the rise of autonomous vehicles and connected transportation systems, dynamic surveillance solutions are critical to ensuring smooth ...
Jan 15, 2025
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Machine learning & AI
Sign languages have been developed by nations around the world to fit the local communication style, and each language consists of thousands of signs. This has made sign languages difficult to learn and understand.
Jan 15, 2025
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Consumer & Gadgets
The behavior of a cat rubbing its head against a person, known as bunting, is an expression of affection and is believed to have a healing effect on humans.
Jan 15, 2025
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Consumer & Gadgets
Apple lost its status as the best selling smartphone brand in the crucial Chinese market last year, new data showed Thursday, with a pair of local rivals surpassing it with surging shipments.
Jan 16, 2025
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Robotics
Over the past decades, robotic systems have been rapidly advancing, fueled by the continuous introduction of more advanced electronics, mechanical components and software solutions. As a result, robots can easily become obsolete ...
Jan 16, 2025
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Computer Sciences
Reservoir computing (RC) is a powerful machine learning module designed to handle tasks involving time-based or sequential data, such as tracking patterns over time or analyzing sequences. It is widely used in areas such ...
Jan 16, 2025
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Energy & Green Tech
Aviation currently contributes to about 4% of the global warming that has been observed. As demand for flights is likely to continue to increase, researchers and governments are looking for solutions to make aviation climate-neutral ...
Jan 16, 2025
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Software
Artificial intelligence (AI) once seemed like a fantastical construct of science fiction, enabling characters to deploy spacecraft to neighboring galaxies with a casual command. Humanoid AIs even served as companions to otherwise ...
Jan 16, 2025
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Robotics
A complex sense of touch for individuals living with spinal cord injuries is a step closer to reality. A study published in Science, paves the way for complex touch sensations through brain stimulation while using an extracorporeal ...
Jan 16, 2025
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Engineering
Researchers have developed a fast and accurate flexible optical skin that can be used to read Braille. The advance could not only improve access to information for people who are blind but also help move us closer to a future ...
Jan 16, 2025
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Hardware
Existing computer systems have separate data processing and storage devices, making them inefficient for processing complex data like AI. A KAIST research team has developed a memristor-based integrated system similar to ...
Jan 17, 2025
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Robotics
Making Artificial Intelligence systems robustly perceive humans remains one of the most intricate challenges in computer vision. Among the most complex problems is reconstructing 3D models of human hands, a task with wide-ranging ...
Jan 17, 2025
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Engineering
A team of engineers at the California Institute of Technology, working with colleagues from Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory and Princeton University, has developed what they have named polycatenated architected materials ...
Jan 17, 2025
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Electronics & Semiconductors
In recent years, electronics engineers worldwide have been trying to develop new hardware that could further boost the speed and efficiency of wireless communications. Digitally programmable metasurfaces, advanced artificial ...
Jan 17, 2025
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Consumer & Gadgets
Studies have long shown that men are more likely to interrupt, particularly when speaking with women. New research by Johns Hopkins engineers reveals that this behavior also extends to AI-powered voice assistants like Alexa ...
Jan 17, 2025
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Business
Apple pushed out a software update on Thursday which disabled news headlines and summaries generated using artificial intelligence that were lambasted for getting facts wrong.
Jan 17, 2025
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Business
In its early days, the quirky tech startup known as Google adopted a visionary corporate credo: "Don't be evil." That later evolved into the motto: "Do the right thing," reflecting the idealistic ambitions of the company's ...
Jan 17, 2025
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Electronics & Semiconductors
Recent technological advances have enabled the development of increasingly sophisticated and energy-efficient displays for electronic devices. To further improve existing displays and create even more efficient ones, some ...
Jan 18, 2025
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Business
Telegram founder Pavel Durov has told investigating magistrates in France, where he is charged with multiple infractions linked to enabling organized crime, that he "realized the seriousness of all the allegations", according ...
Jan 18, 2025
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Business
As a law that could get TikTok banned in the United States is poised to go into effect, here is a look at the rise of the video-sharing social media platform.
Jan 18, 2025
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Business
TikTok says it will "go dark" in the United States on Sunday, threatening access to the app for 170 million users, unless the government provides assurances that a law mandating its sale or ban won't be used to punish service ...
Jan 18, 2025
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Business
With President-elect Donald Trump adding uncertainty around whether a TikTok ban will go into effect, the focus is now turning to companies like Google and Apple that are expected to take the popular video sharing app off ...
Jan 18, 2025
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Business
US President-elect Donald Trump has launched his own cryptocurrency, appropriately called $TRUMP, sparking feverish buying that sent its market capitalization soaring on Saturday to several billion dollars.
Jan 19, 2025
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Business
For Curtis Sparrer, a work-from-home evangelist, an office is nothing less than a "corporate jail."
Jan 19, 2025
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Internet
TikTok disconnected access to its users in the United States late Saturday shortly before a national ban on the app was to take effect, with President-elect Donald Trump unable to intervene until he takes office.
Jan 19, 2025
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Energy & Green Tech
Electric heavy-duty vehicles offer significant advantages, including reduced noise pollution and lower emissions. However, there's still a disadvantage to overcome—too many heavy-duty electric vehicles (EVs) could overload ...
Jan 19, 2025
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