Engineering
Introducing the fashion of the future: A T-shirt that you can wear a few times, then, when you get bored with it, dissolve and recycle to make a new shirt.
Jun 17, 2024
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Robotics
New research from the University of Massachusetts Amherst shows that programming robots to create their own teams and voluntarily wait for their teammates results in faster task completion, with the potential to improve manufacturing, ...
Jun 17, 2024
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Energy & Green Tech
The first generation of lithium-ion batteries for electric vehicles has been a remarkable success story. Yet, the question arises: What changes to battery materials will spur further advances to extend driving range and lower ...
Jun 17, 2024
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Business
Apple, a company known for its longstanding commitment to user privacy, has received flak since unveiling its artificial intelligence (AI) strategy at its Worldwide Developers Conference on June 10. This relates to the centerpiece ...
Jun 17, 2024
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Robotics
While roboticists have introduced increasingly sophisticated systems over the past decades, teaching these systems to successfully and reliably tackle new tasks has often proved challenging. Part of this training entails ...
Jun 17, 2024
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Machine learning & AI
You've likely heard that a picture is worth a thousand words, but can a large language model (LLM) get the picture if it's never seen images before?
Jun 17, 2024
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Machine learning & AI
By now, all of us have heard and read a lot about artificial intelligence (AI). You've likely used some of the countless AI tools that are becoming available. For some, AI feels like a magic wand that predicts the future.
Jun 17, 2024
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Energy & Green Tech
The electrification of road vehicles has already begun, with most automotive companies now investing in hybrid and electric cars. While these efforts could contribute to reducing carbon emissions worldwide, they have so far ...
Jun 18, 2024
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Robotics
Engineers at The University of Manchester have unlocked the secrets to designing a robot capable of jumping 120 meters—higher than any other jumping robot designed to date.
Jun 18, 2024
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Robotics
Eindhoven researchers have developed a soft robotic "hand" made from liquid crystals and graphene that could be used to design future surgical robots. The new work has just been published in the journal ACS Applied Materials ...
Jun 18, 2024
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Energy & Green Tech
When you graph electricity demand in power grids with lots of solar panels, it looks a bit like a duck, with high points in the morning and evening (when people are relying on the grid) and a big dip in the middle of the ...
Jun 18, 2024
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Business
When Bae Jin-soo quit his well-paying job at one of South Korea's biggest conglomerates to write stories, his parents were so upset they kicked him out of the house.
Jun 18, 2024
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Computer Sciences
Imagine driving through a tunnel in an autonomous vehicle, but unbeknownst to you, a crash has stopped traffic up ahead. Normally, you'd need to rely on the car in front of you to know you should start braking. But what if ...
Jun 18, 2024
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Consumer & Gadgets
A new line of PCs specially made to run artificial intelligence programs hit stores on Tuesday as tech companies push toward wider adoption of ChatGPT-style AI.
Jun 18, 2024
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Engineering
A research team has achieved progress in studying van der Waals (vdW) contacts for two-dimensional (2D) electrical devices. The team developed an innovative all-stacking technique for fabricating 2D electrical devices, optimizing ...
Jun 19, 2024
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Engineering
A pair of engineers at the University of Central Florida has found that autonomous vehicles are generally safer than those driven by humans except under two conditions.
Jun 19, 2024
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Software
A combined team of security experts from Seoul National University and Samsung Research has found a vulnerability in memory tagging extensions (MTEs) employed by ARM processors as a means of protection from memory leaks. ...
Jun 19, 2024
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Energy & Green Tech
Ethylene (C2H4) is a highly flammable compound widely used in numerous settings, including the manufacturing of packaging and plastic-based items, the chemical industry, agriculture and health care. Developing effective and ...
Jun 19, 2024
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Business
A US banking giant fired more than a dozen employees for "simulating keyboard activity," highlighting a battle within productivity-obsessed corporate America to tame a culture of faking work with gizmos such as mouse jigglers.
Jun 19, 2024
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Energy & Green Tech
Researchers have developed a new technique to solve the problem of how to increase the capacity of sodium-ion batteries.
Jun 19, 2024
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Electronics & Semiconductors
US chip-maker Onsemi will invest up to $2 billion to expand its plant in the Czech Republic, the biggest investment in the country's modern history, the industry minister said Wednesday.
Jun 19, 2024
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Energy & Green Tech
Hydrogen fuel cells, devices that can convert the chemical energy stored in hydrogen into electrical energy via an electrochemical reaction, are promising solutions for electrifying large vehicles. Fuel cells based on low-temperature ...
Jun 20, 2024
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Energy & Green Tech
Hydrogen is a promising chemical and energy vector to decarbonize our society. Unlike conventional fuels, hydrogen utilization as a fuel does not generate carbon dioxide in return. Unfortunately, today, most of the hydrogen ...
Jun 20, 2024
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Internet
As travelers rush to book their summer getaways, Booking.com's internet safety boss says watch out for supercharged AI scams.
Jun 20, 2024
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Computer Sciences
It reads. It talks. It collates mountains of data and recommends business decisions. Today's artificial intelligence might seem more human than ever. However, AI still has several critical shortcomings.
Jun 20, 2024
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Energy & Green Tech
Switching from gas-powered cars to electric vehicles is one way to reduce carbon emissions, but building the lithium-ion batteries that power those EVs can be an energy-intensive and polluting process itself. Now researchers ...
Jun 20, 2024
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Computer Sciences
When scientists pushed the world's fastest supercomputer to its limits, they found those limits stretched beyond even their biggest expectations.
Jun 20, 2024
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Energy & Green Tech
Hydropower plants need not be disastrous for fishermen and nature. For that, we need to place new dams more strategically, but also modify or even remove some existing ones. Valerio Barbarossa and Rafael Schmitt showed that ...
Jun 20, 2024
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Energy & Green Tech
High-capacity lithium-ion batteries (LIBs) could play a crucial role in the electrification of vehicles and other large electronics. To successfully deploy these batteries on a large scale, however, engineers will first need ...
Jun 21, 2024
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Engineering
Florida Atlantic Center for Connected Autonomy and Artificial Intelligence (CA-AI.fau.edu) researchers have "cracked the code" on interference when machines need to talk with each other—and people.
Jun 21, 2024
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Energy & Green Tech
In a study published in Advanced Materials, a research team led by Prof. Zhang Yunxia from the Hefei Institutes of Physical Science of the Chinese Academy of Sciences has developed an integrated bulk and surface commodification ...
Jun 21, 2024
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Business
American Express will acquire the dining reservation and event management platform Tock from Squarespace for $400 million cash.
Jun 21, 2024
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Computer Sciences
A small team of AI researchers at Google's DeepMind project has found that LLMs are not very good at writing jokes that are funny. They asked stand-up comedians to use LLMs to write a stand-up routine for them and posted ...
Jun 21, 2024
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Energy & Green Tech
To make organic solar cells (OSC) competitive, the light-absorbing molecules should simultaneously satisfy multiple key requirements, including a weak-absorption charge transfer state, a high dielectric constant, suitable ...
Jun 21, 2024
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Computer Sciences
Quantum computing is a rapidly growing technology that utilizes the laws of quantum physics to solve complex computational problems that are extremely difficult for classical computing. Researchers worldwide have developed ...
Jun 21, 2024
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Security
An investigation into a ransomware attack earlier this month on London hospitals by the Russian group Qilin could take weeks to complete, the country's state-run National Health Service said Friday, as concerns grow over ...
Jun 22, 2024
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Machine learning & AI
While seeking research internships last year, University of Washington graduate student Kate Glazko noticed recruiters posting online that they'd used OpenAI's ChatGPT and other artificial intelligence tools to summarize ...
Jun 22, 2024
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Machine learning & AI
It all started at a Denny's in San Jose in 1993. Three engineers—Jensen Huang, Chris Malachowsky and Curtis Priem—gathered at the diner in what is now the heart of Silicon Valley to discuss building a computer chip that ...
Jun 22, 2024
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Business
Facial recognition startup Clearview AI reached a settlement Friday in an Illinois lawsuit alleging its massive photographic collection of faces violated the subjects' privacy rights, a deal that attorneys estimate could ...
Jun 22, 2024
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Energy & Green Tech
It seems like energy policies are constantly making headlines these days. Should Canada "axe the tax?" Is it time to end the tax breaks to Canadian fossil fuel companies and invest in renewable energy? Are electric vehicles ...
Jun 22, 2024
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Robotics
Robots that can navigate various terrains both rapidly and efficiently could be highly advantageous, as they could successfully complete complex missions in challenging environments. For instance, these robots could help ...
Jun 23, 2024
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Business
Advances in artificial intelligence are poised to drive a "massive" boom in online grocery deliveries, according to the head of Picnic, a Dutch app-only supermarket rapidly expanding into Germany and France.
Jun 23, 2024
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Robotics
An elephant uses its trunk for eating, drinking water, communicating, exploring the environment, social behavior, and making and using tools. The trunk, which contains six muscle groups, is not only very strong—it can uproot ...
Jun 23, 2024
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Energy & Green Tech
On the weekend, an area 20km off the Illawarra coast south of Sydney became Australia's fourth offshore wind energy zone. It's the most controversial zone to date, with consultation attracting a record 14,211 submissions—of ...
Jun 23, 2024
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Business
Manchester Airport, the third-busiest in Britain, cancelled over 100 flights affecting thousands of passengers Sunday following a major power cut.
Jun 23, 2024
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Business
For a few days, AI chip juggernaut Nvidia sat on the throne as the world's biggest company, but behind its staggering success are questions on whether new entrants can stake a claim to the artificial intelligence bonanza.
Jun 23, 2024
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