Consumer & Gadgets
Worldwide, humans are living longer than ever before. According to data from the United Nations, approximately 13.5% of the world's people were at least 60 years old in 2020, and by some estimates, that figure could increase ...
Feb 19, 2024
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Energy & Green Tech
Professor David Chiaramonti is looking down at the ground to help resolve a problem up in the sky: airplanes' emissions of carbon dioxide (CO2) and other pollutants.
Feb 19, 2024
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Engineering
Inspired by the distribution of sunflower seeds, a group of scientists say they have developed a new city-pattern that ensures the best distribution of solar energy utilization "in low solar radiation countries."
Feb 19, 2024
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Hardware
Recent technological advances have enabled the development of increasingly sophisticated sensors, which can help to advance the sensing capabilities of robots, drones, autonomous vehicles, and other smart systems. Many of ...
Feb 19, 2024
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Telecom
ETRI's researchers have pioneered the development of light source devices that can be utilized in mega/hyper data centers and 5G/6G mobile communication base stations. The technology innovated by the research team can transmit ...
Feb 19, 2024
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Electronics & Semiconductors
A new phased-array transmitter design overcomes common problems of CMOS technology in the 300 GHz band, as reported by scientists from Tokyo Tech. Thanks to its remarkable area efficiency, low power consumption, and high ...
Feb 19, 2024
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Business
In the world of advancing technology, cyberattacks have been on the rise, causing a potential risk of stolen personal data across 400 million users. In response, governments in all 50 states have introduced breach notification ...
Feb 19, 2024
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Energy & Green Tech
A multi-institutional team of Chinese engineers has developed a proof-of-concept calcium-based battery that withstands 700 charge cycles at room temperature. In their paper published in the journal Nature, the group describes ...
Feb 20, 2024
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Computer Sciences
After a recent car crash, John Murray-Bruce wished he could have seen the other car coming. The crash reaffirmed the USF assistant professor of computer science and engineering's mission to create a technology that could ...
Feb 20, 2024
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Hardware
The continuous improvement of circuits and electronic components is vital for the development of new technologies with enhanced capabilities and unique characteristics. In recent years, most electronics engineers have been ...
Feb 20, 2024
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Consumer & Gadgets
About a quarter of Americans get their news on YouTube. With its billions of users and hours upon hours of content, YouTube is one the largest online media platforms in the world.
Feb 20, 2024
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Engineering
You've likely met someone who identifies as a visual or auditory learner, but others absorb knowledge through a different modality: touch. Being able to understand tactile interactions is especially important for tasks such ...
Feb 20, 2024
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Consumer & Gadgets
Late last week, OpenAI announced a new generative AI system named Sora, which produces short videos from text prompts. While Sora is not yet available to the public, the high quality of the sample outputs published so far ...
Feb 20, 2024
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Engineering
When aerospace engineer Matthew Clarke overlayed flight paths in urban environments over maps showing social stratification, he noticed something significant. The flights went directly overhead low-income neighborhoods.
Feb 20, 2024
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Hi Tech & Innovation
Artificial intelligence is pivotal in advancing biotechnology and medical procedures, ranging from cancer diagnostics to the creation of new antibiotics. However, the ecological footprint of large-scale AI systems is substantial. ...
Feb 21, 2024
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Computer Sciences
Researchers at the University of Trento, Italy, have developed a novel approach for prime factorization via quantum annealing, leveraging a compact modular encoding paradigm and enabling the factorization of large numbers ...
Feb 21, 2024
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Electronics & Semiconductors
Implantable biomedical devices—like pacemakers, insulin pumps and neurostimulators—are becoming smaller and utilizing wireless technology, but hurdles remain for powering the next-generation implants. A new wireless charging ...
Feb 21, 2024
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Energy & Green Tech
A global team of researchers and industry collaborators led by RMIT University has invented recyclable 'water batteries' that won't catch fire or explode.
Feb 21, 2024
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Machine learning & AI
Research participants who read propaganda generated by the AI large language model GPT-3 davinci were nearly as persuaded as those who read real propaganda from Iran or Russia, according to a study published in the journal ...
Feb 21, 2024
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Machine learning & AI
Despite significant progress in developing AI systems that can understand the physical world like humans do, researchers have struggled with modeling a certain aspect of our visual system: the perception of light.
Feb 21, 2024
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Software
Researchers from Carnegie Mellon University, the University Hospital Bonn and the University of Bonn have created an open-source platform known as A-SOiD that can learn and predict user-defined behaviors, just from video. ...
Feb 21, 2024
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Hi Tech & Innovation
A technology that can recognize human emotions in real time has been developed by Professor Jiyun Kim and his research team in the Department of Material Science and Engineering at UNIST. This innovative technology is poised ...
Feb 22, 2024
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Engineering
A team of photonic engineers affiliated with several institutions in China has developed a new type of optical DVD that is capable of holding up to a petabyte of data. The group used a new material to coat the DVDs and new ...
Feb 22, 2024
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Hardware
Imagine doubling the processing power of your smartphone, tablet, personal computer, or server using the existing hardware already in these devices.
Feb 22, 2024
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Machine learning & AI
Modern artificial intelligence, such as ChatGPT, is capable of mimicking human behaviors, but the former has more positive outcomes such as cooperation, altruism, trust and reciprocity.
Feb 22, 2024
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Engineering
A group led by researchers at Nagoya University in Japan has created a material based on fullerene indanones (FIDO), which promises to improve the durability of next-generation solar cells. Durability has been one of the ...
Feb 22, 2024
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Engineering
A new class of metallic materials with potential applications in airplane turbines, nuclear reactors and equipment for space exploration can withstand extreme temperatures and resist fractures, but scientists haven't understood ...
Feb 22, 2024
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Engineering
An international collaboration between EPFL and the University of Glasgow has led to an advanced machine-learning algorithm to effectively detect concealed manufacturing defects in wind turbine composite blades—before turbines ...
Feb 22, 2024
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Robotics
Soft robots inspired by animals can help to tackle real-world problems in efficient and innovative ways. Roboticists have been working to continuously broaden and improve these robots' capabilities, as this could open new ...
Feb 23, 2024
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Electronics & Semiconductors
The downscaling of electronic devices, such as transistors, has reached a plateau, posing challenges for semiconductor fabrication. However, a research team led by materials scientists from City University of Hong Kong (CityU) ...
Feb 23, 2024
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Consumer & Gadgets
A team of security experts at the University of Florida working with security audit company CertiK has found that a certain class of cyberattacks could cause a smartphone to catch fire via its wireless charger. The team has ...
Feb 23, 2024
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Energy & Green Tech
A new approach to waste management could help villages in rural India cut indoor air pollution, improve soil health, and generate clean power, researchers say.
Feb 23, 2024
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Hardware
Imagine being able to build an entire dialysis machine using nothing more than a 3D printer.
Feb 23, 2024
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Automotive
Manchester United's new co-owner Jim Ratcliffe unveiled Friday his Ineos group's latest 4x4 vehicle, which will come in two electric versions as the British billionaire criticized range limits on 'green' cars.
Feb 23, 2024
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Software
SMU Associate Professor Christoph Treude examines the foundations for studies on open-source software and protestware.
Feb 23, 2024
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Robotics
The rapid advancement of deep learning algorithms and generative models has enabled the automated production of increasingly striking AI-generated artistic content. Most of this AI-generated art, however, is created by algorithms ...
Feb 24, 2024
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Business
When her cellphone's service went down this week because of an AT&T network outage, Bernice Hudson didn't panic. She just called the people she wanted to talk to the old-fashioned way—on her landline telephone, the kind ...
Feb 24, 2024
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