Energy & Green Tech
Li-ion and Na-ion batteries operate through a process called intercalation, where ions are stored and exchanged between two chemically different electrodes. In contrast, co-intercalation, a process in which both ions and ...
Jul 21, 2025
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Engineering
Dr. Sung Mook Choi and his research team at the Energy & Environmental Materials Research Division of the Korea Institute of Materials Science (KIMS) have successfully developed a highly durable non-precious metal-based hydrogen ...
Jul 21, 2025
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Robotics
Unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs), commonly known as drones, are now widely used worldwide to tackle various real-world tasks, including filming videos for various purposes, monitoring crops or other environments from above, ...
Jul 21, 2025
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Security
Microsoft has issued an emergency fix to close off a vulnerability in Microsoft's widely-used SharePoint software that hackers have exploited to carry out widespread attacks on businesses and at least some U.S. government ...
Jul 21, 2025
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Machine learning & AI
Artificial intelligence is accelerating at breakneck speed, with larger models dominating the scene—more parameters, more data, more power. But here is the real question: Do we really need bigger to be better? We challenged ...
Jul 21, 2025
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Computer Sciences
Let's say you're reading a story, or playing a game of chess. You may not have noticed, but each step of the way, your mind kept track of how the situation (or "state of the world") was changing. You can imagine this as a ...
Jul 21, 2025
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Machine learning & AI
In the race to develop AI that understands complex images like financial forecasts, medical diagrams and nutrition labels—essential for AI to operate independently in everyday settings—closed-source systems like ChatGPT ...
Jul 21, 2025
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Robotics
While the advent of robotic systems that can complete household chores has been widely anticipated, those commercially released so far are primarily robot vacuums that autonomously clean the floor. In contrast, robots that ...
Jul 22, 2025
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Engineering
Engineering innovations generally require long hours in the lab, with a lot of trial and error through experimentation before zeroing in on the best solution.
Jul 22, 2025
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Computer Sciences
AI image generation—which relies on neural networks to create new images from a variety of inputs, including text prompts—is projected to become a billion-dollar industry by the end of this decade. Even with today's technology, ...
Jul 22, 2025
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Engineering
Recycled glass could become a staple ingredient in building, paving the way for greener construction materials and more sustainable development.
Jul 22, 2025
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Computer Sciences
A study from EPFL reveals why humans excel at recognizing objects from fragments while AI struggles, highlighting the critical role of contour integration in human vision.
Jul 22, 2025
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Computer Sciences
Artificial intelligence chatbots are everywhere these days, from smartphone apps and customer service portals to online search engines. But what happens when these handy tools overestimate their own abilities?
Jul 22, 2025
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Hardware
The startup behind Chicago's more than $1 billion quantum computing deal said operations are expected to start in three years, a win for Illinois Governor JB Pritzker, who backed the investment and is widely seen as a potential ...
Jul 22, 2025
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Software
Tabular data is at the heart of scientific analysis—whether in medicine, the social sciences, or even archaeology. Making it comprehensible and usable is often a tedious task, especially when the data is extensive or complex. ...
Jul 23, 2025
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Electronics & Semiconductors
What do children's building blocks and quantum computing have in common? The answer is modularity.
Jul 23, 2025
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Computer Sciences
Organizing data in a specific order, also known as sorting, is a central computing operation performed by a wide range of systems. Conventional hardware systems rely on separate components to store and sort data, which limits ...
Jul 23, 2025
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Machine learning & AI
A University of Warwick epigraphy expert has collaborated with Google DeepMind to evaluate "Aeneas," an AI model that reimagines Roman inscriptions.
Jul 23, 2025
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Energy & Green Tech
A research team in South Korea has developed a breakthrough transfer printing technology that forms protective thin layers on lithium metal surfaces—an innovation poised to solve the long-standing dendrite issue plaguing ...
Jul 23, 2025
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Computer Sciences
In a world increasingly shaped by artificial intelligence, the question of how machines make decisions under uncertain conditions grows more urgent every day.
Jul 23, 2025
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Security
New research from the University of Waterloo's Cybersecurity and Privacy Institute demonstrates that any artificial intelligence (AI) image watermark can be removed, without the attacker needing to know the design of the ...
Jul 23, 2025
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Telecom
Hi-tech surveillance technologies are a double-edged sword. On the one hand, you want sophisticated devices to detect suspicious behavior and alert authorities. But on the other, there is the need to protect individual privacy. ...
Jul 24, 2025
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Electronics & Semiconductors
The development of more advanced technologies to process radiofrequency signals could further advance wireless communication, allowing devices connected to the internet to share information with each other faster and while ...
Jul 24, 2025
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Machine learning & AI
TrainCheck uses training invariants to find the root cause of hard-to-detect errors before they cause downstream problems, saving time and resources.
Jul 24, 2025
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Energy & Green Tech
Recent key advances in chemistry could tackle emissions from the world's most polluting industries, according to a new study published in Nature Reviews Chemistry.
Jul 24, 2025
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Energy & Green Tech
The process of cleaning the water that flows down our drains and toilets can drastically raise carbon dioxide levels in nearby waterways. Two Johns Hopkins University scientists have found an innovative way to reduce levels ...
Jul 24, 2025
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Robotics
A new slip-prevention method has been shown to improve how robots grip and handle fragile, slippery or asymmetric objects, according to a University of Surrey–led study published in Nature Machine Intelligence. The innovation ...
Jul 24, 2025
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Energy & Green Tech
Tourists who act sustainably on holiday quickly go back to old habits at home—but a weekly chatbot reminder might be all it takes to change that, according to a new study from the University of Surrey.
Jul 24, 2025
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Computer Sciences
It can take years for humans to solve complex scientific problems. With AI, it can take a fraction of the time.
Jul 25, 2025
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Computer Sciences
In an era where manipulated videos can spread disinformation, bully people, and incite harm, UC Riverside researchers have created a powerful new system to expose these fakes.
Jul 25, 2025
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Consumer & Gadgets
Could Meta be on the verge of transforming how we interact with our digital devices? If the company's latest innovation takes off, we might soon be controlling our computers, cell phones and tablets with a simple flick of ...
Jul 25, 2025
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Robotics
For robots to be successfully introduced in a wider range of real-world settings, they should be able to safely and reliably navigate rapidly changing environments. While roboticists and computer scientists have introduced ...
Jul 25, 2025
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Energy & Green Tech
Scientists at King Abdullah University of Science and Technology (KAUST) have uncovered a critical molecular cause keeping aqueous rechargeable batteries from becoming a safer, economical option for sustainable energy storage.
Jul 25, 2025
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Engineering
A research team from the School of Engineering (SENG) at the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (HKUST) has introduced comprehensive bio-inspired multiscale design strategies to address key challenges in the commercialization ...
Jul 25, 2025
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Energy & Green Tech
The European Climate Law dictates that European Union (EU) countries must reduce harmful greenhouse gas emissions by at least 55% by 2030 and become climate neutral by 2050.
Jul 25, 2025
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Engineering
Most people envision vibration on a large scale, like the buzz of a cell phone notification or the oscillation of an electric toothbrush. But scientists think about vibration on a smaller scale—atomic, even.
Jul 26, 2025
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Robotics
When a multimillion-dollar extraterrestrial vehicle gets stuck in soft sand or gravel—as did the Mars rover Spirit in 2009—Earth-based engineers take over like a virtual tow truck, issuing a series of commands that move ...
Jul 26, 2025
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Security
Tea, a provocative dating app designed to let women anonymously ask or warn each other about men they'd encountered, rocketed to the top spot on the U.S. Apple App Store this week. On Friday, the company behind the app confirmed ...
Jul 26, 2025
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Energy & Green Tech
As the electrification of transport and heating accelerates, many worry the increased demand could overload national power grids. In Australia, electricity consumption is expected to double by 2050.
Jul 26, 2025
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Security
China's Premier Li Qiang warned Saturday that artificial intelligence development must be weighed against the security risks, saying global consensus was urgently needed even as the tech race between Beijing and Washington ...
Jul 26, 2025
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Robotics
In an office at MIT's Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory (CSAIL), a soft robotic hand carefully curls its fingers to grasp a small object. The intriguing part isn't the mechanical design or embedded sensors—in ...
Jul 27, 2025
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Robotics
Serving craft beer, playing mahjong, stacking shelves and boxing, the dozens of humanoid robots at Shanghai's World AI Conference (WAIC) this weekend were embodiments of China's growing AI prowess and ambition.
Jul 27, 2025
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Machine learning & AI
The world urgently needs to find a global approach on regulating artificial intelligence, the United Nations' top tech chief said this week, warning that fragmentation could deepen risks and inequalities.
Jul 27, 2025
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Security
Hackers gained access to personal data on the majority of the 1.4 million customers of Allianz Life Insurance Company of North America, the company confirmed Saturday.
Jul 27, 2025
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Business
Indian IT giant Tata Consultancy Services said Sunday it will cut around 2% of its global workforce, or about 12,000 jobs, as demand contracts in the sector it leads.
Jul 27, 2025
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