Machine learning & AI
Artificial intelligence developed to model written language can be utilized to predict events in people's lives. A research project from DTU, University of Copenhagen, ITU, and Northeastern University in the US shows that ...
Dec 18, 2023
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Energy & Green Tech
America's highways and byways would be a wild west if we didn't have automotive standards. So, give some serious respect, please, to these massive documents filled with painstaking technical specifications. After all, they ...
Dec 18, 2023
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Consumer & Gadgets
Apple on Monday said it will stop selling some of its smartwatch models in the United States while it fights a patent battle over technology for detecting blood oxygen levels.
Dec 18, 2023
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Machine learning & AI
An interdisciplinary team consisting of researchers from the Center for Cognition and Sociality and the Data Science Group within the Institute for Basic Science (IBS) revealed a striking similarity between the memory processing ...
Dec 18, 2023
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Energy & Green Tech
In a new study, researchers from the University of Copenhagen have used light and chlorine to eradicate low-concentration methane from air. The result gets us closer to being able to remove greenhouse gases from livestock ...
Dec 18, 2023
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Robotics
Roboticists have been trying to develop robots that can tackle various everyday house chores, such as washing dishes or tidying up, for several years. However, so far none of the robots created has been commercialized adopted ...
Dec 18, 2023
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Consumer & Gadgets
Imagine this. You need an image of a balloon for a work presentation and turn to a text-to-image generator, like Midjourney or DALL-E, to create a suitable image.
Dec 18, 2023
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Robotics
A team of researchers at the University of Tokyo has built a bridge between large language models and robots that promises more humanlike gestures while dispensing with traditional hardware-dependent controls.
Dec 19, 2023
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Robotics
A pair of roboticists at the Munich Institute of Robotics and Machine Intelligence (MIRMI), Technical University of Munich, in Germany, has found that it is possible to give robots some degree of proprioception using machine-learning ...
Dec 19, 2023
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Computer Sciences
What would news stories be without proper sources? To tell a compelling story, reporters need to find newsworthy narratives and trustworthy information. Such information typically comes from a wide pool of publications, official ...
Dec 19, 2023
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Computer Sciences
Large language models (LLMs) are advanced deep learning algorithms that can process written or spoken prompts and generate texts in response to these prompts. These models have recently become increasingly popular and are ...
Dec 19, 2023
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Energy & Green Tech
Decarbonizing U.K. industrial processes to reach Net Zero goals could be achieved with price increases of just 0.8%, academics from the University of Bath's Institute for Sustainability have found.
Dec 19, 2023
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Consumer & Gadgets
This November, Meta rolled out a new subscription model for Facebook and Instagram users in the European Union, where they could pay a fee in exchange for an ad-free browsing experience on Facebook and Instagram. Referred ...
Dec 19, 2023
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Engineering
A research team KAIST from led by Professor Keon Jae Lee has demonstrated the transfer printing of a large number of micro-sized inorganic semiconductor chips via the selective modulation of micro-vacuum force. The research, ...
Dec 19, 2023
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Electronics & Semiconductors
Taking inspiration from the human brain, researchers have developed a new synaptic transistor capable of higher-level thinking.
Dec 20, 2023
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Engineering
Georgia Tech materials engineers have unraveled the mechanism that causes degradation of a promising new material for solar cells—and they've been able to stop it using a thin layer of molecules that repels water.
Dec 20, 2023
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Energy & Green Tech
While lithium-ion batteries currently dominate the industry, serious concern remains about the limited availability of lithium used in these batteries. Conversely, sodium-ion batteries provide a more sustainable alternative ...
Dec 20, 2023
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Hi Tech & Innovation
A non-organic intelligent system has for the first time designed, planned and executed a chemistry experiment, Carnegie Mellon University researchers report in the Dec. 21 issue of the journal Nature.
Dec 20, 2023
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Hi Tech & Innovation
Researchers have developed an augmented reality head-up display that could improve road safety by displaying potential hazards as high-resolution three-dimensional holograms directly in a driver's field of vision in real ...
Dec 20, 2023
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Electronics & Semiconductors
Neuromorphic vision sensors are unique sensing devices that automatically respond to environmental changes, such as a different brightness in their surrounding environment. These sensors mimic the functioning of the human ...
Dec 20, 2023
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Computer Sciences
New research into large language models shows that they repeat conspiracy theories, harmful stereotypes, and other forms of misinformation.
Dec 20, 2023
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Computer Sciences
Harvard researchers have realized a key milestone in the quest for stable, scalable quantum computing, an ultra-high-speed technology that will enable game-changing advances in a variety of fields, including medicine, science, ...
Dec 21, 2023
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Hardware
A team of international scientists have developed an ultra-high speed signal processor that can analyze 400,000 real time video images concurrently, according to a paper published in Communications Engineering.
Dec 21, 2023
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Consumer & Gadgets
Virtual reality (VR) and augmented reality (AR) technologies have become increasingly advanced over the past decade or so, enabling highly engaging gaming experiences and new forms of media entertainment. Yet there is still ...
Dec 21, 2023
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Energy & Green Tech
Polymer-air batteries often face challenges related to stability, kinetics and conductivity. In response, Dr. Jodie Lutkenhaus has developed a method to use a polymer as an anode in these batteries.
Dec 21, 2023
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Business
Sirius XM Radio Inc. was sued by New York state for making it difficult for customers to cancel subscriptions to the broadcaster's online radio services, in violation of state and federal consumer protection laws.
Dec 21, 2023
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Business
Activision Blizzard Chief Executive Bobby Kotick will leave his post at the end of December, bringing his 32-year tenure at the gaming giant to a close.
Dec 21, 2023
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Internet
Tens of thousands of global users of X, formerly Twitter, on Thursday reported problems using the Elon Musk-owned social network.
Dec 21, 2023
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Engineering
A team of researchers, led by Professor Hyong-Ryeol Park from the Department of Physics at UNIST has introduced a technology capable of amplifying terahertz (THz) electromagnetic waves by over 30,000 times. This breakthrough, ...
Dec 22, 2023
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Robotics
Imagine a flying dragon that doesn't spout fire, but instead extinguishes it with blasts of water. Thanks to a team of Japanese researchers, this new kind of beast may soon be recruited to firefighter teams around the world, ...
Dec 22, 2023
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Energy & Green Tech
Researchers led by Genki Kobayashi at the RIKEN Cluster for Pioneering Research in Japan have developed a solid electrolyte for transporting hydride ions (H−) at room temperature.
Dec 22, 2023
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Energy & Green Tech
There are many milestones to pass in the transition from a high to low-carbon sustainable energy system. There is the first hour without coal, or oil, or gas generation (or all of them together) and the point when the last ...
Dec 22, 2023
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Energy & Green Tech
Over the past decades, engineers and materials scientists have been working hard to develop battery technologies that exhibit increasingly better performances. Their efforts are aimed at supporting the needs of the electronics ...
Dec 22, 2023
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Business
A trio of economists and financial analysts, two from Yale University and the other the University of Chicago, has conducted a case study of a nationwide cryptocurrency experiment to better understand why such a monetary ...
Dec 22, 2023
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Machine learning & AI
Joyce Loaiza lives alone, but when she returns to her apartment at a Florida senior community, the retired office worker often has a chat with a friendly female voice that asks about her day.
Dec 22, 2023
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Energy & Green Tech
As the world pivots from planet-warming fossil fuels to renewable energy, a new pollution problem is rearing its head: What to do with old or worn-out solar panels?
Dec 23, 2023
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Engineering
Even as human-caused climate change threatens the environment, nature continues to inspire our technological advancement.
Dec 23, 2023
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Machine learning & AI
Artists under siege by artificial intelligence (AI) that studies their work, then replicates their styles, have teamed with university researchers to stymy such copycat activity.
Dec 24, 2023
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Software
Researchers at NASA's Langley Research Center in Hampton, Virginia recently flew multiple drones beyond visual line of sight with no visual observer. The drones successfully flew around obstacles and each other during takeoff, ...
Dec 24, 2023
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