Energy & Green Tech
Ternary organic solar cells, in which the photoactive layer is made of three different organic materials, have been found to achieve highly promising power conversion efficiencies (PCEs). While these ternary organic solar ...
Aug 21, 2023
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Computer Sciences
How does a gambler maximize winnings from a row of slot machines? This is the inspiration for the "multi-armed bandit problem," a common task in reinforcement learning in which "agents" make choices to earn rewards. Recently, ...
Aug 21, 2023
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Energy & Green Tech
Lithium ion batteries are the go-to power source for many of our favorite devices like cell phones and laptops, and their presence will continue to expand as electric vehicles become the new standard, replacing gasoline-powered ...
Aug 21, 2023
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Engineering
In recent years, pneumatic artificial muscles (PAMs) have emerged as promising actuators for simulating human-like movements, with prominent applications in various industries including robotics, rehabilitation, and prosthetics. ...
Aug 21, 2023
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Energy & Green Tech
Most electric vehicles are equipped with an electronic brain that manages day-to-day battery performance and safety. This battery management system, or BMS, includes software that uses algorithms to monitor the overall health ...
Aug 21, 2023
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Energy & Green Tech
A new report released today by CSIRO, Australia's national science agency, and GHD Advisory calls for Australia to focus on hydrogen-powered transport—alongside electric vehicles—or risk being left behind our international ...
Aug 21, 2023
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Energy & Green Tech
The wind doesn't always blow where it's needed–that's the biggest hurdle in fitting wind energy to the nation's portfolio of renewable energy. When the wind isn't blowing, utility companies must turn to other electricity ...
Aug 21, 2023
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Electronics & Semiconductors
Deep neural networks are generating much of the exciting progress stemming from generative AI. But their architecture relies on a configuration that is a virtual speedbump, ensuring the maximal efficiency can not be obtained.
Aug 22, 2023
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Engineering
If coal and natural gas power generation were 2% more efficient, then every year, there could be 460 million fewer tons of carbon dioxide released and 2 trillion fewer gallons of water used. A recent innovation to the steam ...
Aug 22, 2023
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Robotics
Most adult humans are innately able to pick up objects in their environment and hold them in ways that facilitate their use. For instance, when picking up a cooking utensil, they would normally grab it from the side that ...
Aug 22, 2023
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Engineering
Cellular solids are materials composed of many cells that have been packed together, such as in a honeycomb. The shape of those cells largely determines the material's mechanical properties, including its stiffness or strength. ...
Aug 22, 2023
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Engineering
Engineers in Australia have found a way of making stronger concrete with roasted used-coffee grounds, to give the drink-additive a "double shot" at life and reduce waste going to landfills.
Aug 22, 2023
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Energy & Green Tech
Efficient and cheap batteries that can also capture harmful emissions could be right around the corner, thanks to a new system that speeds up the development of catalysts for lithium-CO2 (Li-CO2) batteries.
Aug 22, 2023
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Computer Sciences
Advanced smartphone features attract users who want more from their devices, especially in health and entertainment areas, but do these features create a security risk when making or receiving actual calls? A team of academic ...
Aug 22, 2023
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Engineering
Going to the bathroom may not rank among the most pleasant activities of a day, but given some context, we should be quite appreciative.
Aug 23, 2023
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Software
Researchers at UC San Francisco and UC Berkeley have developed a brain-computer interface (BCI) that has enabled a woman with severe paralysis from a brainstem stroke to speak through a digital avatar.
Aug 23, 2023
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Robotics
A tailsitter is a fixed-wing aircraft that takes off and lands vertically (it sits on its tail on the landing pad), and then tilts horizontally for forward flight. Faster and more efficient than quadcopter drones, these versatile ...
Aug 23, 2023
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Automotive
Autonomous vehicle software used to detect pedestrians is unable to correctly identify dark-skinned individuals as often as those who are light-skinned, according to researchers at King's College in London and Peking University ...
Aug 23, 2023
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Robotics
Ever wonder why the most advanced robots always seem to have hard bodies? Why not more pliable ones, like humans have?
Aug 23, 2023
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Internet
Across Alaska, on fishing boats and cabin roofs and conex containers, flat white antennas are popping up like high-tech mushrooms.
Aug 23, 2023
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Consumer & Gadgets
From a pristinely packaged device on a box-store shelf to a beat-up and abandoned phone stripped of its SIM card, a smartphone's journey from indispensable to deactivated is remarkably brief.
Aug 23, 2023
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Energy & Green Tech
Scientists from NTU Singapore have developed a flexible battery as thin as a human cornea, which stores electricity when it is immersed in saline solution, and which could one day power smart contact lenses.
Aug 24, 2023
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Energy & Green Tech
Prof. Dr. Francesco Ciucci, Chair of Electrode Design for Electrochemical Energy Systems at the University of Bayreuth, in collaboration with his research partners from China, has succeeded in resolving the incompatibility ...
Aug 24, 2023
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Computer Sciences
Generative AI may be riddled with hallucinations, misinformation, and bias, but that didn't stop over half of respondents in a recent global study from saying that they would use this nascent technology for sensitive areas ...
Aug 24, 2023
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Robotics
An innovative bimanual robot displays tactile sensitivity close to human-level dexterity using AI to inform its actions.
Aug 24, 2023
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Internet
A pair of information security specialists at Universita di Catania, working with a colleague from the University of London, have found four security vulnerabilities in one of TP-Link's most popular smart-bulbs. Davide Bonaventura, ...
Aug 24, 2023
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Robotics
Flying robotic systems have already proved to be highly promising for tackling numerous real-world problems, including explorations of remote environments, the delivery of packages in inaccessible sites, and searches for ...
Aug 24, 2023
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Robotics
Imagine you want to carry a large, heavy box up a flight of stairs. You might spread your fingers out and lift that box with both hands, then hold it on top of your forearms and balance it against your chest, using your whole ...
Aug 24, 2023
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Machine learning & AI
Of all the forms of human intellect that one might expect artificial intelligence to emulate, few people would likely place creativity at the top of their list. Creativity is wonderfully mysterious—and frustratingly fleeting. ...
Aug 25, 2023
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Computer Sciences
While West Virginia University researchers see potential in educational settings for the newest official ChatGPT plugin, called Code Interpreter, they've found limitations for its use by scientists who work with biological ...
Aug 25, 2023
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Machine learning & AI
Identifying minerals is a complex and time-consuming problem for geologists, often taking anywhere from 30 minutes to several days per sample. Further complicating the situation is the fact that a sufficient portion of minerals ...
Aug 25, 2023
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Electronics & Semiconductors
Professor Soon-Yong Kwon in the Department of Materials Science and Engineering and the Graduate School of Semiconductor Materials and Devices Engineering at UNIST, in collaboration with Professor Zonghoon Lee, has embarked ...
Aug 25, 2023
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Software
People with vivid imaginations are more likely than others to believe they truly inhabit the worlds they visit in virtual reality (VR) according to new research led by the University of Bath.
Aug 25, 2023
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Telecom
Metasurfaces, artificially engineered surfaces that can manipulate electromagnetic signals in unique ways, have huge potential for several technological applications, including the implementation of sixth generation (6G) ...
Aug 25, 2023
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Internet
Starting Friday, Europeans will see their online life change.
Aug 25, 2023
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Internet
Meta is being accused of endangering lives by blocking news links in Canada at a crucial moment, when thousands have fled their homes and are desperate for wildfire updates that once would have been shared widely on Facebook.
Aug 26, 2023
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Electronics & Semiconductors
For decades, electronics engineers have been trying to develop increasingly advanced devices that can perform complex computations faster and consuming less energy. This has become even more salient after the advent of artificial ...
Aug 27, 2023
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Consumer & Gadgets
From generating story lines to coding entire games to turning ideas into animation, artificial intelligence is front and centre at Gamescom, one of the video game industry's biggest fairs.
Aug 27, 2023
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Machine learning & AI
Silicon Valley's favorite philosophy, longtermism, has helped to frame the debate on artificial intelligence around the idea of human extinction.
Aug 27, 2023
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Automotive
This California summer, passersby on the streets of San Francisco can be divided into two camps: blase locals who are used to a parade of moving cars with no drivers or gobsmacked tourists fumbling for their smartphones to ...
Aug 27, 2023
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