Computer Sciences
Machine learning is a field of artificial intelligence (AI) where computer models become experts in various tasks by consuming large amounts of data. This is instead of a human explicitly programming this level of expertise.
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Engineering
A promising, more durable fuel cell design could help transform heavy-duty trucking and other clean fuel cell applications. Consisting of nanowires that are less susceptible to corrosion than other designs, the innovative ...
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Robotics
Humans often take their fine motor abilities for granted. Recreating the mechanical precision of the human body is no easy task—one that graduate students in CMU's Mechanical Engineering Department hope to simplify through ...
Aug 14, 2023
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Consumer & Gadgets
In the early 2000s, computer hobbyists could walk into any of nearly 700 Barnes and Noble bookstores and find aisle after aisle filled with manuals on programming, coding, design, the internet and virtually any other topic ...
Aug 14, 2023
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Computer Sciences
ChatGPT has been touted as a tool that is going to revolutionize the workplace and home. AI systems like it have the potential to enhance productivity but could also displace jobs. The ChatGPT website received 1.5 billion ...
Aug 14, 2023
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Energy & Green Tech
A team of hydrologists and bioengineers affiliated with several institutions across Europe has found, via modeling, that building dams to generate hydroelectricity in Africa may be not be a cost-effective approach in light ...
Aug 14, 2023
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Automotive
A new study finds that "connected" vehicles, which share data with each other wirelessly, significantly improve travel time through intersections—but automated vehicles can actually slow down travel time through intersections ...
Aug 14, 2023
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Machine learning & AI
Artificial neural networks, ubiquitous machine-learning models that can be trained to complete many tasks, are so called because their architecture is inspired by the way biological neurons process information in the human ...
Aug 15, 2023
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Engineering
A team of mechanical engineers from Chung-Ang University, Massachusetts General Hospital, LS Materials and Yonsei University has found that a hand-held cylinder containing crumpled aluminum foil balls is capable of producing ...
Aug 15, 2023
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Energy & Green Tech
New research suggests a new solar energy design, inspired by nature, may pave the way for future renewable energy technologies.
Aug 15, 2023
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Energy & Green Tech
Batteries are devices that store and release energy by moving charged particles called ions between two materials called electrodes. The electrodes are separated by a liquid or gel called an electrolyte, which contains ions ...
Aug 15, 2023
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Robotics
Dartmouth researchers are crafting soft robotic blocks that can work in unison to create structures able to bear weight, roll, walk, grip objects and transport loads.
Aug 15, 2023
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Energy & Green Tech
American Airlines and Google were able to cut contrails made by jets by more than half during a small trial, a move that could significantly reduce the global-warming footprint of the travel industry, but with a slight increase ...
Aug 15, 2023
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Engineering
Stop me if you've seen this before: a black and white pixelated square in lieu of a physical menu at a restaurant.
Aug 15, 2023
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Security
It may be impossible to calculate the time spent and the financial and emotional costs of combating the bad guys lurking around the web, but one thing is for sure: Users and website operators both are getting fed up with ...
Aug 16, 2023
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Energy & Green Tech
Borrowing from cell membranes, the protective barriers around cells in all living organisms, Penn State scientists have developed a new, cost-effective method for creating bio-inspired solar devices that could improve the ...
Aug 16, 2023
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Electronics & Semiconductors
Among the many hazards encountered by space probes, exposure to radiation and huge temperature swings pose particular challenges for their electronic circuits. Now KAUST researchers have invented the first ever flash memory ...
Aug 16, 2023
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Engineering
Solar technologies have become increasingly advanced over the years, with the discovery of new photovoltaic materials and designs. While solar cells based on a mixture of organic and inorganic halide perovskite materials ...
Aug 16, 2023
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Engineering
Indoor air pollution may have met its match. Today, scientists will report that they have designed catalyst-coated lampshades that transform indoor air pollutants into harmless compounds. The lampshades work with halogen ...
Aug 16, 2023
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Electronics & Semiconductors
Traditional memory technologies face limitations in terms of speed, scalability, and power consumption, making them unsuitable for future data-intensive applications. Ferroelectric memory has garnered immense interest in ...
Aug 16, 2023
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Engineering
Imec, a research and innovation hub in nanoelectronics and digital technologies, has presented the successful integration of a pinned photodiode structure in thin-film image sensors.
Aug 16, 2023
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Energy & Green Tech
Researchers at the University of Colorado have developed a new and efficient way to produce green hydrogen or green syngas, a precursor to liquid fuels. The findings could open the door for more sustainable energy use in ...
Aug 17, 2023
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Engineering
The first guy on Earth who ever got lost probably said to himself, "I could really use a set of geographic coordinates expressed as latitude and longitude right about now." Time passed, neocortexes evolved, and eventually, ...
Aug 17, 2023
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Energy & Green Tech
Today's electric cars use large lithium-ion batteries, which work fairly well. They can store a fairly high amount of energy in relation to their weight. They also don't need to be completely discharged each time before being ...
Aug 17, 2023
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Robotics
We've watched the remarkable evolution of robotics over the past decade with models that can walk, talk and make gestures like humans, undertake tasks from moving heavy machinery to delicately manipulating tiny objects, and ...
Aug 17, 2023
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Robotics
RoboCup is an international annual event designed to showcase advances in the fields of robotics and artificial intelligence (AI). At this event, different teams of humanoid robots play soccer against each other,
Aug 17, 2023
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Computer Sciences
An international group of researchers led by Minghao Hu of the University of Arizona in Tucson and Zongliang Wu of Westlake University in Hangzhou conducted experiments in multidimensional computational imaging to compare ...
Aug 17, 2023
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Engineering
The city of Gatineau is planning a tramway network that will link up with Ottawa, where the Light Rail Transit (LRT) continues to be bogged down by major mishaps. With Montreal's new Réseau express métropolitain (REM) light ...
Aug 17, 2023
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Machine learning & AI
Pictures, preferences, names, dates… Have you ever wondered why Big Tech and artificial intelligence (AI) companies collect so much personal information about you? A new paper out this week reveals a big reason why: self-relevance ...
Aug 18, 2023
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Energy & Green Tech
Over the past three centuries, especially since the Industrial Revolution in the late 18th and 19th centuries, human activities have significantly increased greenhouse gas levels in the Earth's atmosphere. The main culprits ...
Aug 18, 2023
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Energy & Green Tech
Zinc-air batteries have emerged as a better alternative to lithium in a recent Edith Cowan University (ECU) study into the advancement of sustainable battery systems.
Aug 18, 2023
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Engineering
A team of mechanical engineers at Ecole Centrale de Lyon has found that long-distance runners using pacers to reduce drag can improve their run times by running in particular formations. In their study, reported in the journal ...
Aug 18, 2023
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Engineering
Winking, grimacing or nodding their heads, robots mimicked the expressions of visitors at a robot expo in Beijing.
Aug 18, 2023
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Energy & Green Tech
The US has committed to reaching net-zero emissions by 2050. To accomplish this goal, large cuts in emissions are necessary, especially in high-emission sectors like the building industry.
Aug 18, 2023
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Energy & Green Tech
Closed-loop pumped storage hydropower systems rank as having the lowest potential to add to the problem of global warming for energy storage when accounting for the full impacts of materials and construction, according to ...
Aug 18, 2023
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Security
Key computer systems at hospitals and clinics in several states have yet to come back online more than two weeks after a cyberattack that forced some emergency room shutdowns and ambulance diversions.
Aug 19, 2023
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Automotive
First came the robotaxis. Then the driverless buses arrived.
Aug 19, 2023
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Automotive
General Motors' Cruise autonomous vehicle unit has agreed to cut its fleet of San Francisco robotaxis in half as authorities investigate two recent crashes in the city.
Aug 20, 2023
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Business
Elon Musk said Friday his social media company X would scrap a feature that allows users to block posts from specific accounts.
Aug 20, 2023
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