Hardware
Researchers from The University of Texas at Dallas and Seoul National University have developed an imager chip inspired by Superman's X-ray vision that could be used in mobile devices to make it possible to detect objects ...
Jun 10, 2024
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Robotics
Nightmare material or truly man's best friend? A team of researchers equipped a dog-like quadruped robot with a mechanized arm that takes air samples from potentially treacherous situations, such as an abandoned building ...
Jun 10, 2024
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Consumer & Gadgets
Apple on Monday unveiled "Apple Intelligence," its suite of new AI features for its coveted devices—and a partnership with OpenAI—as it seeks to catch up to rivals racing ahead on adopting the white-hot technology.
Jun 10, 2024
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Consumer & Gadgets
Apple's annual World Wide Developers Conference on Monday is expected to herald the company's move into generative artificial intelligence, marking its late arrival to a technological frontier that's expected to be as revolutionary ...
Jun 10, 2024
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Business
Returning end-of-life products to an as-new condition is called remanufacturing and can be an essential element in a circular economy. But for more industrial companies to take an interest in it, remanufacturing must be economically ...
Jun 10, 2024
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Computer Sciences
A framework based on advanced AI techniques can solve complex, computationally intensive problems faster and in a more scalable way than state-of-the-art methods, according to a study led by engineers at the University of ...
Jun 10, 2024
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Robotics
The public release of ChatGPT and other large language models (LLMs) has allowed developers worldwide to start experimenting with these models to enhance the interactive capabilities of their own systems. Similar generalizable ...
Jun 10, 2024
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Engineering
Mechanical engineers at the University of Alberta have teamed up with a renewable energy company to design and test wind turbines based on the wings of the world's heaviest soaring bird: the Andean condor, which is capable ...
Jun 11, 2024
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Computer Sciences
Mark Hamilton, an MIT Ph.D. student in electrical engineering and computer science and affiliate of MIT's Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory (CSAIL), wants to use machines to understand how animals communicate. ...
Jun 11, 2024
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Engineering
The need to transition away from fossil fuels to more sustainable energy production is critical. That's why a team of Concordia researchers is looking at a potential power source that not only produces no carbon emissions ...
Jun 11, 2024
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Electronics & Semiconductors
The reliable generation of random numbers has become a central component of information and communications technology. In fact, random number generators, algorithms or devices that can produce random sequences of numbers, ...
Jun 11, 2024
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Robotics
Researchers from North Carolina State University have demonstrated miniature soft hydraulic actuators that can be used to control the deformation and motion of soft robots that are less than a millimeter thick. The researchers ...
Jun 11, 2024
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Engineering
Inspired by the material that makes up oyster and abalone shells, engineers at Princeton have created a new cement composite that is 17 times more crack-resistant than standard cement and 19 times more able to stretch and ...
Jun 11, 2024
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Engineering
Boosting the performance of solar cells, transistors, LEDs, and batteries will require better electronic materials, made from novel compositions that have yet to be discovered.
Jun 11, 2024
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Engineering
Safer, more efficient movements for factory workers and astronauts, and improved mobility for people with disabilities could someday become a more widespread reality, thanks to research published June 12 in the journal Nature.
Jun 12, 2024
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Robotics
Robotic systems are already being deployed in various settings worldwide, assisting humans with a highly diverse range of tasks. One sector in which robots could prove particularly advantageous is agriculture, where they ...
Jun 12, 2024
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Engineering
The electronics industry faces a new challenge. While transistors in computer chips are shrinking, the heat they produce is only increasing. Overheating can cause reduced circuit performance, increased leakage power or even ...
Jun 12, 2024
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Electronics & Semiconductors
The transition from traditional 2D to 3D microfluidic structures is a significant advancement in microfluidics, offering benefits in scientific and industrial applications. These 3D systems improve throughput through parallel ...
Jun 12, 2024
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Business
Japan on Wednesday enacted legislation to ensure tech giants like Google and Apple give access to third-party smartphone apps and payment systems on their platforms or risk major fines.
Jun 12, 2024
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Telecom
Sometimes a text isn't enough, but a phone or video call would be too much.
Jun 12, 2024
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Security
A team of computer scientists at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign has found that hacking zero-day security flaws using the hierarchical planning with task-specific agents (HPTSA) method is far more efficient than ...
Jun 12, 2024
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Energy & Green Tech
The development of technologies to generate affordable electricity and their deployment in remote or developing geographical regions has been the topic of many recent studies. These studies could inform future interventions ...
Jun 13, 2024
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Energy & Green Tech
Solar power is not only the fastest growing energy technology in recent history but also one of the cheapest energy sources and the most impactful in terms of reducing greenhouse gas emissions.
Jun 13, 2024
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Machine learning & AI
Researchers have developed a technique that allows artificial intelligence (AI) programs to better map three-dimensional spaces using two-dimensional images captured by multiple cameras. Because the technique works effectively ...
Jun 13, 2024
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Electronics & Semiconductors
Researchers at the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) have developed an innovative information-hiding camera to optically transform and conceal input images into ordinary-looking patterns, providing a powerful solution ...
Jun 13, 2024
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Engineering
This year has already seen massive heat waves around the globe, with cities in Mexico, India, Pakistan and Oman hitting temperatures near or past 50 degrees Celsius (122 degrees Fahrenheit).
Jun 13, 2024
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Energy & Green Tech
Although sub-Saharan areas may seem perfect for solar ovens, many people use wood or coal as the main source of energy for cooking, especially in areas that are not connected to the power grid.
Jun 13, 2024
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Engineering
Geothermal energy from the superhot rock miles below our feet has the potential to become a major player in the energy transition, but first we need to develop ways to not only access those rocks, but also extract their heat. ...
Jun 13, 2024
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Robotics
A team of roboticists at the University of Tokyo has taken a new approach to autonomous driving—instead of automating the entire car, simply put a robot in the driver's seat. The group built a robot capable of driving a ...
Jun 14, 2024
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Robotics
A fully edible robot could soon end up on our plate if we overcome some technical hurdles, say EPFL scientists involved in RoboFood—a project which aims to marry robots and food.
Jun 14, 2024
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Energy & Green Tech
In advancing sustainable waste management and CO2 sequestration, researchers have crafted reactors that mineralize carbon dioxide with fly ash particles. This avant-garde technique is set to offer a sustainable and lasting ...
Jun 14, 2024
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Energy & Green Tech
In a breakthrough for lithium recovery technologies, researchers from the Qingdao Institute of Bioenergy and Bioprocess Technology (QIBEBT) of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, together with collaborators, have developed a ...
Jun 14, 2024
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Computer Sciences
Large language models like those that power ChatGPT have shown impressive performance on tasks like drafting legal briefs, analyzing the sentiment of customer reviews, or translating documents into different languages.
Jun 14, 2024
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Robotics
Artificial intelligence (AI) systems that can play games with humans have become increasingly advanced and have already been deployed by countless videogame developers worldwide. Most of these systems, however, are designed ...
Jun 14, 2024
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Hi Tech & Innovation
Imagine finding your location without GPS. Now apply this to tracking an item in the body. This has been the challenge with tracking "smart" pills—pills equipped with smart sensors–once swallowed. At the USC Viterbi School ...
Jun 14, 2024
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Robotics
The performance of artificial intelligence (AI) tools, including large computational models for natural language processing (NLP) and computer vision algorithms, has been rapidly improving over the past decades. One reason ...
Jun 15, 2024
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Energy & Green Tech
Energy researchers have been trying to understand the implications of a transition to fully renewable energy for decades. Some past studies suggested that technologies to generate energy from renewable energy sources, such ...
Jun 15, 2024
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Business
Meta has paused plans to use personal data to train its artificial intelligence technology in Europe, Ireland's regulator said Friday, after the social media giant was hit with privacy complaints.
Jun 15, 2024
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Machine learning & AI
Unlike "traditional" AI that relies on predetermined rules and patterns, generative AI is able to produce novel content—like text, video, images, and music. In a way, unlike old AI, generative AI can think outside the box. ...
Jun 15, 2024
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Business
A Boeing 737 Max suffered damage to parts of the plane's structure after it went into a "Dutch roll" during a Southwest Airlines flight last month, U.S. investigators said Friday.
Jun 15, 2024
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Computer Sciences
Large language models (LLMs), such as the GPT-4 model underpinning the widely used conversational platform ChatGPT, have surprised users with their ability to understand written prompts and generate suitable responses in ...
Jun 16, 2024
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Business
Even though the median U.S. CEO pay package last year was nearly 200 times more than a worker in the middle of their company pay scales, Elon Musk's record-setting Tesla compensation dwarfs them by comparison.
Jun 16, 2024
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Energy & Green Tech
President Aleksandar Vucic said Serbia could exploit lithium as early as 2028 following new guarantees from Australian mining giant Rio Tinto and the EU over the controversial project, the Financial Times reported on Sunday.
Jun 16, 2024
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