Energy & Green Tech
Electrocatalytic water splitting, a process that entails breaking down water into hydrogen and oxygen, is a promising approach to produce clean hydrogen for fuel cells, which could in turn be used to power large electric ...
Dec 16, 2024
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Robotics
Two roboticists from the University of Leeds and University College London have developed a framework that enables robots to traverse complex terrain without extra sensors or prior rough terrain training. Joseph Humphreys ...
Dec 16, 2024
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Hi Tech & Innovation
Sign language serves as a sophisticated means of communication vital to individuals who are deaf or hard-of-hearing, relying on hand movements, facial expressions, and body language to convey nuanced meaning. American Sign ...
Dec 16, 2024
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Computer Sciences
Among the many artificial intelligence and machine learning models available today for image translation, image-to-image translation models using Generative Adversarial Networks (GANs) can change the style of images.
Dec 16, 2024
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Electronics & Semiconductors
A team led by Prof. Jang Kyung-In from the Department of Robotics and Mechatronics Engineering (DGIST) has developed a three-dimensional stretchable piezoelectric energy harvester that can harvest electrical energy using ...
Dec 16, 2024
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Engineering
Scientists at Nanyang Technological University, Singapore (NTU Singapore) have developed a 3D concrete printing method that captures carbon, demonstrating a new pathway to reduce the environmental impact of the construction ...
Dec 16, 2024
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Electronics & Semiconductors
In a study appearing in PRX Energy, researchers propose a way to improve the performance of electroluminescent cooling by using multilayer semiconductors. The approach, called a multijunction configuration, is already used ...
Dec 16, 2024
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Engineering
A new study offers hope for people who are blind or have low vision (pBLV) through an innovative navigation system that was tested using virtual reality. The system, which combines vibrational and sound feedback, aims to ...
Dec 17, 2024
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Machine learning & AI
Most major large language models (LLMs) can quickly tell when they are being given a personality test and will tweak their responses to provide more socially desirable results—a finding with implications for any study using ...
Dec 17, 2024
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Engineering
A new visual recognition approach improved a machine learning technique's ability to both identify an object and how it is oriented in space, according to a study presented in October at the European Conference on Computer ...
Dec 17, 2024
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Security
"Cyber security" may sound like a far-off worry for big corporations or telcos, but that's far from the case. Cyber security simply means the practice of safeguarding your sensitive data from unauthorized access, theft and ...
Dec 17, 2024
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Hardware
A new material for high density data storage can be erased and recycled in a more efficient and sustainable way, providing a potential alternative to hard disk drives, solid-state drives and flash memory in the future.
Dec 17, 2024
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Business
For years, Amazon has faced accusations that the pressure the company puts on its warehouse workers to work more quickly has led to higher rates of injuries.
Dec 17, 2024
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Energy & Green Tech
Solar power is currently the fastest growing energy sector worldwide. Solar photovoltaic power plants convert sunlight into electricity and their vast potential for producing clean, renewable energy make solar power a cornerstone ...
Dec 17, 2024
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Machine learning & AI
Large language models (LLMs), the most renowned of which is ChatGPT, have become increasingly better at processing and generating human language over the past few years. The extent to which these models emulate the neural ...
Dec 18, 2024
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Engineering
Scientists in South Korea have developed swarms of tiny magnetic robots that work together like ants to achieve Herculean feats, including traversing and picking up objects many times their size.
Dec 18, 2024
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Consumer & Gadgets
Artificial intelligence (AI) systems tend to take on human biases and amplify them, causing people who use that AI to become more biased themselves, finds a new study by UCL researchers.
Dec 18, 2024
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Hardware
The electronics industry is approaching a limit to the number of transistors that can be packed onto the surface of a computer chip. So, chip manufacturers are looking to build up rather than out.
Dec 18, 2024
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Robotics
Wearable haptic devices, which provide touch-based feedback, can provide more realistic experiences in virtual reality, assist with rehabilitation, and create new opportunities for silent communication. Currently, most of ...
Dec 18, 2024
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Engineering
Max Planck Institute for Sustainable Materials (MPI-SusMat) researchers have transformed dealloying—traditionally seen as a corrosive, destructive process—into a groundbreaking method for creating lightweight, high-strength ...
Dec 18, 2024
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Robotics
University of Queensland researchers have developed a 3D printing method to produce shape-shifting liquid metal robotics with musculoskeletal qualities inspired by animal physiology.
Dec 18, 2024
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Machine learning & AI
Crafting a unique and promising research hypothesis is a fundamental skill for any scientist. It can also be time consuming: New Ph.D. candidates might spend the first year of their program trying to decide exactly what to ...
Dec 19, 2024
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Hi Tech & Innovation
Researchers have developed a laser-based artificial neuron that fully emulates the functions, dynamics and information processing of a biological graded neuron. With a signal processing speed of 10 GBaud—a billion times ...
Dec 19, 2024
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Energy & Green Tech
Monash University researchers have made a breakthrough in energy storage technology that could significantly advance the global shift away from fossil fuels. The discovery, detailed in a study published Dec. 18 in Nature, ...
Dec 19, 2024
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Hi Tech & Innovation
Johns Hopkins computer scientists have created an artificial intelligence system capable of "imagining" its surroundings without having to physically explore them, bringing AI closer to humanlike reasoning.
Dec 19, 2024
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Energy & Green Tech
An international team of scientists has used machine learning to help them develop perovskite solar cells with near-record efficiency. In their paper published in the journal Science, the group describes how they used the ...
Dec 19, 2024
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Computer Sciences
Researchers at University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and University of Maryland recently developed MyTimeMachine (MyTM), a new AI-powered method for personalized age transformation that can make human faces in images ...
Dec 19, 2024
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Telecom
A groundbreaking advancement in technology is paving the way for mobile phones and other electronic devices to recharge simply by being kept in a pocket. This innovative system enables wireless charging throughout three-dimensional ...
Dec 19, 2024
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Energy & Green Tech
While lithium-ion batteries have been the go-to technology for everything from smartphones and laptops to electric cars, there are growing concerns about the future because lithium is relatively scarce, expensive and difficult ...
Dec 20, 2024
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Engineering
Solid-state lithium batteries are promising energy storage solutions that utilize solid electrolytes as opposed to the liquid or gel electrolytes found in traditional lithium-ion batteries (LiBs). Compared to LiBs and other ...
Dec 20, 2024
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Machine learning & AI
Artificial intelligence (AI) has already become an invisible but indispensable collaborator in our lives. It helps filter spam from your inbox, improves your Netflix recommendations, and, as an automotive copilot, suggests ...
Dec 20, 2024
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Energy & Green Tech
Rapid advancements in solid-state battery technology are ushering in a new era of energy storage solutions, with the potential to revolutionize everything from electric vehicles to renewable energy systems. Advances in electrolyte ...
Dec 20, 2024
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Security
The analysis of a person's individual walking pattern, or gait, can reveal details about their identity and reflect differences between individuals, groups and even populations.
Dec 20, 2024
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Security
Drug trafficking and other criminal activities on social media have become a growing social concern. To evade detection by law enforcement and automated monitoring systems, offenders use dark jargons, often combining multiple ...
Dec 20, 2024
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Computer Sciences
As we come to the end of a year in which half the world's population went to the polls, EPFL researchers developed and field-tested a groundbreaking new technology to protect remote electronic voting or e-voting from voter ...
Dec 20, 2024
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Robotics
In recent years, roboticists have developed a wide range of systems that could eventually be introduced in health care and assisted living facilities. These include both medical robots and robots designed to provide companionship ...
Dec 21, 2024
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Consumer & Gadgets
I'm a computer scientist and a bad Christmas shopper. Over the weekend, I wondered whether AI systems might be able to help me out.
Dec 21, 2024
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Business
Google late Friday countered a US call to sell its Chrome browser, suggesting a judge address antitrust concerns by barring the firm from making favorable treatment of its software a condition of licensing.
Dec 21, 2024
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Business
A federal jury in the United States on Friday delivered a key win to mobile commputing titan Qualcomm in a licensing dispute with Arm, although proceedings between the chipmakers ended in mistrial.
Dec 21, 2024
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Security
Police investigating the shooting of UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson on Dec. 4, 2024, have announced that the suspected assailant had used a 3D-printed gun. Several high-profile crimes in recent years have involved this ...
Dec 22, 2024
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Energy & Green Tech
The Australian summer has started to unleash its power. On Monday, the Victorian town of Walpeup reached 47.1°C, and towns in Queensland, western New South Wales, South Australia and the Northern Territory all hit temperatures ...
Dec 22, 2024
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Energy & Green Tech
France on Saturday connected its most powerful nuclear power reactor to the national electricity grid in what leaders hailed as a landmark moment despite years of delays, budget overruns and technical setbacks.
Dec 22, 2024
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Automotive
Stellantis confirmed Saturday it was reversing a decision to lay off 1,100 workers at its Jeep plant in the US state of Ohio, following the ouster of embattled chief executive Carlos Tavares.
Dec 22, 2024
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Business
There are no photos or videos of LocalThunk, an anonymous computer programmer who lives in the vast and desolate prairies of Canada's Saskatchewan province, far from Silicon Valley.
Dec 22, 2024
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