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Digital twin method can boost wireless network speed and reliability
Computer science researchers have developed a new method for predicting what data wireless computing users will need before they need it, making wireless networks faster and more reliable. The new method makes use of a technique ...
Telecom
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Engineering team uses salt for thermal energy storage
From keeping warm in the winter to doing laundry, heat is crucial to daily life. But as the world grapples with climate change, buildings' increasing energy consumption is a critical problem. Currently, heat is produced by ...
Engineering
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Towards net-zero energy houses: Optimizing the size of photovoltaic systems
Residential buildings account for a large percentage of global energy consumption, and many countries around the world are looking into effective solutions to this issue amidst the ongoing energy crisis. Consistent with global ...
Engineering
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Q&A: Weather-related power outages are on the rise. Here's why, and what to expect in the future
When Hurricane Beryl swept across Texas in early July, it left more than 3 million homes and businesses without power for days or longer. Local hospitals reported a spike in heat-related illnesses amid the widespread power ...
Consumer & Gadgets
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Ensuring safety and fairness in artificial intelligence
Many decisions that were previously made by humans will be left to machines in the future. But can we really rely on the decisions made by artificial intelligence? In sensitive areas, people would like a guarantee that the ...
Machine learning & AI
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New learning-based method trains robots to reliably pick up and place objects
Most robotic systems developed to date can either tackle a specific task with high precision or complete a range of simpler tasks with low precision. For instance, some industrial robots can complete specific manufacturing ...
Sea slug feeding structure model informs soft robot design
Carnegie Mellon University researchers at the Biohybrid and Organic Robotics Group (B.O.R.G.) led by Victoria Webster-Wood, in collaboration with researchers at Case Western Reserve University, are studying the sea slug feeding ...
Robotics
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Event-driven optical encryption advances information security through neuromorphic imaging
In an era where the internet connects virtually every aspect of our lives, the security of information systems has become paramount. Safeguarding critical databases containing private and commercial information presents a ...
Hi Tech & Innovation
3 hours ago
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Navigating digital financial inclusion in Africa
As the presence of mobile phones becomes increasingly widespread in Africa, digital services have allowed for more financial inclusion among low- and middle-income countries within the continent. Through a system known as ...
Consumer & Gadgets
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First meltdown-proof nuclear reactor passes loss of cooling test in China
A team of engineers from Tsinghua University, working at China's high-temperature reactor with a pebble-bed module (HTR-PM), claims that the reactor has passed a critical cooling test. In their study, published in Joule, ...
Battery-free technology can power electronic devices using ambient radiofrequency signals
Ubiquitous wireless technologies like Wi-Fi, Bluetooth, and 5G rely on radio frequency (RF) signals to send and receive data. A new prototype of an energy harvesting module—developed by a team led by scientists from the ...
Electronics & Semiconductors
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Intelligent compaction: Ensuring highway durability with advanced monitoring
Highway construction often faces challenges in ensuring long-term subgrade performance due to traditional compaction quality control (QC) methods that rely on manual adjustments and sporadic testing. These methods are susceptible ...
Engineering
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From gray to green: Unveiling the future of renewable e-methanol for cleaner shipping fuels
Methanol is a crucial chemical feedstock and a potential green fuel, particularly for the shipping industry. Currently, its production predominantly relies on fossil feedstocks, leading to high greenhouse gas emissions.
Energy & Green Tech
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Budget airlines make money from extra charges, but savvy travelers benefit, too
If you're about to jet off on a summer flight, the chances of you having secured a bargain at this peak time of the year are slim. And as well as the cost of your tickets, you may have grudgingly paid various amounts on top ...
Business
3 hours ago
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Small modular reactors have promise, but researchers find they're unlikely to help Australia hit net zero by 2050
Australia's clean energy transition is already underway, driven by solar, wind, batteries and new transmission lines.
Energy & Green Tech
3 hours ago
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Study: When allocating scarce resources with AI, randomization can improve fairness
Organizations are increasingly utilizing machine-learning models to allocate scarce resources or opportunities. For instance, such models can help companies screen resumes to choose job interview candidates or aid hospitals ...
Computer Sciences
5 hours ago
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FraudGPT and other malicious AIs are the new frontier of online threats. What can we do?
The internet, a vast and indispensable resource for modern society, has a darker side where malicious activities thrive.
Security
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Social robot or digital avatar, users interact with this AI technology as if it's real
Humans are interacting more than ever with artificial intelligence (AI)—from the development of the first "social robots" (a robot with a physical body programmed to interact and engage with humans) like Kismet in the 1990s ...
Robotics
3 hours ago
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France quietly catches rivals in battle for data center supremacy
At the end of a narrow suburban street north of Paris, a giant structure shrouded in a skin of mesh and steel looks like a football stadium, but is in fact a vast data center.
Business
10 hours ago
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Renewables overproduction turns electricity prices negative
With the proliferation of solar panels and wind turbines an unusual phenomenon is becoming more and more frequent: wholesale electricity prices turn negative.
Energy & Green Tech
11 hours ago
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