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Airbus and Boeing supremacy secure despite turbulence
Boeing's safety troubles and the Airbus scramble to ramp up production should have left a gap for smaller rivals to challenge their domination of the commercial airliner market.
Business
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Experts warn against hype for deriving green hydrogen from direct seawater electrolysis
At first glance, the plan sounds compelling: invent and develop future electrolyzers capable of producing hydrogen directly from unpurified seawater. But a closer look reveals that such direct seawater electrolyzers would ...
Energy & Green Tech
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New microgrids model takes into account a fair design of decentralized energy systems
Local decentralized energy systems, known as microgrids, can make urban infrastructures more resilient and reduce risks for the population, for example, in large-scale power outages due to natural hazards or cyberattacks.
Energy & Green Tech
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Engineers develop magnetic tunnel junction–based device to make AI more energy efficient
Engineering researchers at the University of Minnesota Twin Cities have demonstrated a state-of-the-art hardware device that could reduce energy consumption for artificial intelligent (AI) computing applications by a factor ...
Hardware
8 hours ago
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Generative AI creates personalized storybooks for the future of child language learning
Researchers have created an innovative system for generating personalized storybooks. This system utilizes generative artificial intelligence and home IoT technology to assist children in language learning. The findings are ...
Consumer & Gadgets
4 hours ago
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A deep dive into polyimides for high-frequency wireless telecommunications
As 5G technologies continue to evolve, scientists and engineers are already exploring new ways to turn things up a notch for 6G. One of the biggest challenges to address in both 5G and 6G is the many detrimental effects that ...
Engineering
4 hours ago
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Robot Spot configured to find and stun weeds using a blowtorch
A team of computer scientists and roboticists with members from Texas A&M University in the U.S., and the Mohamed Bin Zayed University of Artificial Intelligence in Abu Dhabi, working with a colleague from Boston Dynamics, ...
Study explores win–win potential of grass-powered energy production
Strategically planting perennial grass throughout corn and soybean fields helps address the unintended environmental consequences of growing the dominant row crops, including soil erosion, fertilizer runoff and greenhouse ...
Energy & Green Tech
5 hours ago
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Magnetic fields help understand light particle splitting for boosting solar cell efficiency
Scientists are closer to giving the next generation of solar cells a powerful boost by integrating a process that could make the technology more efficient by breaking particles of light—photons—into small chunks.
Energy & Green Tech
9 hours ago
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Novel algorithm for discovering anomalies in data outperforms current software
An algorithm developed by Washington State University researchers can better find data anomalies than current anomaly-detection software, including in streaming data.
Computer Sciences
5 hours ago
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Deep learning models can be trained with limited data: New method could reduce errors in computational imaging
Deep learning models, such as those used in medical imaging to help detect disease or abnormalities, must be trained with a lot of data. However, often there isn't enough data available to train these models, or the data ...
Machine learning & AI
6 hours ago
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Apple agrees to abide by White House AI safeguards
The White House on Friday said that Apple has joined more than a dozen tech firms committed to following safeguards intended to curb the risks of artificial intelligence.
Business
8 hours ago
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Gaming sector recovery on flamboyant display at ChinaJoy expo
A long-haired sorcerer wearily checked his smartphone as elves and androids bustled past at the digital entertainment expo ChinaJoy on Friday, the crowds a testament to the local gaming industry's tentative recovery after ...
Business
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How old, inefficient housing and time-of-use electricity rates are leaving some households worse off
Australia was slow to introduce minimum building standards for energy efficiency. The Nationwide House Energy Rating Scheme (NatHERS) only came into force in 2003.
Consumer & Gadgets
6 hours ago
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Electric car woes force German supplier ZF to axe jobs
German car parts manufacturer ZF said Friday it would cut a fifth to a quarter of jobs in Germany as it struggled with the switch to electric vehicles and foreign competition.
Automotive
8 hours ago
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Memristive radiofrequency switches show improved performance for mmWave applications
Radiofrequency (RF) switches are electronic components that control the routing of RF signals between different segments of circuits, for instance turning the signals on and off or redirecting them. These switches are central ...
OpenAI to challenge Google with new search functionality
OpenAI on Thursday said it was putting its artificial intelligence engine to work in a challenge to Google's market-dominating search engine.
Internet
Jul 25, 2024
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Engineers develop a recipe for zero-emissions fuel: Soda cans, seawater and caffeine
A sustainable source for clean energy may lie in old soda cans and seawater. MIT engineers have found that when the aluminum in soda cans is exposed in its pure form and mixed with seawater, the solution bubbles up and naturally ...
Energy & Green Tech
Jul 25, 2024
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Engineers develop technique that enhances thermal imaging and infrared thermography for police, medical and military use
A new method to measure the continuous spectrum of light, developed in the lab of University of Houston professor of electrical and computer engineering Jiming Bao, is set to improve thermal imaging and infrared thermography, ...
Engineering
Jul 25, 2024
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Using AI to train AI: Model collapse could be coming for LLMs, say researchers
Using AI-generated datasets to train future generations of machine learning models may pollute their output, a concept known as model collapse, according to a new paper published in Nature. The research shows that within ...
Machine learning & AI
Jul 25, 2024
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