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Galaxy Fold review: Should you pay $2,000 for Samsung's delayed folding phone tablet?
Samsung's new $1,980 Galaxy Fold has been making waves over the last two weeks, not necessarily for all the right reasons. from Consum...
Bio-based chemicals could reduce fossil fuel use
Petrochemicals, the oil- and gas-derived compounds that serve as the molecular backbones for much of modern commerce, commanded a $539.3 bil...
Record solar hydrogen production with concentrated sunlight
Hydrogen will play a key role in reducing our dependence on fossil fuels. It can be sustainably produced by using solar energy to split wate...
Next-gen software aims to lift personal computer into Aware state
What do you think about if someone asks you to reel off examples of smart tech? You probably list smartphones, tablets, TVs, cars, speakers,...
Ethane storage seen as key to revitalization of Appalachia
Plans are underway in Appalachia to create two underground facilities to store ethane, a byproduct of natural gas drilling seen as integral ...
Harnessing sunlight to pull hydrogen from wastewater
Hydrogen is a critical component in the manufacture of thousands of common products from plastic to fertilizers, but producing pure hydrogen...
Researchers develop secure method for sending sensitive personal data from wearable tech
Smart watches. Pacemakers. Internet-connected glasses. These are devices designed to make life easier. And yet, all this wearable technology...
PaintBot: A deep learning student that trains then mimics old masters
Artificial intelligence has been showing us many ish tricks as apers of human-created art, and now a team of researchers have impressed AI w...
Bach and Adele: Knock yourselves out on MuseNet
OpenAI is introducing a musical MuseNet, the music-generating AI that was in the news earlier this week. Some AI watchers were calling the m...
A personality test for ads: Machine learning algorithms could personalize advertisements for individual consumers
It's no surprise that images used for advertising on television and online play a powerful role in triggering emotions and shaping impre...
Little shopping cart speedster in Aisle 7 inspires Ford braking solution
For a child's mom, supermarkets are where you fulfill your list of candles, berries, bologna and soap. For the child, supermarkets, like...
Earth Defense Force: Iron Rain Review
I’m so glad I share Japan’s obsession with giant monsters. There’s nothing better than watching otherworldly kaiju tear through everything i...
Caffeine gives solar cells an energy boost
Scientists from the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) and Solargiga Energy in China have discovered that caffeine can help make a...
Days Gone Review
At its best, Days Gone is one of the most riveting and bombastic zombie shooters I’ve ever played. Fighting and fleeing hundreds – and I mea...
Using a printed adversarial patch to fool an AI system
A trio of researchers at the University of KU Leuven in Belgium has found that it is possible to confuse an AI system by printing a certain ...
Takes a licking and keeps on storing
Researchers at Washington University in St. Louis made an energy storage device that can withstand a hammer striking it more than 40 times. ...
Improving security as artificial intelligence moves to smartphones
Smartphones, security cameras, and speakers are just a few of the devices that will soon be running more artificial intelligence software to...
Google-linked firm wins US approval for drone deliveries
Wing Aviation, a firm owned by Google parent Alphabet, on Tuesday became the first drone operator to be certified as an airline by US author...
Tesla CEO plans to hand the car keys to robots next year
Tesla CEO Elon Musk expects to start converting the company's electric cars into fully self-driving vehicles next year as part of an aud...
Tesla eyes 'robotaxis' by 2020 with new self-driving technology (Update)
Tesla said Monday it is expecting to deploy self-driving "robotaxis" by 2020 as it unveiled its upgraded technology for driverless...
An ultra-stretchable triboelectric strip sensor (TSS) to control objects in 3-D space
Nanogenerators, technological tools that can convert mechanical or thermal energy into electricity, come in three key designs: piezoelectric...
Adding guanidinium thiocyanate to mixed tin-lead perovskites to improve solar cell efficiency
A team of researchers affiliated with several institutions in the U.S. has found a way to improve the efficiency of perovskite-based solar c...
ExAG: An image-guessing game to evaluate the helpfulness of machine explanations
In recent years, researchers have been trying to make artificial intelligence (AI) more transparent by developing algorithms that can explai...
Inequalities in the UK can be detected using deep learning image analysis
Social, economic, environmental and health inequalities within cities can be detected using street imagery. The findings, from scientists at...
A magnetic personality, maybe not. But magnets can help AI get closer to the efficiency of the human brain
Computers and artificial intelligence continue to usher in major changes in the way people shop. It is relatively easy to train a robot'...
A neurorobotics approach for building robots with communication skills
Researchers at the Okinawa Institute of Science and Technology have recently proposed a neurorobotics approach that could aid the developmen...
Explainer: What is quantum machine learning and how can it help us?
Artificial intelligence refers, among other things, to machines' capacity to demonstrate some degree of what humans consider "intel...
Adding human touch to unchatty chatbots may lead to bigger letdown
Sorry, Siri, but just giving a chatbot a human name or adding humanlike features to its avatar might not be enough to win over a user if the...
Adding human touch to unchatty chatbots may lead to bigger letdown
Sorry, Siri, but just giving a chatbot a human name or adding humanlike features to its avatar might not be enough to win over a user if the...
A neural network can read scientific papers and render a plain-English summary
The work of a science writer, including this one, includes reading journal papers filled with specialized technical terminology, and figurin...
Apple may sweeten macOS 10.15 with iPad external display support
Apple watchers are talking about what one might expect to see as new features in Apple's operating systems. Guilherme Rambo, a Brazil-ba...
Why language technology can't handle Game of Thrones (yet)
Researchers from the Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam and the Dutch Royal Academy's Humanities Cluster evaluated four state-of-the-art tools...
'Induced' driving miles could overwhelm potential energy-saving benefits of self-driving
The benefits of self-driving cars will likely induce vehicle owners to drive more, and those extra miles could partially or completely offse...
Galaxy Fold first look: We go hands-on with Samsung's nearly $2,000 foldable phone
Samsung is about to fold, but don't take that the wrong way. It wants you to buy into the new Galaxy Fold that goes on sale next Friday ...
A sliding mode control scheme for nonlinear positive Markov jumping systems
Researchers at Anhui University in China have recently developed a new method to enable sliding mode control in a class of nonlinear positiv...
Giving robots a better feel for object manipulation
A new learning system developed by MIT researchers improves robots' abilities to mold materials into target shapes and make predictions ...
Vehicle-to-vehicle Volvo style to swing big in Europe
Vehicle to vehicle communication is on auto industry minds as an important technology piece determining our safe driving future. Discussions...
Here's why electric cars have plenty of grunt, oomph and torque
Australian politicians, including Prime Minister Scott Morrison, have raised the question of electric vehicles' capacity for "grunt...
Novel batteries are the first to use water-splitting technology at their core
Inside modern cell phones are billions of nanoscale switches that flip on and off, allowing the phone to function. These switches, called tr...
German students have algorithm for Game of Thrones deaths
Spoiler alert: Computer science students at the Technical University of Munich have developed an application that scours the internet for da...
A snake robot controlled by biomimetic CPGs
In recent years, a growing number of studies has been aimed at developing robots inspired by nature, particularly by certain species of anim...
U.S. energy use rises to highest level ever
Americans used more energy in 2018 than in any other year, according to the most recent energy flow charts released by Lawrence Livermore Na...
AI agent offers rationales using everyday language to explain its actions
Georgia Institute of Technology researchers, in collaboration with Cornell University and University of Kentucky, have developed an artifici...
New computer model automatically, aesthetically crops photos
Computers can now automatically crop photos to capture the most interesting part in an aesthetically pleasing manner, thanks to researchers ...
Google enables use of Android phones as a physical security key
Google has announced that it has made software updates to Chrome and Android that make it possible to use an Android phone (7+) as a physica...
Exploring open-ended evolution in web services
Just like living ecosystems, web services form a complex artificial system consisting of tags and the user-generated media associated with t...
Hands on: Oculus Rift S
Rarely do we see evolution as rapid or as radical as we’ve seen in the area of virtual reality. Oculus Rift’s consumer version launched in 2...
Enhanced robot 'vision' enables more natural interaction with humans
A wide-eyed, soft-spoken robot named Pepper motors around the Intelligent Systems Lab at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute. One of the resear...
Facebook's mapping team aims to help aid workers know where help is needed
Artificial intelligence researchers and data scientists at Facebook have created population density maps. What's so special is that they...
Samsung Galaxy A70
The Samsung Galaxy A70 might be the perfect device for buyers on a budget looking for big screened, long-lasting Android phone. Let’s be cl...
Samsung Galaxy A80
With the Galaxy S10 fresh on shelves and the Galaxy Fold about to become the first commercially available foldable phone, it might seem as...
IBM sees the value of putting AI to work in human resources
Who put the non-human into human resources? At first glance, it seems like an unpopular alliance—the use of artificial intelligence to suppo...
The ethics of emerging technologies
In today's digital age, artificial intelligence and big data are helping people navigate the world in new ways. While many researchers a...
Will Deep Press be part of Android Q? Tweet reference raises buzz
How possible is it that something called Deep Press has been added to the code for Google's next, the Android Q? Fueling the curiosity i...
A Jetsons future? Assessing the role of flying cars in sustainable mobility
In the 1960s animated sitcom The Jetsons, George Jetson commutes to work in his family-size flying car, which miraculously transforms into a...
New open-source software predicts impacts of extreme events on grids
A new, free, open-source software reliably predicts how damage from hurricanes, ice storms, earthquakes, and other extreme events will restr...
Technology makes fuel cells more powerful, more durable, less expensive
One of the most promising clean energy technologies just got even better. Researchers from the University of Delaware have developed the mos...
Good news for rooftop solar, not for home batteries
The energy produced over the lifetime of typical rooftop solar panels more than makes up for the energy it takes to make, mount and then eve...
Machine learning drives self-driving approach from Wayve
For the self-driving car skittish, what could be more of a nail-biter than imagining your autonomous car making its way down narrow city str...
Machine learning drives self-driving approach from Wayve
For the self-driving car skittish, what could be more of a nail-biter than imagining your autonomous car making its way down narrow city str...
Google drone deliveries cleared for take-off in Australia
A Google-linked firm will start delivering takeaways and other small items to Canberra residents after the company received approval from av...
Huawei P30 Review
A few years ago, £700 would have netted you the top-dog in any phone makers’ lineup but since Apple made £1000 the new norm for a flagship, ...
Renewables are a better investment than carbon capture for tackling climate change
Solar panels and wind turbines coupled with energy storage offer a better hope for tackling climate change than trying to capture carbon fro...
A hierarchical RNN-based model to predict scene graphs for images
Researchers at Shanghai University have recently developed a new approach based on recurrent neural networks (RNNs) to predict scene graphs ...
New technique cuts AI training time by more than 60 percent
North Carolina State University researchers have developed a technique that reduces training time for deep learning networks by more than 60...
Real or artificial? Tech titans declare AI ethics concerns
The biggest tech companies want you to know that they're taking special care to ensure that their use of artificial intelligence to sift...
Mystery of negative capacitance in perovskite solar cells solved
On the verge of outcompeting current thin-film solar cells, perovskite solar cells seem to embody an ideal solar cell with high efficiency a...
A short first hop for 'drone taxi' in Vienna
It was more of a small step than a giant leap, but the first public outing of a pilotless "drone taxi" in Vienna on Thursday never...
A bio-inspired approach to enhance learning in ANNs
The human brain continuously changes over time, forming new synaptic connections based on experiences and information learned over a lifetim...
Using artificial intelligence tools to identify levels of violence in movies
For many in the film industry, seeing your film landed with an NC-17 rating from the Motion Picture Association of America (MPAA) is the kis...
LearnedSketch AI system for frequency estimation improves estimates of trending search queries
If you look under the hood of the internet, you'll find lots of gears churning along that make it all possible. from News on Artificia...
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