Scientists at the U.S. Army's corporate research laboratory are developing a new algorithm that could improve image and audio identifica...
Clearing up the 'dark side' of artificial leaves
While artificial leaves hold promise as a way to take carbon dioxide—a potent greenhouse gas—out of the atmosphere, there is a "dark si...
'Crowdworking' provides the humans who train artificial intelligence
Eager to make extra money on the side, Washington, D.C., resident Paula Alves Silva turned to a gig emblematic of the digital age: She recor...
'Crowdworking' provides the humans who train artificial intelligence
Eager to make extra money on the side, Washington, D.C., resident Paula Alves Silva turned to a gig emblematic of the digital age: She recor...
'Tech capitalism at its finest': JPMorgan picks AI over humans to write ads
JPMorgan Chase, the largest U.S. bank, says New York-based Persado's "artificial intelligence message machine" wrote ads that ...
Third step boosts solar cell performance
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Teaching AI to overcome human bias
Are you smarter than a machine learning model? Let's find out. Choose the answer that contradicts the following premise: from News on ...
Algorithms are everywhere, but what will it take for us to trust them?
The role of algorithms in our lives is growing rapidly, from simply suggesting online search results or content in our social media feed, to...
Australia should learn from global hydrogen focus, report says
Countries around the world are now making rapid advances in hydrogen energy technologies and strategy—and Australia has much to learn from t...
Sumitomo focuses on power-generating device installed in tire
Tires that recover energy as they roll made numerous headlines this week as tech watchers explored Sumitomo's concept. from Hi-Tech In...
Sumitomo focuses on power-generating device installed in tire
Tires that recover energy as they roll made numerous headlines this week as tech watchers explored Sumitomo's concept. from Energy ...
Contact lens: You blink and you zoom in
Researchers are in the news this week because of their soft biomimetic lens. Blink twice and you get yourself a closer look at things. Activ...
French 'flyboard' daredevil to make new Channel bid
A Frenchman who has captured the country's imagination with his jet-powered "flyboard" will make a new bid to cross the Englis...
Rocket fuel and 3-D printing
James Cook University scientists in Australia are using 3-D printing to create fuels for rockets, and using tailor-made rocket motors they...
Investing in energy storage for solar, wind power could greatly reduce greenhouse gas emissions
Drive through nearly any corner of America long enough and giant solar farms or rows of wind turbines come into view, all with the goal of i...
Machine learning predicts blackouts caused by storms
Thunderstorms are common all over the world in summer. As well as spoiling afternoons in the park, lightning, rain and strong winds can dama...
Turing test for androids will judge how lifelike humanoid robots can be
Alan Turing was recently announced as the face of the new £50 note for his code breaking contributions in World War II and laying the founda...
Highly efficient solar cells thanks to solid foundation
The sun is an inexhaustible and sustainable source of energy. Hence, photovoltaics is gaining importance in German energy production. Among ...
Highly efficient solar cells thanks to solid foundation
The sun is an inexhaustible and sustainable source of energy. Hence, photovoltaics is gaining importance in German energy production. Among ...
Leaner, cleaner diesel engines
Diesel engines are widely used in transport the world over. Regulatory and legal efforts are afoot to reduce their use in some countries bec...
Getting AI ethics wrong could 'annihilate technical progress'
An intelligent water gun that uses facial recognition to identify its targets is helping to highlight some of the emerging human rights issu...
Google builds gesture controls into new Pixel phone
Google on Monday revealed that it is building gesture controls and face recognition into a next-generation Pixel smartphone as it looks to f...
Researchers develop technology to harness energy from mixing of freshwater and seawater
Salt is power. It might sound like alchemy, but the energy in places where salty ocean water and freshwater mingle could provide a massive s...
Solar panels cast shade on agriculture—in a good way
Imagine you are a farmer struggling to keep up with production demands because of the increasingly stressful climate. Or perhaps you are a p...
H2 Power, hydrogen fuel startup, licenses new formula from Army Research Lab
The U.S. Army announced that it signed a patent license agreement with a Chicago-based hydrogen fuel company that hopes to disrupt transport...
AI-powered tool predicts cell behaviors during disease and treatment
Large-scale atlases of organs in a healthy state are soon going to be available, in particular, the Human Cell Atlas. This is a significant ...
'Deforming' solar cells could be clue to improved efficiency
Solar cells and light sensing technologies could be made more efficient by taking advantage of an unusual property due to deformations and d...
Researchers test ocean robots to make subsea cable surveys faster and cheaper
In 2016, when an oil tanker off the British mainland came upon a patch of stormy weather near the Channel Islands, it dropped anchor to wait...
Using artificial intelligence to fill in gaps in ancient texts
Enrique Jiménez makes use of artificial intelligence to fill in the many tantalizing gaps in the surviving texts written on clay tablets by ...
Researchers test ocean robots to make subsea cable surveys faster and cheaper
In 2016, when an oil tanker off the British mainland came upon a patch of stormy weather near the Channel Islands, it dropped anchor to wait...
AI researcher offers insight on promise, pitfalls of machine learning
These days, the latest developments in artificial intelligence (AI) research always get plenty of attention, but an AI researcher at the U.S...
How can you reliably spot a fake smile? Ask a computer
Real and fake smiles can be tricky to tell apart, but researchers at the University of Bradford have now developed computer software that ca...
How to make electrical muscle stimulation feel natural to virtual reality users
If there's one familiar sound whenever a volunteer tries out an interactive device that uses electrical muscle stimulation, it is probab...
Bionic vision system works with augmented reality glasses
A company focused on a bionic vision system sees hope for improvements in patients by means of a wireless sub-retinal implant together with ...
Firefox Reality browser plus Oculus Quest are prom king and queen
Grandma, is it true people in 2019 had to browse the web in 2-D? Mozilla has this time raised web browsing to another level with its virtual...
Firefox Reality browser plus Oculus Quest are prom king and queen
Grandma, is it true people in 2019 had to browse the web in 2-D? Mozilla has this time raised web browsing to another level with its virtual...
Yellow is not the new black: Discovery paves way for new generation of solar cells
A study led by KU Leuven for the first time explains how a promising type of perovskites—man-made crystals that can convert sunlight into el...
Drones will fly for days with new photovoltaic engine
UC Berkeley researchers just broke another record in photovoltaic efficiency, an achievement that could lead to an ultralight engine that ca...
Five 3-D printing myths
The first conviction for 3-D printing a firearm was recently reported in London, not long after 3-D printed masks were used to trick face re...
Expert in sustainable design: How to keep buildings cool without air conditioning
The warmer it gets, the more people crank up the air conditioning (AC). In fact, AC is booming in nations across the world: it's predict...
Solar energy becomes biofuel without solar cells
Soon we will be able to replace fossil fuels with a carbon-neutral product created from solar energy, carbon dioxide and water. Researchers ...
Researchers develop a method to identify computer-generated text
In a world of Deep Fakes and far too human natural language AI, researchers at the Harvard John A. Paulson School of Engineering and Applied...
Light: A possible solution for a sustainable AI
We are witnessing the accelerated adoption of artificial intelligence (AI), which has the potential to translate into a variety of societal ...
Light: A possible solution for a sustainable AI
We are witnessing the accelerated adoption of artificial intelligence (AI), which has the potential to translate into a variety of societal ...
Solar cell manufacturer's 'flexible' approach brings renewable energy to unprecedented places
It's 2019, and the world continues its rapid transformation. The physical Earth itself is changing in a time defined by environmental di...
Solar cell manufacturer's 'flexible' approach brings renewable energy to unprecedented places
It's 2019, and the world continues its rapid transformation. The physical Earth itself is changing in a time defined by environmental di...
Crowdfunding an undershirt device for sweltering suits
Sony has come up with a wearable air conditioner. It's called the Reon Pocket. It is a tiny AC unit that fits right inside the shirt. Th...
High-performance flow batteries offer path to grid-level renewable energy storage
A low-cost, high-performance battery chemistry developed by University of Colorado Boulder researchers could one day lead to scalable grid-l...
Generic mobile phone chargers escalate risk of burn, electrocution
Electric currents generated by mobile phone chargers, particularly from lower-cost generic manufacturers, are causing serious injuries. Gene...
New AI tool identifies cancer outcomes using radiology reports
Scientists at Dana-Farber Cancer Institute have demonstrated that an artificial intelligence tool can perform as well as human reviewers—and...
Eliminating bias in AI
In human beings, intelligence is no inoculation against bias and bigotry. The same holds true for computers. Intelligent machines learn abou...
Wolfenstein: Youngblood Review
Wolfenstein: Youngblood is an anomaly. A co-op focused shooter with players taking control of series protagonist B.J. Blazkowicz’s twin daug...
Samsung to launch foldable smartphone in September
South Korean electronics giant Samsung announced Thursday it will release its cutting-edge foldable smartphone in September, despite a trade...
Artificial throat could someday help mute people 'speak'
Most people take speech for granted, but it's actually a complex process that involves both motions of the mouth and vibrations of folde...
Petrobras to privatize fuel unit in $2.3 billion share sale
Brazil's state-owned oil giant Petrobras on Wednesday approved the sale of $2.3 billion worth of shares in its fuel distributor BR, as i...
France to try again with solar road plan
French local authorities said Wednesday that a high-profile "solar highway" experiment in Normandy had failed, but vowed to try ag...
Developing technologies that run on light
The future of faster, more efficient information processing may come down to light rather than electricity. Mark Lawrence, a postdoctoral sc...
What do dragonflies teach us about missile defense?
Be grateful you're not on a dragonfly's diet. You might be a fruit fly or maybe a mosquito, but it really wouldn't matter the mo...
What do dragonflies teach us about missile defense?
Be grateful you're not on a dragonfly's diet. You might be a fruit fly or maybe a mosquito, but it really wouldn't matter the mo...
A nanodrone able to detect toxic gases in emergencies
Detecting dangerous gases in collapsed buildings due earthquakes or explosions and locating victims in hard-to-access places are among use s...
How do we design buildings that enable occupants to thrive?
Americans spend 87 percent of their time indoors, according to the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency. from Consumer Electronics News - ...
Marvel Ultimate Alliance 3: The Black Order
“I don’t see any other doors,” says Iron Fist, as we come up against one of the ninja clan The Hand’s nefarious traps. “We’ll have to solve ...
Water solutions without a grain of salt
Monash University researchers have developed technology that can deliver clean water to thousands of communities worldwide. This solar steam...
Stretch-sensing glove captures interactive hand poses accurately
Capturing interactive hand poses in real time and with realistic results is a well-examined problem in computing, particularly human-centere...
Anonymizing personal data 'not enough to protect privacy,' shows new study
With the first large fines for breaching EU General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) regulations upon us, and the UK government about to re...
Renewable and nonrenewable energy in Myanmar's economic growth
The Republic of the Union of Myanmar is located in the western part of the Indochinese Peninsula and has a number of peculiar economic featu...
How cities could use social media to help create mood-boosting public spaces
Intrigued by the idea of harnessing the power of Twitter to find out how Edmonton's green spaces, playgrounds or open wi-fi affect menta...
CERN facility heat will warm households in neighboring Ferney-Voltaire
Can fundamental physics keep you warm in winter? Using neurons, maybe? Think bigger! Like some industrial sites, scientific facilities can b...
Modernizing New York's energy system
Any reasonably objective observer of the energy business can see the desperate need for change in our energy system. In the past week or so,...
Machine learning better predicts bleeding risk during coronary procedures
Machine learning techniques can better predict bleeding risk for patients undergoing percutaneous coronary intervention (PCI) than tradition...
Researchers develop MEMS accelerometer with higher sensitivity and improved noise reduction
A significant increase in the demand of accelerometers is expected as the market for consumer electronics, such as smartphones, and social i...
Mugshots evoke mood of gallery, grapes and goblets
Call them crazy but there is a cross section of human life who don't want to be turning up in social chat groups looking like cuties wit...
Electronic eye: Technology for breakdowns prevention
Detecting deformations and the wear-out rate of underground water mains is one of the functions of the measuring optical device created by t...
French inventor to hover across English Channel on 'flyboard'
A French inventor aims to soar across the English Channel this week on a jet-powered "flyboard", despite authorities warning the s...
Is Instagram's removal of its 'like' counter a turning point in social media?
Instagram's recent decision to remove its "like" counter from its platform in select geographic regions is an interesting, per...
A convolutional network to align and predict emotion annotations
Machine learning models that can recognize and predict human emotions have become increasingly popular over the past few years. In order for...
Baby tech: Pampers to deliver a big diaper change
In some home soon, a new parent will enjoy a smartphone glance as the first-time mom reads messages like Claire's diaper is dry. Bottle ...
E-scooters now seem less likely to run people off sidewalks
What a difference a year can make. It's mid-morning in downtown Los Angeles, and there are e-scooters on every major street. from Cons...
Kitchen disruption: better food through artificial intelligence
Looking for that perfect recipe, or a new flavor combination that delights the senses? from News on Artificial Intelligence and Machine Le...
Brazil's Petrobras refuses to refuel Iran ships due to US sanctions
US-listed Brazilian state oil giant Petrobras said Friday it will not refuel two Iranian vessels that have been stuck for weeks at a Brazili...
This deep neural network fights deepfakes
Seeing was believing until technology reared its mighty head and gave us powerful and inexpensive photo-editing tools. Now, realistic videos...
Deepfake videos pose a threat, but 'dumbfakes' may be worse
Sophisticated phony videos called deepfakes have attracted attention as a possible threat to election integrity. But a bigger problem for th...
Kenya to launch Africa's biggest wind farm
Kenya will on Friday inaugurate Africa's biggest wind power plant, a mammoth project in a gusty stretch of remote wilderness that now pr...
Flexible user interface distribution for ubiquitous multi-device interaction
KAIST researchers have developed mobile software platform technology that allows a mobile application (app) to be executed simultaneously an...
A technique to improve machine learning inspired by the behavior of human infants
From their first years of life, human beings have the innate ability to learn continuously and build mental models of the world, simply by o...
A technique to improve machine learning inspired by the behavior of human infants
From their first years of life, human beings have the innate ability to learn continuously and build mental models of the world, simply by o...
Free dataset archive helps researchers quickly find a needle in a haystack
Let's say you're doing research that requires millions of geotagged tweets. Or perhaps you're a journalist who wants to map murd...
AI radar system that can spot miniature drones 3 kilometers away
DGIST announced on Tuesday, July 16 that Senior Researcher Dae-gun Oh's team in the Collaborative Robots Research Center developed a rad...
Better design could make mobile devices easier for seniors to use
A loud "bing" sounded as we drove onto the highway access ramp. I didn't see a message on our car's screen. Was it my phon...
EU fines chipmaker Qualcomm for 'predatory pricing'
In yet another European Union move against a U.S. tech giant, the bloc's antitrust chief on Thursday fined chipmaker Qualcomm $271 milli...
Poll finds women more worried about losing jobs to trade and offshoring than artificial intelligence
As many as 160 million women around the world could lose their jobs over the next decade because of the impact of automation, and a recent s...
Taller, faster, better, stronger: Wind towers are only getting bigger
Former Australian Greens leader Bob Brown made headlines this week after he objected to a proposed wind farm on Tasmania's Robbins Islan...
Apple, Google continue inclusive push with new emoji
Apple and Google are rolling out dozens of new emoji that include cute critters, of course, but also expand the number of images of human di...
Review evaluates how AI could boost the success of clinical trials
In a review publishing July 17 in the journal Trends in Pharmacological Sciences, researchers examined how artificial intelligence (AI) coul...
Harvesting energy from the human knee
Imagine powering your devices by walking. With technology recently developed by a group of researchers at the Chinese University of Hong Kon...
DistME: A fast and elastic distributed matrix computation engine using GPUs
DGIST announced on July 4 that Professor Min-Soo Kim's team in the Department of Information and Communication Engineering developed the...
A method to reduce the number of neurons in recurrent neural networks
A team of researchers at Queen's University, in Canada, have recently proposed a new method to downsize random recurrent neural networks...
Twitter 'fingerprint' helps decode how individuals respond to crises
Often in the case of a disaster, there are too few resources available to the community. A new algorithm analyzes individuals' tweets to...
Vodafone Smart V10
The Vodafone Smart V10 is the latest affordable blower from network giant Vodafone. It may not have the wow factor of the Galaxy S10 Plus , ...
Efficient hydrogen compression for large scale mobility applications
Hydrogen mobility contributes to the energy transition by reducing greenhouse gas emissions. Thanks to the long range and the short refuelin...
First programmable memristor computer aims to bring AI processing down from the cloud
The first programmable memristor computer—not just a memristor array operated through an external computer—has been developed at the Univers...
Inspired by water lilies: A hierarchical design for solar evaporation of high salinity brine
Interfacial solar vapor generation has great potential for desalination and wastewater treatment with high energy conversion efficacy. High ...
Inspired by water lilies: A hierarchical design for solar evaporation of high salinity brine
Interfacial solar vapor generation has great potential for desalination and wastewater treatment with high energy conversion efficacy. High ...
Technology beating romanticism at Tour de France
With all the technology stacked against them, the six breakaway riders at the Tour de France had no hope of making it to the finish without ...
An AI technology to reveal the characteristics of animal behavior
Recording the movements of people and animals (including birds and insects) has become very easy because of the development of small and ine...
Using geothermal to cool your home
Geothermal energy can be used to sustainably keep a house cool in notoriously hot parts of the world, thanks to the design of a new cooling ...
DeepEyedentification: identifying people based on micro eye movements
Past cognitive psychology research suggests that eye movements can differ substantially from one individual to another. Interestingly, these...
Researchers' deep learning algorithm solves Rubik's Cube faster than any human
Since its invention by a Hungarian architect in 1974, the Rubik's Cube has furrowed the brows of many who have tried to solve it, but th...
Researchers create innovative model for supercritical carbon dioxide power generation
Southwest Research Institute and The University of Texas at San Antonio are collaborating to acquire data for a computational model for supe...
Curbing indoor air pollution in India
Around the world, more than 3 billion people—nearly half the world's population—cook their food using solid fuels like firewood and char...
Curbing indoor air pollution in India
Around the world, more than 3 billion people—nearly half the world's population—cook their food using solid fuels like firewood and char...
High-performance sodium ion batteries using copper sulfide
Researchers presented a new strategy for extending sodium ion batteries' cyclability using copper sulfide as the electrode material. Thi...
Smart textiles boost connectivity between wearable sensors by 1,000 times
Over the past decade, a major trend in electronics has been the development of sensors, displays and smart devices which are seamlessly inte...
How do lithium-ion batteries work?
The smartphone era is only just over a decade old, but the pocket-sized computers at the heart of that societal transformation are only real...
SentiArt: a sentiment analysis tool for profiling characters from world literature texts
Arthur Jacobs, a professor and researcher at Freie Universität Berlin, has recently developed SentiArt, a new machine learning technique to ...
Mobile home robots may still get TLC from Amazon
Psst. The whispers flared up and then went away. In April last year Todd Bishop in GeekWire joined the ever-louder whisperfest coming from t...
Motor, other components, in wheels may shape future of car industry
A Tel Aviv-based startup has emerged from stealth and they are spelling out their concept for motors in wheels for engines in electric cars....
Identifying perceived emotions from people's walking style
A team of researchers at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and the University of Maryland at College Park has recently develop...
Timeout declared for Walkie-Talkie on Apple Watch
Pre-iEra, the idea of a Dick Tracy hiding in the corners of a skyscraper, talking to his wrist captured imaginations of children and adults ...
At Last, AI beats professionals in six-player poker
An artificial intelligence program developed by Carnegie Mellon University in collaboration with Facebook AI has defeated leading profession...
Fossil fuels increasingly offer a poor return on energy investment
An evaluation of the global energy return on investment for fossil fuels and renewable sources reveals a much more level playing field than ...
Raspberry Pi 4: Blogger finds charger roadblock
Wait, what. Some users have found charging problems with their newly purchased Raspberry Pi 4, as their existing USB-C cables would not char...
20 overlooked benefits of distributed solar energy
A study released today provides the most complete list yet of the advantages of solar energy—from carbon sequestration to improvements for p...
Capturing heat wasted in solar panels for use in distilling clean drinking water
A team of researchers at King Abdullah University of Science and Technology has developed a way to use waste heat from solar panels to disti...
Using building materials to monitor for high enriched uranium
A new paper details how small samples of ubiquitous building materials, such as tile or brick, can be used to test whether a facility has ev...
Using building materials to monitor for high enriched uranium
A new paper details how small samples of ubiquitous building materials, such as tile or brick, can be used to test whether a facility has ev...
A backpack that generates electricity using side-to-side movement from walking
A pair of researchers with the Mechanical and Materials Engineering and Ingenuity Labs at Queen's University has designed a backpack tha...
Can't take the heat? 'Cool walls' can reduce energy costs, pollution
If these walls could talk, they might tell you that cutting energy costs and pollution may be as easy as giving them a fresh coat of lighter...
Study shows pollution dramatically reducing solar power generation in China
An international team of researchers has found that air pollution in China is dramatically reducing the amount of power that is generated by...
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