New Zealand startup eyes global wireless electrical grid

A startup energy company in New Zealand believes it can power the world with a wireless electric transmission system that can bring power to...

New Zealand startup eyes global wireless electrical grid

A startup energy company in New Zealand believes it can power the world with a wireless electric transmission system that can bring power to...

Amazon gets US approval to fly delivery drones

Amazon on Monday said a freshly-issued Federal Aviation Administration certificate has cleared the launch pad for drone deliveries in the US...

Google finds a new way to serve ads to kids on upcoming Lenovo tablets

Google announced a new kids initiative with videos, books and apps on upcoming Lenovo tablets, but parents beware—the content will be full o...

Scientists create batteries that could make it easier to explore Mars

Electrifying research by Clemson University scientists could lead to the creation of lighter, faster-charging batteries suitable for powerin...

Scientists develop low-temperature resisting aqueous zinc-based batteries

Aqueous zinc-based batteries (ZBBs) are widely used for portable and grid-scale applications due to their high safety, low cost and high ene...

Team's flexible micro-LEDs may reshape future of wearable technology

University of Texas at Dallas researchers and their international colleagues have developed a method to create micro LEDs that can be folded...

New AI approach investigates multiple gene regulatory mechanisms

A research team from the Department of Computer Science and Engineering (CSE) at The Chinese University of Hong Kong (CUHK) has developed a ...

Forget $1,000 smartphones—here's three great ones for under $400 from Apple, Google and Samsung

The most recent top of the line smartphone release from Samsung has an opening list price of $1,300 and most reviews, mine included, could b...

Elon Musk wants YOU to build a brain-computer interface

Elon Musk isn't content with electric cars, shooting people into orbit, populating Mars and building underground tunnels to solve traffi...

Energy firm says its nuclear-waste fueled diamond batteries could last thousands of years

A cellphone power source that lasts nine years. An auto-battery pack that lasts nearly a century. A pacemaker that is powered to last 28,000...

Energy firm says its nuclear-waste fueled diamond batteries could last thousands of years

A cellphone power source that lasts nine years. An auto-battery pack that lasts nearly a century. A pacemaker that is powered to last 28,000...

Interactive tool uses AI to search transcripts and calculate the screen time of public figures

Cable TV news is a primary source of information for millions of Americans each day. The people that appear on cable TV news and the topics ...

Algorithm could quash Twitter abuse of women

Online abuse targeting women, including threats of harm or sexual violence, has proliferated across all social media platforms but QUT resea...

Japan's 'flying car' gets off ground, with a person aboard

The decades-old dream of zipping around in the sky as simply as driving on highways may be becoming less illusory. from Hi-Tech Innovation...

Amazon has a new fitness tracker and wants to get personal

Amazon, the company that made shopping from a La-Z-Boy possible, is going into the fitness-tracking business. from Consumer Electronics Ne...

If Zoom's out, what about WebEx, Google Meet or Skype? We tried them all, here's what we found

The popular Zoom video meeting app went out this week, for many on of all days, the first day of school, and people freaked out. from Cons...

Brain-inspired electronic system could vastly reduce AI's carbon footprint

Extremely energy-efficient artificial intelligence is now closer to reality after a study by UCL researchers found a way to improve the accu...

Tell Me Why Review: An engrossing narrative adventure from the studio behind Life is Strange

DONTNOD Entertainment has been breaking boundaries when it comes to representation since the original Life is Strange. It has created a rang...

How to make AI trustworthy

One of the biggest impediments to adoption of new technologies is trust in AI. from News on Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning h...

Lenovo Chromebook Duet Review

The Lenovo Chromebook Duet is an astonishingly good value device, doubling up as both a tablet and laptop when equipped with the bundled key...

A heuristic search algorithm to plan attacks in robotic football

Robots have gradually been making their way into a variety of fields and settings, including sports competitions. Robotic football, or socce...

Researchers train autonomous drones using cross-modal simulated data

To fly autonomously, drones need to understand what they perceive in the environment and make decisions based on that information. A novel m...

Renewable energy heat system to reduce industrial gas use by up to 80 percent

Australia is currently considering a range of options to stimulate post-COVID economic recovery, including weighing the relative value of in...

Sometime soon, your car will park itself in urban garages

So after the coronavirus threat has passed, you head downtown for a baseball game. from Hi-Tech Innovation News - Information Technology, ...

DJI changes name, style of its smartphone gimbal

DJI, the drone and aerial photography tools company, has taken a radical redesign to its popular line of Osmo smartphone gimbals, adding in ...

Microsoft adds transcription feature to Word

Microsoft launched a new transcription service for its online version of Word this week. Transcribe in Word allows users to record live conv...

Mafia: Definitive Edition Preview: A welcome return for the PS2 classic

I was a child when I first played the original Mafia back on PS2, and quickly grew inpatient with how slow the vehicles felt and opted for f...

Wasteland 3 Review

Wasteland 3 is Divinity Original Sin in post-apocalypse America. That’s the short version and if you know what that means and like the idea ...

What is DeFi and why is it the hottest ticket in cryptocurrencies?

One area in cryptocurrencies attracting huge attention is DeFi or decentralized finance. This refers to financial services using smart contr...

A model for autonomous navigation and obstacle avoidance in UAVs

Autonomous unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) have shown great potential for a wide range of applications, including automated package delivery...

Tool transforms world landmark photos into 4-D experiences

Using publicly available tourist photos of world landmarks such as the Trevi Fountain in Rome or Top of the Rock in New York City, Cornell r...

Scientists use reinforcement learning to train quantum algorithm

Recent advancements in quantum computing have driven the scientific community's quest to solve a certain class of complex problems for w...

Scientists use fruit peel to turn old batteries into new

Scientists led by Nanyang Technological University, Singapore (NTU Singapore) have developed a novel method of using fruit peel waste to ext...

Reducing windpower's bad vibes

Windpower has come to the fore as a major source of renewable energy, with "turbine farms" springing up across the land and across...

Sony's new PlayStation 5 video spot signals launch of new console system

Sony is kicking off its marketing blitz for the PlayStation 5 video game system. from Consumer Electronics News - Electronics News, Electr...

Fitbit's new lineup features a smartwatch that might pick up fever, stress symptoms

Fitbit unveiled a smartwatch enabled to tell you if you may be feeling stressed out or potentially running a fever as the coronavirus pandem...

Deep learning algorithm to speed up materials discovery in emerging tech industries

Solid-state inorganic materials are critical to the growth and development of electric vehicle, cellphone, laptop battery and solar energy t...

Researchers develop AI to detect fentanyl and derivatives remotely

To help keep first responders safe, University of Central Florida researchers have developed an artificial intelligence method that not only...

Researchers have a bold proposal to tackle one of the biggest barriers to more renewable energy

The phrase "too much of a good thing" may sound like a contradiction, but it encapsulates one of the key hurdles preventing the ex...

Faster, more efficient energy storage could stem from holistic study of layered materials

A team led by the Department of Energy's Oak Ridge National Laboratory developed a novel, integrated approach to track energy-transporti...

Using radio signals to monitor people at risk while maintaining privacy

A team of researchers at MIT has developed a system for monitoring the activity of people at risk remotely while preserving their privacy. T...

A 26-layer convolutional neural network for human action recognition

Deep learning algorithms, such as convolutional neural networks (CNNs), have achieved remarkable results on a variety of tasks, including th...

Analyzing and developing algorithms for time-varying data

Jules Wulms, Ph.D. student in the research group Applied Geometric Algorithms of the department of Mathematics and Computer Science, has dev...

Computers excel in chemistry class

Machine learning models can rapidly and accurately estimate key chemical parameters related to molecular reactivity. from News on Artifici...

Improving battery life for wearable electronic devices by addressing asymmetric stresses

Researchers in WMG and the Department of Physics at the University of Warwick have found that asymmetric stresses within electrodes used in ...

Detecting and responding to incidents with images

When a natural disaster occurs, on-the-ground emergency response teams act quickly to make life-saving decisions. Reducing the response time...

New technique to prevent imaging cyberthreats proposed by researchers

Researchers at Ben-Gurion University of the Negev have developed a new artificial intelligence technique that will protect medical devices f...

Swiss team claims 1st jump, free fall from solar plane

A Swiss team working to take a solar-powered plane to the edge of space says it has performed the first jump and free fall from an electric ...

California is rushing to add solar power. Did recent blackouts just shade state's green future?

They sit on oceanfront property in Southern California, a fleet of aging gas-fired power plants that not only pollute the air but also kill ...

Novel 3-D-printed device demonstrates enhanced capture of carbon dioxide emissions

The Department of Energy's Oak Ridge National Laboratory researchers have designed and additively manufactured a first-of-its-kind alumi...

Heron AI prevails over human in air combat

His motto is "Aim high, fly-fight-win." But for a top U.S. Air Force fighter pilot and weapons school graduate, aiming high—and in...

Geothermal energy from shell limestone

In 2017 a huge storage facility in the pores of a sandstone layer at a depth of between 1015 and 1045 meters below Berlin's Grunewald fo...

Poco F2 Pro

If I was to make one wish for a prospective Poco F3 Pro, it would be to step things up to 90Hz. While the Poco F2 Pro impresses in a number ...