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Consumer & Gadgets
TVs get smarter as makers cater to AI lifestyles
Dazzling televisions that routinely star at the Consumer Electronics Show opening here Tuesday are getting ever smarter with an eye toward being at the heart of AI-centered lifestyles.
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Automotive
Flying taxis are on the horizon as aviation soars into a new frontier
When he was still a boy making long, tedious trips between his school and his woodsy home in the mountains during the 1980s, JoeBen Bevirt began fantasizing about flying cars that could whisk him to his destination in a matter ...
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Ramping up the scale of climate and energy technology: Experts recommend technical risk assessment strategies
One of the biggest challenges in implementing energy and climate technologies is actually scaling them up to deploy. While scale-up has largely been the domain of industrial R&D teams, advances in modeling and experimental ...
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Smart food drying techniques with AI enhance product quality and efficiency
Food drying is a common process for preserving many types of food, including fruits and meat; however, drying can alter the food's quality and nutritional value. In recent years, researchers have developed precision techniques ...
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Quadrotors support enhanced locomotion in a new bipedal robot
Humans and animals are the key inspiration for many robotic systems developed to date, as they possess body structures that innately support efficient locomotion. While many bipedal (i.e., two-legged) robots are humanoids, ...
Security
Weaponized disinformation can pose serious threat to urban transit systems
As every straphanger knows, public transit systems are fantastic—except when they aren't. A single station closure can ruin a commuter's morning, and even minor delays or disruptions can snowball into major problems as ...
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Engineering
Electrokinetic rare earth mining technique gets upscaled to industrial levels
A team of metallurgists and geochemists at Guangzhou Institute of Geochemistry, working with a mechanical engineer from the Chinese Academy of Sciences, has improved their previous electrokinetic mining technique by scaling ...
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Machine learning & AI
Open-source framework goes beyond language to enhance multimodal AI training capabilities
EPFL researchers have developed 4M, a next-generation, open-sourced framework for training versatile and scalable multimodal foundation models that go beyond language.
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Electronics & Semiconductors
Engineers create photonic switch that overcomes routing size–speed tradeoffs
Every second, terabytes of data—the equivalent of downloading thousands upon thousands of movies at once—travel around the world as light in fiber-optic cables, like so many cars packed onto a super-fast highway. When ...
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Energy & Green Tech
New study opens the door for waste-derived organic redox flow batteries
The batteries used in our phones, devices and even cars rely on metals like lithium and cobalt, sourced through intensive and invasive mining. As more products begin to depend on battery-based energy storage systems, shifting ...
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Internet
Beyond 5G: New optical modulator can operate at 10 times the speed of current devices
Kyushu University researchers have successfully developed an ultra-high-speed optical modulator that can operate at more than 10 times the speed of current devices. This modulator was made thanks to a new method the team ...
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Hardware
Nvidia founder Jensen Huang unveils next generation of AI and gaming chips at CES 2025
In a packed Las Vegas arena, Nvidia founder Jensen Huang stood on stage and marveled over the crisp real-time computer graphics displayed on the screen behind him. He watched as a dark-haired woman walked through ornate gilded ...
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Engineering
Optimized sensor design reduces drag in self-driving vehicles
Thanks to the rapid progress of information technology and artificial intelligence, autonomous vehicles (AVs) have been taking off. In fact, AV technology is now advanced enough that the vehicles are being used for logistics ...
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Engineering
Silk-based nanofiltration membrane can purify water 10 times faster than commercial methods
A research team led by Professor Chuyang Tang, Chair Professor from the Department of Civil Engineering, Faculty of Engineering at the University of Hong Kong (HKU), has developed a novel nanofiltration membrane using natural ...
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Engineering
Experimental membrane captures more than 99% of aluminum ions from waste
Used in everything from soda cans and foil wrap to circuit boards and rocket boosters, aluminum is the second-most-produced metal in the world after steel. By the end of this decade, demand is projected to drive up aluminum ...
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Engineering
Method can detect harmful salts forming in nuclear waste melters
A new way to identify salts in nuclear waste melters could help improve clean-up technology, including at the Hanford Site, one of the largest, most complex nuclear waste clean-up sites in the world.
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Consumer & Gadgets
Homes talk and tables walk at AI dominated CES
Home appliances that do chores, cars that know your favorite cafe, and robot pets aiming to please are among artficial intelligence-infused offerings at the Consumer Electronics Show opening Tuesday.
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