A team of AI researchers at Apple claims that their AI system, Reference Resolution As Language Modeling (ReALM), can outperform GPT-4 on some kinds of queries. They have published a paper on the...
https://techxplore.com/news/2024-04-apple-ai-outperforms-gpt-tasks.html
Google co-founders Larry Page and Sergey Brin loved pulling pranks, so much so they began rolling outlandish ideas every April Fool's Day not long after starting their company more than a quarter...
https://techxplore.com/news/2024-03-gmail-revolutionized-email-years-people.html
Lower-income communities across the United States have long been much slower to adopt solar power than their affluent neighbors, even when local and federal agencies offer tax breaks and other fi...
https://techxplore.com/news/2024-03-factory-warehouse-rooftops-untapped-opportunity.html
Pairing cryptocurrency mining—notable for its outsize consumption of carbon-based fuel—with green hydrogen could provide the foundation for wider deployment of renewable energy, such as solar...
https://techxplore.com/news/2024-03-pairing-crypto-green-hydrogen-energy.html
Renewable energy sources are essential for transitioning towards a decarbonized energy system and making the electricity grid more environmentally sustainable. Clean energy alternatives like wind...
https://techxplore.com/news/2024-03-explores-turbine-visibility-affects-property.html
A small team of environmental scientists has found via simulations that rerouting commercial airplanes to reduce contrails would be less expensive than previously thought. In their study, publish...
https://techxplore.com/news/2024-03-rerouting-airplanes-contrails-expensive-thought.html
Over the next decade, quantum computers are expected to have a transformative impact on numerous industry sectors, as they surpass the computational capabilities of classical computers. In financ...
https://techxplore.com/news/2024-03-explore-quantum-ability-solutions-financial.html
A German-American research team led by the University of Konstanz has mapped the ownership of network infrastructures in democratic and authoritarian states worldwide to show how autocrats contro...
https://techxplore.com/news/2024-03-atlas-internet-surveillance-ownership-network.html
A study, published in One Earth, is the first to analyze the interplay of electrification and hydrogen in EU climate neutrality scenarios at greater sectoral detail. The analysis shows higher pot...
https://techxplore.com/news/2024-02-electrification-hydrogen-distinct-roles-european.html
The maker of ChatGPT on Thursday unveiled its next leap into generative artificial intelligence with a tool that instantly makes short videos in response to written commands.
https://techxplore.com/news/2024-02-openai-reveals-sora-tool-instant.html
A new analysis by MIT researchers shows the places in the U.S. where jobs are most linked to fossil fuels. The research could help policymakers better identify and support areas affected over tim...
https://techxplore.com/news/2024-02-county-energy-transition-effects-jobs.html
Window to the soul? Maybe, but the eyes are also a flashing neon sign for a new artificial intelligence-based system that can read them to predict what you'll do next.
https://techxplore.com/news/2024-02-algorithm-crunches-eye-movement-screen.html
In the quest to achieve a net-neutral climate impact, many companies seek to buy additional power from clean energy sources in an attempt to eliminate the emissions otherwise generated by operati...
https://techxplore.com/news/2024-01-power-strategies-emissions.html
Like many of us, you might find yourself nodding to a familiar digital doomsday chorus that vibrates through offices and coffee shops alike: AI will take my job!
https://techxplore.com/news/2024-01-rethinking-ai-impact-reveals-economic.html
Researchers at the Center for Cognitive Science at TU Darmstadt and hessian.AI have investigated the properties of behavioral economic theories automatically learned by AI.
https://techxplore.com/news/2024-01-dataset-bias-machine-theories-economic.html
A trio of economists and financial analysts, two from Yale University and the other the University of Chicago, has conducted a case study of a nationwide cryptocurrency experiment to better under...
https://techxplore.com/news/2023-12-case-cryptocurrency-transparency-privacy.html
YouTube tends to recommend videos that are similar to what people have already watched. New research has found that those recommendations can lead users down a rabbit hole of extremist political ...
https://techxplore.com/news/2023-12-youtube-video-extremist-content-right-leaning.html
Researchers at the University of Sydney have discovered new structural relationships in complex networks, such as X (formerly Twitter) and political blogs, that could help explain the digital flo...
https://techxplore.com/news/2023-12-hidden-networks-twitter.html
Bitcoin mining is often perceived as environmentally damaging because it uses huge amounts of electricity to power its intensive computing needs, but a new study demonstrates how wind and solar p...
https://techxplore.com/news/2023-11-solar-profit-bitcoin.html
Can artificial intelligence tools help predict stock price movement and volatility? Two South Dakota State University researchers believe so. Kaiqun Fu, assistant professor in SDSU's Department o...
https://techxplore.com/news/2023-11-ai-powered-stock-trends.html
Blockchain, a disruptive technology of our time, holds the potential to change our lives for the better. The insurance sector is a prime illustration.
https://techxplore.com/news/2023-11-blockchain-game-changer-industry-people.html
The U.S. is likely to see consistent job growth from the transition to net zero, but the gains will be unevenly distributed, shows a new analysis. The analysis, conducted by Imperial College Lond...
https://techxplore.com/news/2023-11-america-low-carbon-transition-employment-opportunities.html
Researchers report that 53% of European freestanding homes could have supplied all their own energy needs in 2020 using only local rooftop solar radiation, and this technical feasibility could in...
https://techxplore.com/news/2023-11-million-european-households-abandon-electrical.html
The world may have crossed a "tipping point" that will inevitably make solar power our main source of energy, new research suggests.
As much as 20% of regional power needs along the Atlantic coast could be served by offshore wind farms by 2050, according to researchers with the U.S. Department of Energy's National Renewable En...
https://techxplore.com/news/2023-10-analysis-drivers-offshore.html
As we plunge head-on into the game-changing dynamic of general artificial intelligence, observers are weighing in on just how huge an impact it will have on global societies. Will it drive explos...
https://techxplore.com/news/2023-10-explosive-growth-ai.html
As renewable energy sources like wind and solar ramp up, they can be used to sustainably generate hydrogen fuel. But implementing such a strategy on a large scale requires land and water dedicate...
https://techxplore.com/news/2023-09-sustainability-future-hydrogen-economy.html
Government legislation to flag and moderate dangerous content on social media can be effective in reducing harm, even on fast-paced platforms such as X (formerly Twitter) new research shows.
https://techxplore.com/news/2023-08-effectively-curb-social-media-dangers.html
Researchers have found that robots can have a 'U-shaped' effect on profits: causing profit margins to fall at first, before eventually rising again.
https://techxplore.com/news/2023-08-robots-company-profits-fallat.html
China has set itself the goal of reaching its peak of carbon dioxide emissions in 2030 and thereafter to reduce emissions to reach carbon neutrality by 2060. To achieve this, it needs to increase...
https://techxplore.com/news/2023-07-outlines-optimal-strategy-energy-transition.html