Researchers led by Ryuhei Nakamura at the RIKEN Center for Sustainable Resource Science (CSRS) in Japan have improved on their green and sustainable method of extracting hydrogen from water by us...
https://techxplore.com/news/2024-04-custom-catalyst-longer-sustainable-green.html
A cat went missing after hiding in an Amazon return package. Then her Utah owner got a call—from hundreds of miles away—that "changed everything."
https://techxplore.com/news/2024-04-cat-amazon-package-california-miles.html
Japan's cabinet approved Friday legislation that would slap major fines on tech giants like Google or Apple if they block access to third-party smartphone apps and payment systems.
https://techxplore.com/news/2024-04-japan-levy-big-fines-app.html
Cybersecurity firm Darktrace said Friday it had accepted a $5.3-billion takeover bid from US private equity firm Thoma Bravo, which highlighted the British group's "capability in artificial intel...
https://techxplore.com/news/2024-04-cybersecurity-firm-darktrace-bn-takeover.html
The U.S. government's auto safety agency is investigating whether last year's recall of Tesla's Autopilot driving system did enough to make sure drivers pay attention to the road.
https://techxplore.com/news/2024-04-probes-tesla-autopilot-recall-drivers.html
As the old saying goes, two heads are better than one. The same is true when it comes to solar cells working in tandem. Researchers at the U.S. Department of Energy's National Renewable Energy La...
https://techxplore.com/news/2024-04-outline-path-tandem-solar-cells.html
Researchers have collaborated on the development of a tellurium-selenium composite oxide semiconductor material. Their efforts led to the successful creation of a high-performance and highly stab...
https://techxplore.com/news/2024-04-high-amorphous-p-oxide-semiconductor.html
A team of physicists and engineers at Vector Atomic, Inc., a maker of navigation and communications equipment, has developed a new kind of atomic clock that they claim is both ultra-precise and s...
https://techxplore.com/news/2024-04-scientists-atomic-clock-ultra-precise.html
Gov. Gavin Newsom said on April 25 that California continued to rapidly add the battery storage that is crucial to the transition to cleaner energy, but admitted it was still not enough to avoid ...
https://techxplore.com/news/2024-04-california-battery-storage-rapidly-blackouts.html
Reliably monitoring the amount of lithium (Li) present in rechargeable batteries, specifically in the so-called cathode active material (CAM), is key to understanding the condition of batteries f...
https://techxplore.com/news/2024-04-framework-lithium-battery-results.html
Chinese tech giant ByteDance has said it has no plans to sell TikTok after a new US law put it on a deadline to divest from the hugely popular video platform or have it banned in the United State...
https://techxplore.com/news/2024-04-bytedance-tiktok-law.html
Microsoft, the tech titan most closely associated with AI, has announced nearly $10 billion in investments in artificial intelligence abroad in recent months, the price it is willing to pay to re...
https://techxplore.com/news/2024-04-microsoft-ai-empire.html
Google's parent Alphabet on Thursday trounced revenue and profit expectations for the first quarter of this year, causing shares to leap more than 12 percent.
https://techxplore.com/news/2024-04-google-parent-alphabet-q1-profits.html
More than 100 facilities designed to remove carbon dioxide (CO2) from the atmosphere are in various stages of development around the world. In the United States, the first direct air capture (DAC...
https://techxplore.com/news/2024-04-team-carbon-capture-global.html
Engineers at Georgia Tech have designed a process that converts carbon dioxide removed from the air into useful raw material that could be used for new plastics, chemicals, or fuels.
https://techxplore.com/news/2024-04-approach-reusing-captured-carbon-cheaper.html
Since 2020, the annual market size of molded fiber product (MFP) worldwide has exceeded $3.5 billion US, and is growing rapidly. The reliability of MFP is closely related to its mechanical proper...
https://techxplore.com/news/2024-04-impact-environmental-factors-molded-fiber.html
Microsoft on Thursday said its profit rose 20% for the January-March quarter as it tries to position itself as a leader in applying artificial intelligence technology to make workplaces more prod...
https://techxplore.com/news/2024-04-microsoft-quarterly-profit-tech-giant.html
As summer approaches, electricity demand surges in the U.S., as homes and businesses crank up the air conditioning. To meet the rising need, many East Coast cities are banking on offshore wind pr...
https://techxplore.com/news/2024-04-energy-offshore-farms.html
The preprint "POLAR: Adaptive and Non-invasive Join Order Selection via Plans of Least Resistance" introduces an adaptive query processing technique that lowers the adoption barrier for existing ...
https://techxplore.com/news/2024-04-polar-lowers-barrier-query-database.html
A remotely operated underwater robot built by a team of Rice University engineering students pioneers a new way to control buoyancy via water-splitting fuel cells. The device, designed and constr...
https://techxplore.com/news/2024-04-underwater-robot-energy-efficient-buoyancy.html
Global automakers and EV startups unveiled new models and concept cars at China's largest auto show on Thursday, with a focus on the nation's transformation into a major market and production bas...
https://techxplore.com/news/2024-04-electric-cars-digital-dominate-beijing.html
A green industrial future for Europe may depend on an element that is part of a household staple: table salt. Dr. John Abou-Rjeily, a researcher at Tiamat Energy in France, is using sodium to dev...
https://techxplore.com/news/2024-04-sodium-rechargeable-batteries-bolster-eu.html
The US Federal Communications Commission voted on Thursday to reinstate tougher rules to guarantee open access to the internet, reversing a decision made during the Trump administration.
https://techxplore.com/news/2024-04-reinstates-internet-rescinded-trump.html
Japanese auto giant Honda announced Thursday the largest automotive investment in Canada's history, worth Can$15 billion (US$11 billion), for a massive new EV battery and vehicle assembly plant.
https://techxplore.com/news/2024-04-honda-us11-bn-ev-battery.html
Ever since the ancient Egyptians hammered two pieces of gold together until they fused, the art of welding has continuously progressed.
https://techxplore.com/news/2024-04-machine-reality-welders.html
Two of the biggest challenges faced by new and potential electric vehicle (EV) drivers are range anxiety and speed of charging, but these shouldn't have to be challenges at all. That is according...
https://techxplore.com/news/2024-04-electric-vehicle-drivers-range-anxiety.html
American Airlines reported a quarterly loss Thursday on an uptick in labor and other operating costs as the carrier confirmed its full-year financial forecast.
https://techxplore.com/news/2024-04-american-airlines-q1-loss.html
The Federal Trade Commission is sending more than $5.6 million in refunds to consumers as part of a settlement with Amazon-owned Ring, which was charged with failing to protect private video foot...
https://techxplore.com/news/2024-04-ftc-million-refunds-customers-video.html
How about turning a car's front bucket seats 180 degrees so they face the rear seats and extending out a table so the occupants can play cards or eat a meal? Or a 43-inch (109 centimeter) screen ...
https://techxplore.com/news/2024-04-chinese-automakers-redefine-car-space.html
If you've spent time on Facebook over the past six months, you may have noticed photorealistic images that are too good to be true: children holding paintings that look like the work of professio...
https://techxplore.com/news/2024-04-shrimp-jesus-fake-portraits-ai.html