Researchers have created an innovative system for generating personalized storybooks. This system utilizes generative artificial intelligence and home IoT technology to assist children in languag...
https://techxplore.com/news/2024-07-generative-ai-personalized-storybooks-future.html
Strategically planting perennial grass throughout corn and soybean fields helps address the unintended environmental consequences of growing the dominant row crops, including soil erosion, fertil...
https://techxplore.com/news/2024-07-explores-winwin-potential-grass-powered.html
An algorithm developed by Washington State University researchers can better find data anomalies than current anomaly-detection software, including in streaming data.
https://techxplore.com/news/2024-07-algorithm-anomalies-outperforms-current-software.html
Deep learning models, such as those used in medical imaging to help detect disease or abnormalities, must be trained with a lot of data. However, often there isn't enough data available to train ...
https://techxplore.com/news/2024-07-deep-limited-method-errors-imaging.html
At first glance, the plan sounds compelling: invent and develop future electrolyzers capable of producing hydrogen directly from unpurified seawater. But a closer look reveals that such direct se...
https://techxplore.com/news/2024-07-experts-hype-deriving-green-hydrogen.html
Local decentralized energy systems, known as microgrids, can make urban infrastructures more resilient and reduce risks for the population, for example, in large-scale power outages due to natura...
https://techxplore.com/news/2024-07-microgrids-account-fair-decentralized-energy.html
Engineering researchers at the University of Minnesota Twin Cities have demonstrated a state-of-the-art hardware device that could reduce energy consumption for artificial intelligent (AI) comput...
https://techxplore.com/news/2024-07-magnetic-tunnel-junctionbased-device-ai.html
A team of computer scientists and roboticists with members from Texas A&M University in the U.S., and the Mohamed Bin Zayed University of Artificial Intelligence in Abu Dhabi, working with a coll...
https://techxplore.com/news/2024-07-robot-configured-stun-weeds-blowtorch.html
Scientists are closer to giving the next generation of solar cells a powerful boost by integrating a process that could make the technology more efficient by breaking particles of light—photons...
https://techxplore.com/news/2024-07-magnetic-fields-particle-boosting-solar.html
OpenAI on Thursday said it was putting its artificial intelligence engine to work in a challenge to Google's market-dominating search engine.
https://techxplore.com/news/2024-07-openai-google-functionality.html
Artificial intelligence (AI) is hot right now. Also hot: the data centers that power the technology. And keeping those centers cool requires a tremendous amount of energy.
https://techxplore.com/news/2024-07-cool-solution-generation-cooling-centers.html
If you use Google—and chances are you do—then you're used to seeing ads when searching online. But how do those ads get on Google search and, more importantly, who is paying for them? It's ea...
https://techxplore.com/news/2024-07-google-brand-ads-sham-companies.html
The first modern barcode was scanned 50 years ago this summer—on a 10-pack of chewing gum in a grocery store in Troy, Ohio.
https://techxplore.com/news/2024-07-happy-50th-birthday-upc-barcode.html
A sustainable source for clean energy may lie in old soda cans and seawater. MIT engineers have found that when the aluminum in soda cans is exposed in its pure form and mixed with seawater, the ...
https://techxplore.com/news/2024-07-recipe-emissions-fuel-soda-cans.html
A new type of valve that makes soft robots more resilient to damage, has been developed by engineers at the University of Sheffield.
https://techxplore.com/news/2024-07-valve-soft-robots-resilience-boost.html
Chemists at Kaunas University of Technology (KTU), Lithuania have synthesized materials that can improve solar elements for indoor use. Such photovoltaic cells, which can also be integrated into ...
https://techxplore.com/news/2024-07-scientists-indoor-solar-cells-maximizes.html
A new method to measure the continuous spectrum of light, developed in the lab of University of Houston professor of electrical and computer engineering Jiming Bao, is set to improve thermal imag...
https://techxplore.com/news/2024-07-technique-thermal-imaging-infrared-thermography.html
Using AI-generated datasets to train future generations of machine learning models may pollute their output, a concept known as model collapse, according to a new paper published in Nature. The r...
Self-amputation may seem like a drastic move, but it's a survival tactic that's proved particularly handy for numerous creatures. Yale roboticists have drawn inspiration from lizards, crabs, and ...
https://techxplore.com/news/2024-07-robot-survives-amputation.html
Radiofrequency (RF) switches are electronic components that control the routing of RF signals between different segments of circuits, for instance turning the signals on and off or redirecting th...
https://techxplore.com/news/2024-07-memristive-radiofrequency-mmwave-applications.html
Self-driving cars occasionally crash because their visual systems can't always process static or slow-moving objects in 3D space. In that regard, they're like the monocular vision of many insects...
https://techxplore.com/news/2024-07-team-biomimetic-vision-based-praying.html
When picturing next-generation wearables and robotics, the foam filling in your couch cushions is likely not the first thing that comes to mind. However, Rice University engineers have shown that...
https://techxplore.com/news/2024-07-foam-fluidics-showcase-team-creative.html
A research team at Rice University led by James Tour, the T.T. and W.F. Chao Professor of Chemistry and professor of materials science and nanoengineering, is tackling the environmental issue of ...
https://techxplore.com/news/2024-07-nondestructive-cathode-recycling-method-magnetic.html
Computer science researchers have developed a new method for predicting what data wireless computing users will need before they need it, making wireless networks faster and more reliable. The ne...
https://techxplore.com/news/2024-07-digital-twin-method-boost-wireless.html
Residential buildings account for a large percentage of global energy consumption, and many countries around the world are looking into effective solutions to this issue amidst the ongoing energy...
https://techxplore.com/news/2024-07-net-energy-houses-optimizing-size.html
In an era where the internet connects virtually every aspect of our lives, the security of information systems has become paramount. Safeguarding critical databases containing private and commerc...
https://techxplore.com/news/2024-07-event-driven-optical-encryption-advances.html
A team of engineers from Tsinghua University, working at China's high-temperature reactor with a pebble-bed module (HTR-PM), claims that the reactor has passed a critical cooling test. In their s...
https://techxplore.com/news/2024-07-meltdown-proof-nuclear-reactor-loss.html
Ubiquitous wireless technologies like Wi-Fi, Bluetooth, and 5G rely on radio frequency (RF) signals to send and receive data. A new prototype of an energy harvesting module—developed by a team ...
https://techxplore.com/news/2024-07-battery-free-technology-power-electronic.html
Organizations are increasingly utilizing machine-learning models to allocate scarce resources or opportunities. For instance, such models can help companies screen resumes to choose job interview...
https://techxplore.com/news/2024-07-allocating-scarce-resources-ai-randomization.html
Most robotic systems developed to date can either tackle a specific task with high precision or complete a range of simpler tasks with low precision. For instance, some industrial robots can comp...
https://techxplore.com/news/2024-07-based-method-robots-reliably.html