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Tech Xplore / Google StyleDrop generates images from text

It took Da Vinci 16 years to paint the Mona Lisa. Some say he needed 12 years just to paint her lips.

Jun 14, 2023 in Computer Sciences
Tech Xplore / Tiny device mimics human vision and memory abilities

Researchers have created a small device that "sees" and creates memories in a similar way to humans, in a promising step towards one day having applications that can make rapid, complex decisions such as in self-driving cars.

Jun 14, 2023 in Hardware
Tech Xplore / Hybrid AI-powered computer vision combines physics and big data

Researchers from UCLA and the United States Army Research Laboratory have laid out a new approach to enhance artificial intelligence-powered computer vision technologies by adding physics-based awareness to data-driven techniques.

Jun 14, 2023 in Computer Sciences
Tech Xplore / Study unveils policy insights for reshoring EV battery production

With the federal government incentivizing the expansion of domestic electric-vehicle battery manufacturing, a new Cornell University study examines the long-term energy and sustainability prospects of U.S. production, and ...

Jun 14, 2023 in Business
Tech Xplore / A model that can create synthetic speech that matches a speaker's lip movements

Machine learning models can help to solve several real-world problems faster and more efficiently. One among these problems involves synthesizing speech for both animated characters and human speakers based on the movements ...

Jun 13, 2023 in Computer Sciences
Tech Xplore / Team develops alloy to boost fusion energy

A newly developed tungsten-based alloy that performs well in extreme environments similar to those in fusion reactor prototypes may help harness fusion energy.

Jun 13, 2023 in Engineering
Tech Xplore / Meta's AI MusicGen makes music from text prompts

The 19th century philosopher Thomas Carlyle once declared, "Music is well said to be the speech of angels."

Jun 13, 2023 in Computer Sciences
Tech Xplore / Black phosphorus–based human–machine communication interface: A breakthrough in assistive technology

Researchers at the University of Chemistry and Technology in Prague have made progress in the field of assistive technology with the development of a novel auditory human–machine interface using black phosphorus–based ...

Jun 13, 2023 in Engineering
Tech Xplore / DeepMind achieves giant leap in sorting speed

Sorting, or data structuring, has been a core principle of computing operations since the first computers were developed.

Jun 12, 2023 in Computer Sciences
Tech Xplore / Team develops a novel, completely solid, rechargeable air battery

Metals are typically used as active materials for negative electrodes in batteries. Recently, redox-active organic molecules, such as quinone- and amine-based molecules, have been used as negative electrodes in rechargeable ...

Jun 12, 2023 in Energy & Green Tech
Tech Xplore / AI unlikely to gain human-like cognition, unless connected to real world through robots, says study

Connecting artificial intelligence systems to the real world through robots and designing them using principles from evolution is the most likely way AI will gain human-like cognition, according to research from the University ...

Jun 12, 2023 in Robotics
Tech Xplore / A new AI-based approach for controlling autonomous robots

In the film "Top Gun: Maverick," Maverick, played by Tom Cruise, is charged with training young pilots to complete a seemingly impossible mission—to fly their jets deep into a rocky canyon, staying so low to the ground ...

Jun 12, 2023 in Robotics