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Tech Xplore / New Apple CEO unveils latest iPhone lineup, including a foldable model called Duo

Apple on Wednesday unveiled its latest generation of iPhones, including a widely anticipated foldable version called Duo.

Sep 9, 2026
Tech Xplore / A stolen-phone safeguard could disrupt home alarms and block new flagship phones

When a phone is lost or stolen, reporting it to a cellular carrier is supposed to prevent unauthorized use. Michigan State University researchers have found that weaknesses in the reporting system itself could potentially ...

Sep 9, 2026
Tech Xplore / Bridging the information gap: AI-driven quality control for 5G multicast broadcasting

Cable television (CATV) remains a cornerstone of how national broadcasts and emergency information reach thousands of households. Unfortunately, many older apartment buildings were not built with fiber-optic wiring in mind, ...

Sep 9, 2026
Tech Xplore / Bringing classical LDPC code design theory to quantum computers

Quantum error correction must detect and correct errors without directly reading the quantum information. Classical low-density parity check (LDPC) codes have a well-established design theory: by choosing how many checks ...

Sep 9, 2026
Tech Xplore / Memristor chip breaks the capacity limit of brain-inspired associative memory

Researchers in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering of the Faculty of Engineering and the Centre for Advanced Semiconductors and Integrated Circuits (CASIC) at the University of Hong Kong (HKU) have made ...

Sep 8, 2026
Tech Xplore / Invention may bring smart bionic eye into sight

A working prototype that can see, remember and interact with the world like the human brain could one day underpin smart bionic eyes while using far less energy than today's technologies. The invention from RMIT University ...

Sep 8, 2026
Tech Xplore / Tracking energy flow reveals voltage pattern that slashes waste heat by over 60%

Almost all the energy that flows into computing devices is eventually squandered as waste heat.

Sep 8, 2026
Tech Xplore / Whole-body expansion and contraction make a robot seem more alive

A research group comprising Associate Professor Yoshihiro Nakata and Taisei Mogi from the Graduate School of Informatics and Engineering at The University of Electro-Communications (UEC), Japan, and Mari Saito of Sony Corporation ...

Sep 8, 2026
Tech Xplore / A tiny crystal tilt may bring greener magnetic memory closer to everyday devices

University of Warwick researchers have created a new material combining two properties, magnetism and electrical polarization, that scientists have struggled to bring together for decades—and crucially, it works close to ...

Sep 8, 2026
Tech Xplore / Climate, not concrete mix, may drive steel corrosion in low-carbon structures

It is hard to imagine the modern world without concrete. Enormous quantities are used in construction worldwide, and the production of cement—its main ingredient—generates a great deal of CO₂, a greenhouse gas that accelerates ...

Sep 7, 2026
Tech Xplore / Iron could make high-energy sodium-ion batteries last longer

Lithium-ion batteries (LiBs), which charge and discharge by moving lithium ions between two electrodes known as the cathode and anode, remain the most widely used rechargeable batteries worldwide. Over the past decades, however, ...

Sep 5, 2026
Tech Xplore / Long AI conversations reveal misinformation vulnerabilities across seven leading chatbots

The results are in: Which AI model is the most fallible? Persuadable? Correctible? University of Arizona researchers assessed seven different generative AI large language models, or LLMs, for these three qualities during ...

Sep 5, 2026