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Tech Xplore / Tomorrow's digital screens may be soft and elastic, so you'll get to 'feel' items through your phone
A touch screen for digital devices that can be deformed through finger pressure, becoming softer or stiffer in direct response to force applied by the user, has been developed by computer scientists at the University of Bath ...
Tech Xplore / Controlled diffusion model can change material properties of objects in images
Researchers from the MIT Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory (CSAIL) and Google Research may have just performed digital sorcery—in the form of a diffusion model that can change the material properties ...
Tech Xplore / Researchers develop sustainable strategy to manipulate interfacial heat transfer for eco-friendly cooling applications
Researchers at the School of Engineering of the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (HKUST) have developed a sustainable and controllable strategy to manipulate interfacial heat transfer, paving the way for improving ...
Tech Xplore / A new model to produce more natural synthesized speech
Recent technological advances are enabling the development of computational tools that could significantly improve the quality of life of individuals with disabilities or sensory impairments. These include so-called electromyography-to-speech ...
Tech Xplore / Scientists find ChatGPT is inaccurate when answering computer programming questions
A team of computer scientists at Purdue University has found that the popular LLM, ChatGPT, is wildly inaccurate when responding to computer programming questions. In their paper published as part of the Proceedings of the ...
Tech Xplore / New microfluidic technique to measure elastic modulus of microfiber for wide biomedical engineering applications
An Engineering team at the University of Hong Kong (HKU) has developed a novel microfluidic technique capable of greatly enhancing applications in materials science and biomedical engineering.
Tech Xplore / An approach to enable both locomotion and manipulation in a snake-inspired robot
Snake-inspired robots could have various advantages over conventional wheeled or legged robots. For instance, slithering robots can adapt the shape of their body, enter narrow spaces, and move freely in environments that ...
Tech Xplore / Extending the lifespan of lithium-metal batteries using a fluorinated ether diluent
The design of battery technologies with increasingly longer lifespans could help to meet the growing needs of the electronics and automotive industry. Lithium (Li) batteries are the most widely used rechargeable batteries ...
Tech Xplore / Imperceptible sensors made from 'electronic spider silk' can be printed directly on human skin
Researchers have developed a method to make adaptive and eco-friendly sensors that can be directly and imperceptibly printed onto a wide range of biological surfaces, whether that's a finger or a flower petal.
Tech Xplore / To 6G and beyond: Engineers unlock the next generation of wireless communications
In the early 2010s, LightSquared, a multibillion-dollar startup promising to revolutionize cellular communications, declared bankruptcy. The company couldn't figure out how to prevent its signals from interfering with those ...
Tech Xplore / Transparent metamaterial for energy-efficient regulation in building can clean itself like a lotus leaf
Researchers at the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT) introduce a polymer-based material with unique properties in the journal Nature Communications. This material allows sunlight to enter, maintains a more comfortable ...
Tech Xplore / A method to generate predictor circuits for the classification of tabular data
Deep learning techniques have become increasingly advanced over the past few years, reaching human-level accuracy on a wide range of tasks, including image classification and natural language processing.