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Tech Xplore / Meta launches personal AI agent, Muse, emphasizes safety and privacy
Meta launched on Tuesday a personal artificial intelligence agent, Muse, for people 18 and over who are looking for help with day-to-day tasks like schedules, shopping and, in the company's words, turning "long-term goals ...
Tech Xplore / Built-in quantum sensor detects bending stress in microscopic devices
Microelectromechanical systems (MEMS) are tiny devices used in technologies such as microphones, accelerometers and biosensors. MEMS are highly useful but prone to physical stress that affects their performance, stability ...
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 ...
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 ...
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.
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 ...
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 ...
Tech Xplore / Editorial proposes limits on generative AI's role in scientific research
An editorial by Charles Branas and Bruce Levine proposes norms for the use of AI in science.
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 ...
Tech Xplore / Academics use London Tube map to model options for nuclear fuel cycle
A new review paper from the Dalton Nuclear Institute at The University of Manchester uses a Tube map design to examine how closing the nuclear fuel cycle—recycling and reusing materials from used fuel—improves the sustainability ...
Tech Xplore / New flow sensor can measure hydrogen in pipes of any size
Until now, it has been almost impossible to measure the energy density of hydrogen precisely, but a new sensor can register every single molecule. This could lay the foundation for correct accounting in the hydrogen economy.
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, ...
