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Tech Xplore / Wearable tech lets users control machines and robots while on the move

Engineers at the University of California San Diego have developed a next-generation wearable system that enables people to control machines using everyday gestures—even while running, riding in a car or floating on turbulent ...

Tech Xplore / Google unveils Gemini 3, aiming to turn its search engine into a 'thought partner'

Google is unleashing its Gemini 3 artificial intelligence model on its dominant search engine and other popular online services in the high-stakes battle to create technology that people can trust to enlighten them and manage ...

Nov 18, 2025 in Business
Tech Xplore / Ultrasonic device dramatically speeds harvesting of water from the air

Feeling thirsty? Why not tap into the air? Even in desert conditions, there exists some level of humidity that, with the right material, can be soaked up and squeezed out to produce clean drinking water. In recent years, ...

Nov 18, 2025 in Engineering
Tech Xplore / Could atoms be reordered to enhance electronic devices?

The optical properties of a thin layer of the semiconductor germanium-tin (GeSn) sandwiched between barriers of silicon-germanium-tin (SiGeSn), a structure known as a quantum well, have been studied with a focus on improving ...

Tech Xplore / Security vulnerability identified in EV charging protocol

Southwest Research Institute identified a security vulnerability in a standard protocol governing communications between electric vehicles (EV) and EV charging equipment. The research prompted the Cybersecurity & Infrastructure ...

Nov 18, 2025 in Security
Tech Xplore / 'Ice-fire' forge crafts wafer-scale energy storage capacitors in just one second

A research team led by Prof. Hu Weijin from the Institute of Metal Research (IMR) of the Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS), in collaboration with partners, has developed a one-second fabrication method for wafer-scale energy ...

Tech Xplore / WhatsApp security vulnerability discovered by researchers

IT-Security Researchers from the University of Vienna and SBA Research identified and responsibly disclosed a large-scale privacy weakness in WhatsApp's contact discovery mechanism that allowed the enumeration of 3.5 billion ...

Nov 18, 2025 in Computer Sciences
Tech Xplore / Wireless image transmission technique filters redundant data intuitively—just like a human

A new AI-driven technology developed by researchers at UNIST promises to significantly reduce data transmission loads during image transfer, paving the way for advancements in autonomous vehicles, remote surgery and diagnostics, ...

Nov 18, 2025 in Computer Sciences
Tech Xplore / Sustainable, solar-powered 15-minute city: Scientists envision neighborhood clusters sharing energy and resources

The rapid urbanization of the past century has made the car-centric North American city the norm. However, rising greenhouse gas emissions and fuel prices are pushing researchers and planners to look for innovative urban ...

Nov 18, 2025 in Energy & Green Tech
Tech Xplore / AI and extended reality help to preserve built cultural heritage

The Notre-Dame Cathedral in Lausanne was built between 1170 and 1235 and is the largest Gothic church in Switzerland. Over time, this imposing building has been altered, extended and restored on multiple occasions.

Nov 18, 2025 in Engineering
Tech Xplore / Cloudflare outage impacts thousands, disrupts transit systems, ChatGPT, X and more

A widely used Internet infrastructure company said that it has resolved an issue that led to outages impacting users of everything from ChatGPT and the online game, "League of Legends," to the New Jersey Transit system early ...

Nov 18, 2025 in Internet
Tech Xplore / Small, inexpensive hydrophone boosts undersea signals

Researchers at MIT Lincoln Laboratory have developed a first-of-its-kind hydrophone built around a simple, commercially available microphone. The device, leveraging a common microfabrication process known as microelectromechanical ...

Nov 18, 2025 in Engineering