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Tech Xplore / AI learns to 'listen': Compact speech tokens help models understand spoken words

Large language models (LLMs) such as ChatGPT and Gemini were originally designed to work with text only. Today, they have evolved into systems that can work with many types of information at once (multimodal systems), as ...

Dec 1, 2025 in Computer Sciences
Tech Xplore / Machines whisper before they scream: We built an AI model that predicts expensive problems

In most industries, maintenance is a waiting game. Things are fixed when they break. But in the 21st century, an age defined by data and automation, that approach no longer makes sense. The solution could be predictive maintenance. ...

Dec 1, 2025 in Engineering
Tech Xplore / Self-heating and cooling without electricity: Non-powered 3D smart energy device developed

A research team developed a 3D Smart Building Energy-saving device capable of automatically controlling heating and cooling without electricity or an external power source.

Dec 1, 2025 in Engineering
Tech Xplore / Centralized car servers: New software architecture for future cars

To make autonomous vehicles as safe, affordable and competitive as possible, researchers at the Technical University of Munich (TUM) have teamed up with partners from the automotive industry to develop a centralized architecture ...

Dec 1, 2025 in Software
Tech Xplore / Improved formula predicts energy barriers in 2D chips, aiding ultra-scaled device development

A research team affiliated with UNIST has made a significant breakthrough in overcoming one of the most persistent challenges hindering the commercialization of two-dimensional (2D) semiconductor materials—contact resistance.

Dec 1, 2025 in Engineering
Tech Xplore / Electric vehicle prowess helps China's flying car sector take off

A worker in white gloves inspects the propellers of a boxy two-seater aircraft fresh off the assembly line at a Chinese factory trialing the mass production of flying cars.

Nov 30, 2025 in Hi Tech & Innovation
Tech Xplore / Can bigger-is-better 'scaling laws' keep AI improving forever? History says we can't be too sure

OpenAI chief executive Sam Altman—perhaps the most prominent face of the artificial intelligence (AI) boom that accelerated with the launch of ChatGPT in 2022—loves scaling laws.

Nov 29, 2025 in Machine learning & AI
Tech Xplore / BrainBody-LLM algorithm helps robots mimic human-like planning and movement

Large language models (LLMs), such as the model underpinning the functioning of OpenAI's platform ChatGPT, are now widely used to tackle a wide range of tasks, ranging from sourcing information to the generation of texts ...

Nov 28, 2025 in Robotics
Tech Xplore / Researchers extend tensor programming to the continuous world

When the FORTRAN programming language debuted in 1957, it transformed how scientists and engineers programmed computers. Complex calculations could suddenly be expressed in concise, math-like notation using arrays—collections ...

Nov 28, 2025 in Computer Sciences
Tech Xplore / All-solid-state batteries: New findings on space charge effects could improve efficiency

Batteries are found in many devices. The development of solid-state batteries that provide higher working voltage, have a higher capacity, and can no longer burn is the subject of current research. Researchers at the Max ...

Nov 28, 2025 in Engineering
Tech Xplore / Humans and AI models show similar confusion when reading tricky program code

Researchers from Saarland University and the Max Planck Institute for Software Systems have, for the first time, shown that the reactions of humans and large language models (LLMs) to complex or misleading program code significantly ...

Nov 28, 2025 in Computer Sciences
Tech Xplore / Intelligent photodetectors 'sniff and seek' like retriever dogs to recognize materials directly from light spectra

Researchers at the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA), in collaboration with UC Berkeley, have developed a new type of intelligent image sensor that can perform machine-learning inference during the act of photodetection ...