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Tech Xplore / Approach improves how new skills are taught to large language models

Researchers have developed a technique that significantly improves the performance of large language models without increasing the computational power necessary to fine-tune the models. The researchers demonstrated that their ...

Jul 7, 2025 in Computer Sciences
Tech Xplore / Stretchable electronics: Conductive polymer optimized for wearable biosensors

When aiming for stretchable, health-monitoring, skin-like sensor sheets, materials with demanding properties are required: they need to be flexible, biocompatible, and electrically conductive at the same time.

Tech Xplore / From position to meaning: How AI learns to read

The language capabilities of today's artificial intelligence systems are astonishing. We can now engage in natural conversations with systems like ChatGPT, Gemini, and many others, with a fluency nearly comparable to that ...

Jul 7, 2025 in Computer Sciences
Tech Xplore / The future of aqueous batteries: From hydrogen bonds to high performance

A research team led by Prof. Pan Feng from the School of Advanced Materials, Peking University Shenzhen Graduate School has uncovered key mechanisms that govern how protons are stored and transported in aqueous batteries.

Jul 7, 2025 in Energy & Green Tech
Tech Xplore / Decoupled electrolysis method paves way for industrial-scale green hydrogen production

A recent review in Nature Reviews Clean Technology presents, for the first time, a pathway for scaling up decoupled water electrolysis (DWE) technologies to produce industrial-scale green hydrogen.

Jul 7, 2025 in Energy & Green Tech
Tech Xplore / Mass timber could elevate hospital construction: Study shows engineered wood is more microbe-resistant than plastic

Picture a hospital and you might imagine concrete, stainless steel or plastic. But University of Oregon researchers hope to make wood—often overlooked in health care facilities—more commonplace in those settings.

Jul 7, 2025 in Engineering
Tech Xplore / Houses made from rice: Kyrgyzstan's eco-friendly revolution

It may look like an ordinary building site but Akmatbek Uraimov's new house in Kyrgyzstan is being built with blocks of rice.

Jul 7, 2025 in Energy & Green Tech
Tech Xplore / AI cloud infrastructure gets faster and greener: NPU core improves inference performance by over 60%

The latest generative AI models such as OpenAI's ChatGPT-4 and Google's Gemini 2.5 require not only high memory bandwidth but also large memory capacity. This is why generative AI cloud operating companies like Microsoft ...

Jul 7, 2025 in Hardware
Tech Xplore / Underwater turbine spinning for 6 years off Scotland's coast is a breakthrough for tidal energy

Submerged in about 40 meters (44 yards) of water off Scotland's coast, a turbine has been spinning for more than six years to harness the power of ocean tides for electricity—a durability mark that demonstrates the technology's ...

Jul 7, 2025 in Energy & Green Tech
Tech Xplore / Low-power, nonvolatile RF switch promises energy-efficient 6G and autonomous vehicle communications

A research team affiliated with UNIST has unveiled a new semiconductor device optimized for the next-generation 6G era and autonomous driving, offering low power consumption and nonvolatile operation. This innovative device ...

Tech Xplore / AI robots fill in for weed killers and farm hands

Oblivious to the punishing midday heat, a wheeled robot powered by the sun and infused with artificial intelligence carefully combs a cotton field in California, plucking out weeds.

Jul 6, 2025 in Robotics
Tech Xplore / Researcher develops 'SpeechSSM,' opening up possibilities for a 24-hour AI voice assistant

Recently, spoken language models (SLMs) have been highlighted as next-generation technology that surpasses the limitations of text-based language models by learning human speech without text to understand and generate linguistic ...

Jul 4, 2025 in Hi Tech & Innovation