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Tech Xplore / Machine learning aids rapid advancement of a high-resolution 3D printing technology

QUT biomedical engineers have developed a new automated method to drastically advance melt electrowriting, a new, high-resolution 3D printing technology used in tissue engineering and regenerative medicine.

Nov 18, 2024 in Engineering
Tech Xplore / AI and human writers share stylistic fingerprints: New work by researchers detects writing patterns of LLMs

People write with personal style and individual flourishes that set them apart from other writers. So does AI, including top programs like Chat GPT, new Johns Hopkins University-led research finds.

Nov 18, 2024 in Machine learning & AI
Tech Xplore / Leaner large language models could enable efficient local use on phones and laptops

Large language models (LLMs) are increasingly automating tasks like translation, text classification and customer service. But tapping into an LLM's power typically requires users to send their requests to a centralized server—a ...

Nov 18, 2024 in Computer Sciences
Tech Xplore / Modeling and analysis reveals technological, environmental challenges to increasing water recovery from desalination

Climate change is making water scarcer. A promising method to combat this problem is desalination technology because it can tap seawater.

Nov 18, 2024 in Engineering
Tech Xplore / How robotics can be used to better understand the 'sense of self' in humans

In a review paper published recently in Science Robotics a cognitive roboticist, cognitive psychologist and a psychiatrist discuss the concept of "sense of self" in humans, and they explore how robots can be used to better ...

Nov 18, 2024 in Robotics
Tech Xplore / New tool calculates intrinsic dynamics for effortless robot movements

Four-legged animals that start walking and gradually pick up speed will automatically fall into a trot at some point. This is because it would take more energy not to change gait. This correlation was discovered more than ...

Nov 18, 2024 in Robotics
Tech Xplore / Seatbelt-integrated biosensor could reliably track the alertness and stress of pilots and drivers

Over the past decades, electronics and biomedical engineers have developed increasingly sophisticated biosensors, devices that can pick up biological signals from human users. These sensors, which are generally embedded in ...

Tech Xplore / Engineers transform smartphones into instruments for studying space

That ordinary smartphone in your pocket could be a powerful tool for investigating outer space. In a new study, researchers at Google and CU Boulder have transformed millions of Android phones across the globe into a fleet ...

Nov 17, 2024 in Consumer & Gadgets
Tech Xplore / Common way to test for leaks in large language models may be flawed

Large language models are everywhere, including running in the background of the apps on the device you're using to read this. The auto-complete suggestions in your texts and emails, the query responses composed by Gemni, ...

Nov 15, 2024 in Security
Tech Xplore / AI headphones create a 'sound bubble,' quieting all sounds more than a few feet away

Imagine this: You're at an office job, wearing noise-canceling headphones to dampen the ambient chatter. A co-worker arrives at your desk and asks a question, but rather than needing to remove the headphones and say, "What?", ...

Tech Xplore / Novel electro-biodiesel offers a more efficient, cleaner alternative to existing options

Vehicles fueled by diesel lead to substantial carbon emissions that are challenging to decarbonize. In 2022, diesel fuel use made up about one-fourth of total U.S. transportation carbon dioxide emissions and about one-tenth ...

Nov 14, 2024 in Energy & Green Tech
Tech Xplore / AI can 'hear' when a lithium battery is about to catch fire

Researchers at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) have developed a way to use sound to detect when lithium-ion batteries are about to catch fire. The NIST team included Wai Cheong "Andy" Tam and Anthony ...

Nov 14, 2024 in Energy & Green Tech