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Tech Xplore / Programmable photonic chip uses light to accelerate AI training and cut energy use
Penn Engineers have developed the first programmable chip that can train nonlinear neural networks using light—a breakthrough that could dramatically speed up AI training, reduce energy use and even pave the way for fully ...
Tech Xplore / Self-healing lithium battery stretches, survives punctures and cuts
A multidisciplinary team at the University of California, Berkeley, the Georgia Institute of Technology and the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology has developed a stretchable, self-healing lithium battery that ...
Tech Xplore / Lithium oxide sublimation opens doors for cheaper and quicker battery manufacturing
A common lithium salt has revealed new possibilities for manufacturing cheaper, longer-lasting battery materials.
Tech Xplore / Ambisonics algorithm helps create rich virtual soundscapes using a domed array of loudspeakers
Surround-sound speakers can immerse you in a multimedia experience, but what if there was a speaker that could completely re-create a three-dimensional soundscape?
Tech Xplore / Making desalination more eco-friendly: New membranes could help eliminate brine waste
Desalination plants, a major and growing source of freshwater in dry regions, could produce less harmful waste using electricity and new membranes made at the University of Michigan.
Tech Xplore / Training LLMs to self-detoxify their language
As we mature from childhood, our vocabulary—as well as the ways we use it—grows, and our experiences become richer, allowing us to think, reason, and interact with others with specificity and intention. Accordingly, our ...
Tech Xplore / Smoothing over rough edges in batteries: Discovery could improve device durability
Texas engineers have discovered a new phenomenon in modern batteries, one that could be used to improve their life cycles.
Tech Xplore / New model can generate audio and music tracks from diverse data inputs
In recent years, computer scientists have created various highly performing machine learning tools to generate texts, images, videos, songs and other content. Most of these computational models are designed to create content ...
Tech Xplore / Wearable AI system helps blind people navigate
A wearable system designed to assist navigation for blind and partially sighted people is presented in a study published in Nature Machine Intelligence. This system uses artificial intelligence (AI) algorithms to survey the ...
Tech Xplore / Physics reveals the optimal roof ratios for energy efficiency
While serving as a visiting professor in Benevento, outside Naples, Italy, Adrian Bejan noticed something about the local architecture: All the roofs looked the same. With what seemed like too-shallow peaks on smaller, older ...
Tech Xplore / Over-training large language models may make them harder to fine-tune
A small team of AI researchers from Carnegie Mellon University, Stanford University, Harvard University and Princeton University, all in the U.S., has found that if large language models are over-trained, it might make them ...
Tech Xplore / Water-based battery offers 2,000-cycle stability
A team of chemical and biomolecular engineers, physicists and battery specialists affiliated with several institutions in the U.S. has developed a water-based battery that offers 2,000-cycle stability. In their paper published ...