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Tech Xplore / Is your bank keeping your secrets? New study says 'It's complicated'

Banks are among the most tightly regulated institutions in the United States, but a new University of Michigan study suggests they may be sharing customers' personal data far more freely than most people realize.

Oct 9, 2025 in Business
Tech Xplore / People-pleasing chatbots may boost your ego, but they can weaken your judgment

Most people enjoy receiving praise occasionally, but if it comes from sycophantic chatbots, it could be doing you more harm than good. Computer scientists from Stanford University and Carnegie Mellon University have found ...

Oct 8, 2025 in Consumer & Gadgets
Tech Xplore / 3D printing method 'grows' intricate, ultra-strong materials inside water-based gel

Vat photopolymerization is a 3D printing technique in which a light-sensitive resin is poured into a vat, and then selectively hardened into a desired shape using a laser or UV light. But this process is mostly used only ...

Oct 8, 2025 in Engineering
Tech Xplore / Rechargeable magnesium battery prototype achieves stable operation at room temperature

As technology advances, the demand for large-scale and sustainable energy storage also increases. To address this need, researchers at Tohoku University have developed a prototype rechargeable magnesium battery (RMB) that ...

Oct 8, 2025 in Energy & Green Tech
Tech Xplore / How to reduce greenhouse gas emissions from ammonia production

Ammonia is one of the most widely produced chemicals in the world, used mostly as fertilizer, but also for the production of some plastics, textiles, and other applications. Its production, through processes that require ...

Oct 8, 2025 in Energy & Green Tech
Tech Xplore / Hardware vulnerability allows attackers to hack AI training data

Researchers from NC State University have identified the first hardware vulnerability that allows attackers to compromise the data privacy of artificial intelligence (AI) users by exploiting the physical hardware on which ...

Oct 8, 2025 in Hardware
Tech Xplore / New haptic system lets soft objects respond to taps, squeezes and twists

New technology that invites expressive, two-way communication between a person and the soft, flexible object they are holding or wearing has been developed at the University of Bath.

Oct 8, 2025 in Software
Tech Xplore / Novel AI tool opens 3D modeling to blind and low-vision programmers

Blind and low-vision programmers have long been locked out of three-dimensional modeling software, which depends on sighted users dragging, rotating and inspecting shapes on screen.

Oct 8, 2025 in Computer Sciences
Tech Xplore / Friction-based landing gear enables drones to safely land on fast-moving vehicles

Drones have become a more common sight in our skies and are used for everything from consumer hobbies like aerial photography to industrial applications such as farming, surveillance and logistics. However, they are not without ...

Oct 7, 2025 in Robotics
Tech Xplore / Back to the future: Is light-speed analog computing on the horizon?

Scientists have achieved a breakthrough in analog computing, developing a programmable electronic circuit that harnesses the properties of high-frequency electromagnetic waves to perform complex parallel processing at light-speed.

Oct 7, 2025 in Hardware
Tech Xplore / Next-generation perovskite solar cells are closer to commercial use

As renewable energy technologies advance, researchers aim to make solar power more efficient, affordable, and durable. Scientists from Kaunas University of Technology (KTU), Lithuania, in collaboration with international ...

Oct 7, 2025 in Engineering
Tech Xplore / Global efficiency record set for large, triple-junction perovskite solar cell

A University of Sydney-led team has set a record for solar technology, creating the largest and most efficient triple-junction perovskite-perovskite-silicon tandem solar cell reported.