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Tech Xplore / Charting new paths in AI learning: How changing two variables leads to vastly different outcomes

In an era where artificial intelligence (AI) is transforming industries from health care to finance, understanding how these digital brains learn is more crucial than ever. Now, two researchers from EPFL, Antonia Sclocchi ...

Feb 21, 2024 in Computer Sciences
Tech Xplore / Dual-energy harvesting device could power future wireless medical implants

Implantable biomedical devices—like pacemakers, insulin pumps and neurostimulators—are becoming smaller and utilizing wireless technology, but hurdles remain for powering the next-generation implants. A new wireless charging ...

Tech Xplore / Researchers develop AI that can understand light in photographs

Despite significant progress in developing AI systems that can understand the physical world like humans do, researchers have struggled with modeling a certain aspect of our visual system: the perception of light.

Feb 21, 2024 in Machine learning & AI
Tech Xplore / Automated method helps researchers quantify uncertainty in their predictions

Pollsters trying to predict presidential election results and physicists searching for distant exoplanets have at least one thing in common: They often use a tried-and-true scientific technique called Bayesian inference.

Feb 21, 2024 in Computer Sciences
Tech Xplore / An architecture for sub-picowatt logic computing based on self-biased molybdenum disulfide transistors

The continuous improvement of circuits and electronic components is vital for the development of new technologies with enhanced capabilities and unique characteristics. In recent years, most electronics engineers have been ...

Feb 20, 2024 in Hardware
Tech Xplore / Engineers develop promising calcium-based battery that's rechargeable and operates at room temperature

A multi-institutional team of Chinese engineers has developed a proof-of-concept calcium-based battery that withstands 700 charge cycles at room temperature. In their paper published in the journal Nature, the group describes ...

Feb 20, 2024 in Energy & Green Tech
Tech Xplore / Science fiction meets reality as researchers develop techniques to overcome obstructed views

After a recent car crash, John Murray-Bruce wished he could have seen the other car coming. The crash reaffirmed the USF assistant professor of computer science and engineering's mission to create a technology that could ...

Feb 20, 2024 in Computer Sciences
Tech Xplore / The YouTube algorithm isn't radicalizing people, says bots study

About a quarter of Americans get their news on YouTube. With its billions of users and hours upon hours of content, YouTube is one the largest online media platforms in the world.

Feb 20, 2024 in Consumer & Gadgets
Tech Xplore / Improving traffic signal timing with a handful of connected vehicles

With GPS data from as little as 6% of vehicles on the road, University of Michigan researchers can recalibrate traffic signals to reduce congestion and delays at intersections significantly.

Feb 20, 2024 in Engineering
Tech Xplore / Adaptive smart glove can teach new physical skills

You've likely met someone who identifies as a visual or auditory learner, but others absorb knowledge through a different modality: touch. Being able to understand tactile interactions is especially important for tasks such ...

Feb 20, 2024 in Engineering
Tech Xplore / A novel elderly care robot could soon provide personal assistance, enhancing seniors' quality of life

Worldwide, humans are living longer than ever before. According to data from the United Nations, approximately 13.5% of the world's people were at least 60 years old in 2020, and by some estimates, that figure could increase ...

Feb 19, 2024 in Consumer & Gadgets
Tech Xplore / A multi-camera differential binocular vision sensor for robots and autonomous systems

Recent technological advances have enabled the development of increasingly sophisticated sensors, which can help to advance the sensing capabilities of robots, drones, autonomous vehicles, and other smart systems. Many of ...

Feb 19, 2024 in Hardware