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Tech Xplore / AI assistant uses smartwatches, speech and text to spot distress early
What if your smartwatch could tell when you were struggling emotionally and offer support before you even thought to ask? That's the idea behind a new AI-powered system developed by researchers at the University of Ottawa, ...
Tech Xplore / Dog-bone design helps 2D nanoribbon transistors stay fast and efficient as widths shrink
Transistors, small semiconductor-based switches that control the flow of electricity, are central components of all electronic devices, from computers to smartphones, wearables, sensors and smart appliances. Over the past ...
Tech Xplore / An AI model that thinks like we do offers new ways to peer inside the black box
When a standard large language model (LLM) is confronted with a problem, it tries to solve it by matching it to similar information it has seen before, and then give an answer based on those past patterns. But how it decides ...
Tech Xplore / Artificial skin enables robots to simultaneously sense temperature and pressure like humans
A research team led by Prof. Seung Hwan Ko of Seoul National University College of Engineering's Department of Mechanical Engineering has developed an artificial skin technology that enables robots to sense temperature and ...
Tech Xplore / Researchers create PaperTok, an AI system that helps users turn research papers into short, engaging videos
Students in the University of Washington's Prosocial Computing Group noticed a trend on social media: People were using generative artificial intelligence to make short science videos. The trouble was that these people weren't ...
Tech Xplore / BurgerAI creates custom burgers tailored for taste, health and the planet
Stanford researcher Ellen Kuhl estimates that there are some 1043 potential burger recipes in the world. And with BurgerAI, a new tool developed in her lab, artificial intelligence can now design the best one for you based ...
Tech Xplore / Shifting data center power to off-peak hours could cut grid costs in the age of AI
The number of U.S. data centers is growing, largely to power artificial intelligence programs. That has led to concern about the environmental consequences of data centers—and their impact on the energy grid itself. What ...
Tech Xplore / It only takes one fake web page to fool AI shopping bots, study finds
AI shopping assistants are popping up all over the internet, changing how we browse, compare and discover products. However, these helpful tools appear to have a serious security flaw. According to a paper published on the ...
Tech Xplore / IBM unveils 0.7-nanometer chip tech promising 50% higher performance and up to 70% better energy efficiency
IBM unveiled new semiconductor technology Thursday that the company says could deliver computer chips with 50% better performance while dramatically lowering power consumption.
Tech Xplore / Agentic AI bot helps scientists speak to robots, speeding up experiments
Researchers at the Department of Energy's Pacific Northwest National Laboratory use a slew of autonomous robots to design and implement experiments. However, setting up an experiment on an autonomous lab robot is surprisingly ...
Tech Xplore / Ferroelectric memory enables one chip to sample randomness and compute for generative AI
For the first time, a research team has demonstrated an artificial intelligence semiconductor technology that integrates the core functions of generative AI into a single device platform based on ferroelectric memory. This ...
Tech Xplore / Plain-language AI workflow tool could cut cloud energy use and costs dramatically
Agentic workflows are artificial intelligence-powered software systems that chain together multiple models and external tools to tackle complicated tasks, like analyzing a video and answering questions about it. But the way ...
