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Technologies

Spintronic Computing Breakthrough: Taking 2D Materials for a Spin

lutra 07 March 2021

Spintronic computing artistic concept illustration. Scientists at the University of Tsukuba and the Institute of High Pressure Physics fabricate a novel molybdenum disulfide transistor and…

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Technologies

Radiative Cooling and Solar Heating From One System – No Electricity Needed

lutra 07 March 2021

The system lowered the temperature inside a test system in an outdoor environment under direct sunlight by more than 12 degrees Celsius (22 degrees Fahrenheit).…

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Technologies

“Virtual Unfolding” – Scientists Read 300-Year-Old Sealed Historic Letter Without Opening It

lutra 06 March 2021

Computer-generated unfolding animation of sealed letter DB-1538. In our paper we describe how “virtual unfolding” was used to read the contents of sealed letterpackets from…

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Technologies

Retinal Implants Equipped With 10,500 Electrodes to Give Artificial Vision to the Blind

lutra 06 March 2021

Retinal implants can give artificial vision to the blind. Credit: Alain Herzog / 2021 EPFL Being able to make blind people see again sounds like…

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Technologies

Engineering the Boundary Interface Between 2D and 3D Materials

lutra 04 March 2021

These images of “islands” of gold atoms deposited on a layer of two-dimensional molybdenum sulfide were produced by two different modes, using a new scanning…

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Technologies

Insect-Inspired Flying Robots: Researchers Introduce a New Generation of Tiny, Agile Drones

lutra 03 March 2021

Insects’ remarkable acrobatic traits help them navigate the aerial world, with all of its wind gusts, obstacles, and general uncertainty. Such traits are also hard…

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Technologies

NASA to Begin High-Voltage Testing on X-57 Maxwell All-Electric Aircraft

lutra 03 March 2021

This artist’s concept of NASA’s X-57 Maxwell aircraft shows the plane’s specially designed wing and 14 electric motors. NASA Aeronautics researchers will use the Maxwell…

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Technologies

Using Underwater Telecommunication Cables to Detect Earthquakes

lutra 03 March 2021

Seismologists at Caltech working with optics experts at Google have developed a method to use existing underwater telecommunication cables to detect earthquakes. The technique could…

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Technologies

Researchers Develop Speedier Network Analysis to Boost Recommendation Algorithms and Internet Search

lutra 02 March 2021

MIT researchers developed software to more efficiently run graph applications on a range of computing hardware, including both CPUs and GPUs.Credit: Istockphoto images edited by…

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Technologies

Quantum Building Blocks to Produce Exotic Electronic and Magnetic Properties

lutra 02 March 2021

Transition metals stitched into graphene with an electron beam form promising quantum building blocks. Credit: Ondrej Dyck, Andrew Lupini and Jacob Swett/ORNL, U.S. Dept. of…

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Software

The Chrome browser leans in with more personal profiles

lutra 05 March 2021

Credit: Google Space: It is a final frontier for astronauts and astronomers to search and explore other worlds, but for many of us, it is…

Software

Microsoft’s new Power Fx offers developers an open source, low-code programming language

lutra 05 March 2021

Credit: Microsoft During its 2021 Ignite conference, Microsoft announced the launch of Power Fx, a low-code and completely open source programming language. As the foundation…

Software

Virtual reality helps people stay fit and well through lockdown

lutra 04 March 2021

Credit: Pixabay/CC0 Public Domain People who use virtual reality headsets as a way of passing the time during lockdown are exercising more vigorously and feeling…

Software

Reinforcement learning algorithms score higher than humans, other AI systems at classic video games

lutra 26 February 2021

A team of researchers at Uber AI Labs in San Francisco has developed a set of learning algorithms that proved to be better at playing…

Hardware

Samsung announces high bandwidth memory, processing-in-memory architecture

lutra 18 February 2021

Credit: Samsung Samsung Electronics has announced on its Newsroom webpage the development of a new kind of memory chip architecture called high-bandwidth memory, processing-in-memory—HBM-PIM. The…

Hardware

Imec showcases world’s first sub-5mw, IEEE 802.15.4z ultra-wideband transmitter chip

lutra 17 February 2021

Imec showcases the first IEEE 802.15.4z impulse-radio ultra-wideband (IR-UWB) transmitter chip, with a record-low power consumption of 4.9mW. Credit: imec At this week’s International Solid-State…

Hardware

Qualcomm’s new 5G modem promises 10 gigabits per second peak download speeds

lutra 11 February 2021

Credit: Pixabay/CC0 Public Domain Qualcomm rolled out its next generation of 5G processors Tuesday that the company says can deliver peak download speeds of 10…

Hardware

Intel’s benchmark claims against Apple’s M1 draw scrutiny

lutra 08 February 2021

Credit: CC0 Public Domain They say that breaking up is hard to do. Apple and Intel had a 15-year relationship as Intel produced the chips…

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