Technology and commercial advancements are expected to continue to drive down the cost of wind energy, according to a survey led by Lawrence Berkeley National…
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Why people use mixed-reality sports platforms
Image credit: Kai Nehm. Shared under a Creative Commons license. New technologies allow users to do things like race their real bikes against other real…
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ITER Global Fusion Energy Project: After a Decade of Design and Fabrication, World’s Most Powerful Magnet Ready
Now 75% completed, ITER under construction in southern France is a collaboration of 35 partner countries: the European Union (plus the United Kingdom and Switzerland),…
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“Wonder Material” Can Be Used to Detect COVID-19 Virus Quickly and Accurately
An illustration of the graphene-based COVID-19 spike protein detection process developed at UIC. The white rectangle represents the substrate with graphene functionalized with SARS-CoV-2 antibody…
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Nvidia to stop support for Windows 7, 8, 8.1, and Kepler GPUs soon
Credit: Pixabay/CC0 Public Domain Nvidia, founding company of the GPU, has announced that on August 31 of 2021, support for Windows 7, 8 and 8.1,…
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Microsoft’s next operating system, Windows 11, reportedly leaked online
Credit: CC0 Public Domain A preview of Microsoft’s new Windows 11 operating system may have been leaked online. Some purported new features include a new…
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New Ultrathin Liquid Crystal Metalens Offers Electric Zoom
Conceptual rendering of an ultrathin, electrically tunable metalens developed by Cornell and Samsung engineers. Credit: Daniil Shilkin Researchers from Cornell’s School of Applied and Engineering Physics and…
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Qualcomm unveils 7 new Internet of Things chips to power smart grocery carts, remote work tech
Credit: Pixabay/CC0 Public Domain Qualcomm has been working for years to get its mobile technology into other products besides smartphones—think drones, laptops and smart security…
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New app tracks human mobility and COVID-19
Credit: Unsplash/CC0 Public Domain Analyzing how people move about in their daily lives has long been important to urban planners, traffic engineers, and others developing…
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New Tool Created to Aid in Development, Efficiency of Hydrogen-Powered Cars
Schematic inner workings of the electrodes in a fuel cell, and the importance of key parameters. Credit:Heinz et al., 2021 Widespread adoption of hydrogen-powered vehicles…
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