A team of researchers designed and manufactured a new sodium-ion conductor for solid-state sodium-ion batteries that is stable when incorporated into higher-voltage oxide cathodes. This…
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Frost breaks off and “jumps” upward due to an electrostatic charge. Credit: Virginia Tech If you have ever gotten up on a winter morning and…
View More Jumping Frost Crystals: Electrostatic De-icing Effect Could Be a Game-Changer for Aircraft and HVAC Industries
A new MIT-fabricated metalens shifts focus without tilting, shifting, or otherwise moving. The design may enable miniature zoom lenses for drones, cellphones, or night-vision goggles.…
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A thermoelectric power generator worn as a ring. Credit: Xiao Lab Researchers at CU Boulder have developed a new, low-cost wearable device that transforms the human…
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Credit: Pixabay/CC0 Public Domain Microsoft confirmed it will launch Office 2021, the latest version of its productivity suite of apps like Word, Excel and others,…
View More Microsoft will release Office 2021 for Windows and Macs later this year
Epic Games, maker of Fortniteare to pay the equivalent of $8 to players who bought so-called ‘loot boxes’ containing game items without knowing what was…
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Quantum technologies for computers open up new concepts of preserving the privacy of input and output data of a computation. Scientists from the University of…
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Around a dozen research groups on the CMS experiment at the Large Hadron Collider have adopted the Coffea data analysis tool for their work. Starting…
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MIT researchers developed software to more efficiently run graph applications on a range of computing hardware, including both CPUs and GPUs. Credits:Image: Istockphoto images edited…
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Credit: Pixabay/CC0 Public Domain A team of researchers at security firm Red Canary has found evidence of a new kind of malware infecting Apple brand…
View More Red Canary researchers find evidence of malware on 30,000 infected Apple computers