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Engineering
Stainless-steel component boosts bacteria-based biobattery
Engineering innovations generally require long hours in the lab, with a lot of trial and error through experimentation before zeroing in on the best solution.
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Computer Sciences
AI chatbots remain overconfident—even when they're wrong, study finds
Artificial intelligence chatbots are everywhere these days, from smartphone apps and customer service portals to online search engines. But what happens when these handy tools overestimate their own abilities?
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New scrubbing robot could contribute to automation of household chores
While the advent of robotic systems that can complete household chores has been widely anticipated, those commercially released so far are primarily robot vacuums that autonomously clean the floor. In contrast, robots that ...

Why humans excel at recognizing objects from fragments while AI struggles
A study from EPFL reveals why humans excel at recognizing objects from fragments while AI struggles, highlighting the critical role of contour integration in human vision.
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Image generation reimagined: Tokenizers and decoders enable editing and inpainting without generators
AI image generation—which relies on neural networks to create new images from a variety of inputs, including text prompts—is projected to become a billion-dollar industry by the end of this decade. Even with today's technology, ...
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Energy & Green Tech
Study shows electrified cities could become giant batteries
Our electric vehicles (EVs) and hot water systems could become powerful assets for the electricity grid and help turn Australian cities into giant batteries, new research from The Australian National University (ANU) has ...
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Robotics
New approach allows drone swarms to autonomously navigate complex environments at high speed
Unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs), commonly known as drones, are now widely used worldwide to tackle various real-world tasks, including filming videos for various purposes, monitoring crops or other environments from above, ...
Jul 21, 2025
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Energy & Green Tech

Co-intercalation process enables fast-charging sodium batteries
Li-ion and Na-ion batteries operate through a process called intercalation, where ions are stored and exchanged between two chemically different electrodes. In contrast, co-intercalation, a process in which both ions and ...
Jul 21, 2025
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Machine learning & AI

AI vision, reinvented: Vision-language models gain clearer sight through synthetic training data
In the race to develop AI that understands complex images like financial forecasts, medical diagrams and nutrition labels—essential for AI to operate independently in everyday settings—closed-source systems like ChatGPT ...
Jul 21, 2025
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Computer Sciences

AI models learn to split up tasks, slashing wait times for complex prompts
As large language models (LLMs) like ChatGPT continue to advance, user expectations of them keep growing, including with respect to how quickly they can respond to our increasingly intricate prompts requesting answers to ...
Jul 21, 2025
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Computer Sciences

Probing AI 'thoughts' reveals models use tree-like math to track shifting information
Let's say you're reading a story, or playing a game of chess. You may not have noticed, but each step of the way, your mind kept track of how the situation (or "state of the world") was changing. You can imagine this as a ...
Jul 21, 2025
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Hardware

Scalable transformer accelerator enables on-device execution of large language models
Large language models (LLMs) like BERT and GPT are driving major advances in artificial intelligence, but their size and complexity typically require powerful servers and cloud infrastructure. Running these models directly ...
Jul 21, 2025
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Security

What to know about a vulnerability being exploited on Microsoft SharePoint servers
Microsoft has issued an emergency fix to close off a vulnerability in Microsoft's widely-used SharePoint software that hackers have exploited to carry out widespread attacks on businesses and at least some U.S. government ...
Jul 21, 2025
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Computer Sciences

Platform can make machine learning more transparent and accessible
What began as a Ph.D. project has grown into a website with 120,000 unique visitors each year. With the platform OpenML, researcher Jan van Rijn is contributing to open science, aiming to make machine learning more transparent, ...
Jul 21, 2025
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Engineering

Direct electrolysis systems turns waste alkaline water into clean hydrogen
Dr. Sung Mook Choi and his research team at the Energy & Environmental Materials Research Division of the Korea Institute of Materials Science (KIMS) have successfully developed a highly durable non-precious metal-based hydrogen ...
Jul 21, 2025
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Computer Sciences

New AI method boosts reasoning and planning efficiency in diffusion models
Diffusion models are widely used in many AI applications, but research on efficient inference-time scalability, particularly for reasoning and planning (known as System 2 abilities) has been lacking. In response, a research ...
Jul 21, 2025
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Machine learning & AI

Democratizing AI-powered sentiment analysis
Artificial intelligence is accelerating at breakneck speed, with larger models dominating the scene—more parameters, more data, more power. But here is the real question: Do we really need bigger to be better? We challenged ...