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Electronics & Semiconductors
Researchers demonstrate modular approach for building scalable quantum computers
What do children's building blocks and quantum computing have in common? The answer is modularity.
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Computer Sciences
New reconfigurable memristor-based system enables in-memory data sorting
Organizing data in a specific order, also known as sorting, is a central computing operation performed by a wide range of systems. Conventional hardware systems rely on separate components to store and sort data, which limits ...
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AI meets antiquity: Ancient historian tests DeepMind's transformative new model
A University of Warwick epigraphy expert has collaborated with Google DeepMind to evaluate "Aeneas," an AI model that reimagines Roman inscriptions.
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New open-source tool makes complex data understandable
Tabular data is at the heart of scientific analysis—whether in medicine, the social sciences, or even archaeology. Making it comprehensible and usable is often a tedious task, especially when the data is extensive or complex. ...
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New transfer printing method creates safer, longer-lasting lithium-metal batteries
A research team in South Korea has developed a breakthrough transfer printing technology that forms protective thin layers on lithium metal surfaces—an innovation poised to solve the long-standing dendrite issue plaguing ...
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Security

Watermarks offer no defense against deepfakes, study suggests
New research from the University of Waterloo's Cybersecurity and Privacy Institute demonstrates that any artificial intelligence (AI) image watermark can be removed, without the attacker needing to know the design of the ...
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Robotics

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 ...
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.
Jul 22, 2025
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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?
Jul 22, 2025
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Computer Sciences

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.
Jul 22, 2025
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Computer Sciences

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, ...
Jul 22, 2025
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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 ...
Jul 22, 2025
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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, ...
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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