As industries including coal chemical processing, oil and gas refining, and semiconductor manufacturing undergo technological upgrading, the demand for advanced air filtration technologies and materials has surged—driven by the dual need to safeguard production processes and support environmental sustainability.

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In the run-up to the introduction of accounting standards for the reporting of cryptocurrency, companies took various approaches to disclosing their involvement with the novel exchange medium. Investors had to rely more on contextual narrative explanations about a company's...

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Researchers at The University of Osaka have developed a novel technique to enhance the performance and reliability of silicon carbide (SiC) metal-oxide-semiconductor (MOS) devices, a key component in power electronics. This breakthrough utilizes a unique two-step annealing process involving...

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Researchers at the University of Waterloo have developed an inexpensive device that generates enough electricity to power a calculator using only waste walnut shells and drops of water. Their work is published in the journal Energy & Environmental Materials.

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How will AI affect American workers? There are two major narratives floating around. The "techno-optimist" view is that AI will free humans from boring tasks and create new jobs, while the "techno-pessimist" view is that AI will lead to...

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A NIMS research team has discovered that the fatigue limit of steel is improved by prior cyclic deformation (fatigue) training. Based on this finding, the research team developed a novel pre-fatigue training technique, which successfully doubled the fatigue limit...

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AT&T will spend $23 billion to acquire certain wireless spectrum licenses from EchoStar, a significant expansion of AT&T's low- and mid-band coverage networks.

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Recently, defect detection systems using artificial intelligence (AI) sensor data have been installed in smart factory manufacturing sites. However, when the manufacturing process changes due to machine replacement or variations in temperature, pressure, or speed, existing AI models fail...

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A research team from Skoltech, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, N.M. Emanuel Institute of Biochemical Physics RAS, and other scientific organizations has studied the effect of various types of defects on the mechanical behavior of lead telluride (PbTe)-based thermoelectric...

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Grok is a generative artificial intelligence (genAI) chatbot by xAI that, according to Elon Musk, is "the smartest AI in the world." Grok's latest upgrade is Ani, a porn-enabled anime girlfriend, recently joined by a boyfriend informed by "Twilight"...

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The United Kingdom recently launched a broad system of age verification that requires any platforms that host pornography or other "harmful" content to ensure their users are 18 or older.

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In the 17th century, German astronomer Johannes Kepler figured out the laws of motion that made it possible to accurately predict where our solar system's planets would appear in the sky as they orbit the sun. But it wasn't...

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Fresh off a trade truce with Donald Trump, the EU is back in the US leader's crosshairs after he vowed to punish countries that seek to curb big tech's powers.

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Lithium-ion batteries (LiBs), rechargeable batteries that move lithium ions between the anode (i.e., negative electrode) and cathode (i.e., positive electrode), are used to power most portable electronics on the market today. These batteries have various advantageous properties, including a...

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It's not quite a coach and not quite an essential fitness tool, but Apple's latest foray into the fitness tech world does want to be your "Workout Buddy."

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Google has agreed to pay $30 million to settle a long-running lawsuit by parents and their children claiming its YouTube video app collected data from millions of U.S. kids under 13 so it could target them with ads.

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Perplexity AI on Monday said it will begin paying out millions of dollars to media outlets as part of a new model for sharing search revenue with publishers.

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A study of how three popular artificial intelligence chatbots respond to queries about suicide found that they generally avoid answering questions that pose the highest risk to the user, such as for specific how-to guidance. But they are inconsistent...

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