Google-owned Waymo on Wednesday said it has applied for a permit to start testing its self-driving cars in New York City, a first for the Big Apple.

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Generative artificial intelligence (GenAI) is making its way into courts despite early stumbles, raising questions about how it will influence the legal system and justice itself.

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No matter which questions we ask an AI, the model will come up with an answer. To produce this information—regardless of whether the answer is correct or not—the model uses tokens. Tokens are words or parts of words that...

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Clearing your cookies is not enough to protect your privacy online. New research led by Texas A&M University has found that websites are covertly using browser fingerprinting—a method to uniquely identify a web browser—to track people across browser sessions...

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A new study appearing in PLOS One by a psycholinguist at the University of Kansas explores how ChatGPT, the popular artificial-intelligence chatbot, responded to nonwords.

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Researchers at the University of Massachusetts Amherst have pushed forward the development of computer vision with new, silicon-based hardware that can both capture and process visual data in the analog domain. Their work, described in the journal Nature Communications,...

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When Hurricane Fiona struck Puerto Rico in 2022, it exposed the vulnerabilities of the island's energy infrastructure. Though only a Category 1 storm, Fiona caused a total blackout across the island, leaving residents without power for days to weeks...

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The cement industry produces about 8% of global CO₂ emissions—more than the entire aviation sector worldwide. Researchers at the Paul Scherrer Institute PSI have developed an AI-based model that helps to accelerate the discovery of new cement formulations that...

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The Italian Institute of Technology (IIT) has reached a milestone in humanoid robotics by demonstrating the first flight of iRonCub3, the world's first jet-powered flying humanoid robot specifically designed to operate in real-world environments.

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Fraunhofer IAF is presenting the latest version of its compact integrated quantum magnetometer at World of Quantum in Munich, June 24–27. The diamond-based system is characterized by its robustness, high integration density, and state-of-the-art measurement sensitivity. Thanks to its...

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As electric cars become more common, vulnerable road users are encountering more and more warning signals from them. Now, new research from Chalmers University of Technology in Sweden, shows that one of the most common signal types is very...

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QUT robotics researchers have developed a new robot navigation system that mimics the neural processes of the human brain and uses less than 10% of the energy required by traditional systems.

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Amazon is gearing up to make as many as 10,000 robotaxis annually at a sprawling plant near Silicon Valley as it prepares to challenge self-driving cab leader Waymo. Tesla CEO Elon Musk is also vying to join the autonomous...

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In the United States, tax incentives and infrastructure investments play a role in speeding the adoption of electric vehicles (EV). In a new study, researchers examined the effects of competing government incentives on EV adoption in Washington state by...

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In 2018, when Zhen Lian, then a Ph.D. student at Cornell, started working on a research project about self-driving cars, the technology still seemed like "a futuristic topic," she says. Just five years later, while traveling in Phoenix, she...

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A new type of semitransparent organic solar cell (ST-OSC) with an efficiency of more than 10% has been developed, bringing us closer to a future where windows and mobile display screens could function as invisible power sources.

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A new cement-based paint can cool down the building by sweating off the heat. The cooling paint, named CCP-30, was designed by an international team of researchers and features a nanoparticle-modified porous structure composed of a calcium silicate hydrate...

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The loss of a limb following an injury, accident or disease can greatly reduce quality of life, making it harder for people to engage in daily activities. Yet recent technological advances have opened new exciting possibilities for the development...

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