Cable television (CATV) remains a cornerstone of how national broadcasts and emergency information reach thousands of households. Unfortunately, many older apartment buildings were not built with fiber-optic wiring in mind, making retrofitting with the necessary CATV infrastructure too costly...

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Quantum error correction must detect and correct errors without directly reading the quantum information. Classical low-density parity check (LDPC) codes have a well-established design theory: by choosing how many checks connect to each bit, retaining appropriate randomness, and avoiding...

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Apple is expected to unveil a slew of new and updated devices, including a long-rumored foldable iPhone, when it holds its annual late-summer hardware event Wednesday in Cupertino, California.

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Drier climates are exacerbating an expensive problem for millions of Australians whose homes sit on expansive soils prone to shrinkage cracks, which have already cost insurance companies and individuals billions of dollars in repair costs. A new study by...

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The European Union should force tech giants to make social media safe before children use it instead of banning minors from their platforms, more than 130 groups and experts urged in a letter shared with AFP Tuesday.

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Researchers led by University of Oregon chemist Paul Kempler have identified dissolved iron impurities as the key factor controlling the degradation of alkaline water electrolyzers during power interruptions—a finding that could point toward a fix for one of green...

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Google said Wednesday that it would invest at least 13 billion euros ($15 billion) in digital infrastructure, including data centers to power artificial intelligence models, in Finland over the next two years.

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Apple is unveiling its latest generation of iPhones, widely expected to include a foldable version, on Wednesday at an event headlined by new CEO John Ternus, who took over from Tim Cook on Sept. 1.

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Meta launched on Tuesday a personal artificial intelligence agent, Muse, for people 18 and over who are looking for help with day-to-day tasks like schedules, shopping and, in the company's words, turning "long-term goals into action plans."

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A digital scheduling framework combining machine learning, optimization and blockchain technology could reduce carbon emissions at a lower cost in regional energy systems, according to research in the International Journal of Environment and Pollution. The system cut the marginal...

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In project CONVOLVE, researchers successfully used new chip-design techniques to develop powerful AI computing chips close to where data is generated and used, often referred to as edge computing.

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A working prototype that can see, remember and interact with the world like the human brain could one day underpin smart bionic eyes while using far less energy than today's technologies. The invention from RMIT University combines sensing, memory...

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Researchers in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering of the Faculty of Engineering and the Centre for Advanced Semiconductors and Integrated Circuits (CASIC) at the University of Hong Kong (HKU) have made a breakthrough in brain-inspired computing. In...

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A research team led by principal researcher Sang-Chul Lee of the Division of Nanotechnology at DGIST has developed AI technology that automatically identifies and compensates for user groups whose recommendation performance deteriorates significantly after user data is deleted.

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A joint research team led by Professors Sangyoon Han and Jaesok Yu of the Department of Robotics and Mechatronics Engineering at DGIST has developed the world's first miniature optical ultrasonic sensor, thinner than a human hair, using semiconductor fabrication...

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From smart vacuum cleaners and doorbell cameras to complex medical equipment in hospitals, many devices around us are connected to the internet. But are we adequately protected against the risks this poses? Legal scholar Mattis van 't Schip is...

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A research group comprising Associate Professor Yoshihiro Nakata and Taisei Mogi from the Graduate School of Informatics and Engineering at The University of Electro-Communications (UEC), Japan, and Mari Saito of Sony Corporation has developed MOFU (MOrphing Fluffy Unit), a...

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It has been two decades since Facebook introduced the News Feed—letting loose a world in which algorithms would shape ever more of our lives.

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