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Test-time training could lead to LLMs that are bet...
For all their impressive capabilities, large language models (LLMs) often fall short when given challenging new tasks that require complex reasoning skills.
AI personal assistants could buy your groceries an...
If you have always wanted a personal shopping assistant, you may be in luck: The tech industry is creating digital ones that can buy things for you.
AI video becomes more convincing, rattling creativ...
Gone are the days of six-fingered hands or distorted faces—AI-generated video is becoming increasingly convincing, attracting Hollywood, artists, and advertisers, while shaking the foundations of the creative industry.
Low-cost method can remove CO₂ from air using cold...
Researchers at Georgia Tech's School of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering (ChBE) have developed a promising approach for removing carbon dioxide (CO₂) from the atmosphere to help mitigate global warming.
Low-power, nonvolatile RF switch promises energy-e...
A research team affiliated with UNIST has unveiled a new semiconductor device optimized for the next-generation 6G era and autonomous driving, offering low power consumption and nonvolatile operation. This innovative device can also be integrated into variable filter circuits...
AI cloud infrastructure gets faster and greener: N...
The latest generative AI models such as OpenAI's ChatGPT-4 and Google's Gemini 2.5 require not only high memory bandwidth but also large memory capacity. This is why generative AI cloud operating companies like Microsoft and Google purchase hundreds of...
Mass timber could elevate hospital construction: S...
Picture a hospital and you might imagine concrete, stainless steel or plastic. But University of Oregon researchers hope to make wood—often overlooked in health care facilities—more commonplace in those settings.
Predictive model uses pressure data to help reduce...
Water is a resource essential for life, as valuable as it is limited. For this reason, and especially in contexts of water scarcity, preventing it from being wasted is a key objective for those who are responsible for transporting...
Potassium-ion batteries may offer higher energy de...
Potassium-ion batteries could have a higher energy density than sodium-ion batteries. This is important for large-scale energy storage such as for renewable energy.
AI system brings new precision to basketball foul ...
Professional basketball is faster, more physical, and increasingly tactically sophisticated. Even the smallest foul can tilt the balance of a game. Now, research published in the International Journal of Computational Systems Engineering shows how artificial intelligence, specifically machine vision,...
Decoupled electrolysis method paves way for indust...
A recent review in Nature Reviews Clean Technology presents, for the first time, a pathway for scaling up decoupled water electrolysis (DWE) technologies to produce industrial-scale green hydrogen.
AI model transforms blurry, choppy videos into cle...
A research team, led by Professor Jaejun Yoo from the Graduate School of Artificial Intelligence at UNIST has announced the development of an advanced artificial intelligence (AI) model, "BF-STVSR (Bidirectional Flow-based Spatio-Temporal Video Super-Resolution)," capable of simultaneously improving both...
A system for embedding invisible digital informati...
A team of researchers from Universidad Carlos III de Madrid (UC3M), the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) and Adobe Research have presented Imprinto, a system for embedding invisible digital information in printed documents using infrared ink and a special...
Undersea cables are vulnerable to sabotage, but th...
Countries have come to rely on a network of cables and pipes under the sea for their energy and communications. So it has been worrying to read headlines about communications cables being cut and, in one case, an undersea...
Houses made from rice: Kyrgyzstan's eco-friendly r...
It may look like an ordinary building site but Akmatbek Uraimov's new house in Kyrgyzstan is being built with blocks of rice.
Underwater turbine spinning for 6 years off Scotla...
Submerged in about 40 meters (44 yards) of water off Scotland's coast, a turbine has been spinning for more than six years to harness the power of ocean tides for electricity—a durability mark that demonstrates the technology's commercial viability.
'Pylon wars' show why big energy plans need locals...
Thousands of new electricity pylons are to be built across parts of England under the government's plans to decarbonize the electricity. And some people aren't happy.
Stretchable electronics: Conductive polymer optimi...
When aiming for stretchable, health-monitoring, skin-like sensor sheets, materials with demanding properties are required: they need to be flexible, biocompatible, and electrically conductive at the same time.