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Oxford PV, a spin-off from the University of Oxford, says it’s achieved the world record for the most efficient solar panel.

In collaboration with Germany’s Fraunhofer Institute for Solar Energy Systems, the company says its solar panel achieved 25% conversion efficiency – the percentage of solar energy shining on a panel converted into electricity. That’s a big deal compared to the more typical 16–24% in commercial solar panels.

Oxford PV’s secret sauce is perovskite-on-silicon tandem solar cells, which could theoretically hit over 43% efficiency, leaving traditional silicon solar cells with a theoretical limit of less than 30% in the dust. Its record-setting panel cranked out 421 watts over an area of 1.68 square meters. The researchers used standard mass production gear and optimized it for the tandem technology.

All thanks to perovskite solar panel technology.

Pop artist Grimes has teamed up with Silicon Valley startup Curio to create a stuffed toy rocket that can understand and talk to kids, using the same AI technology powering ChatGPT.

The background: In April, X user Roon tweeted a prediction that “every last thing in the future will be animated with intelligence,” including children’s teddy bears. The post caught the eye of Grimes, who has three children with X owner Elon Musk.

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Historians and divers are trying to retrieve prehistoric clues from beneath the waves—but they have to act fast.

Why is Adam the most popular optimizer in Deep Learning? Let’s understand it by diving into its math, and recreating the algorithm.

Soon, photons may be rewriting the rules of computing as we know them.

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Guardian angels.

Film de Wesley Barryet Genre : Science-FictionDurée : 1h24Avec Dudley Manlove, George Milan, Don Doolittle A la suite d’une guerre nucléaire catastrophique, l’humanité a créé une race d’androïdes à la peau bleue pour l’aider à la reconstruction de la civilisation. Bientôt, les robots deviennent plus intelligents et plus humains. Afin d’enrayer leur évolution et de préserver leurs propres règles, un groupe de fanatique appelé “L’ordre de la chair et le sang” est créé. Les robots sont-ils vraiment à considérer comme l’ennemi de l’Homme ou bien sont-ils son dernier espoir?

Chinese tech giant #tencent has predicted that high-performance #computing (HPC), #quantum computing, cloud computing and #EdgeComputing will soon merge.

And it will all come together in one big, happy, hybrid innovation engine.

Plants don’t have eyes or brains. How do they know where light is coming from? New research shows how seedlings “see” with their whole bodies.

A mutant seedling revealed how plant tissues scatter incoming light, allowing plants to sense its direction and move toward it.