Dive into the world of advanced robotics as Carnegie Mellon University pioneers a modular robotic system for inspecting and repairing natural gas pipelines.
See how CMU’s wheeled robot helps gas pipeline maintenance, from mapping the hidden pipelines to on-the-spot repairs.
Mastercard has announced that it has developed an in-house generative AI to help combat fraud on its payment processing network.
Instead of relying on textual inputs, Mastercard’s algorithm uses a cardholder’s merchant visit history as a prompt to determine whether a transaction involves a business that the customer would likely visit. The algorithm generates pathways through Mastercard’s network, akin to heat-sensing radar, to provide a score as an answer.
A lower score indicates a behavior that deviates from the cardholder’s usual pattern, while a higher score reflects typical behavior. Mastercard claims that this entire process takes only 50 milliseconds. And, it turns out, the AI appears to be very good at its job.
Bhalla stated that Mastercard’s latest “transaction decisioning” technology could boost financial institutions’ fraud detection rates by an average of 20 percent. However, in certain instances, the technology has improved fraud detection rates by up to 300 percent, according to Bhalla.
NASA has set its sights on sending human crews back to the moon and establishing a permanent base on the lunar surface. The agency wants to return to the moon, build a lunar outpost, and eventually send humans to Mars. But these missions come with risks and challenges.
As humans venture deeper into space and explore other worlds, they face daunting challenges.
How will they survive the harsh and unpredictable environments they encounter? What if meteorites, radiation, or other hazards damage their habitats? Delegating routine tasks to machines could save them time and resources, but how will they make sure these machines are reliable? These are just some pressing questions that must be answered to travel safely and sustainably beyond Earth’s orbit.
The idea of time crystals sparked much controversy and skepticism among physicists, who doubted such a phenomenon could ever be observed.
These ‘photonic time crystals’ can amplify microwave frequencies, but the team that developed them is confident they could work on longer wavelengths too.
SNAP’s 144 gold-coated silicon microneedles, each shorter than a hundredth of an inch, can bypass pain receptors and ensure comfort during prolonged wear.
Engineers from Korea and the United States have developed a wearable patch, which is slated to have the potential to further technologies related to human-machine interaction and healthcare.
Like a Band-Aid, the stretchable microneedle adhesive patch (SNAP) sticks to your skin and detects signals from muscles. In tests, people used it to control robotic exoskeletons better. These machines copy and improve the strength of human muscles and bones.
The collaborative study was led by Jianliang Xiao, an associate professor in the Paul M. Rady Department of Mechanical Engineering at CU Boulder, and Jaewoong Jeong, an associate professor in the School of Electrical Engineering at Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST).
Artemis, a second-gen custom AI silicon
As per Reuters, the chip, dubbed “Artemis,” is the second generation of a custom silicon line that Meta unveiled last year. It could give Meta an edge over its rivals by reducing its reliance on Nvidia’s dominant chips and curbing the soaring costs of running AI applications.
Meta, the world’s largest social media network, has been investing heavily in boosting its computing power to support its ambitious AI vision. It wants to create immersive and interactive experiences for its billions of users across Facebook, Instagram, WhatsApp, and futuristic hardware devices like the Ray-Ban smart glasses.
As Neuralink makes strides, China’s MIIT unveils a tech roadmap, aiming to be the leader in brain-computer interfaces by 2027.
Tech billionaire Elon Musk says his Neuralink company has successfully implanted one of its wireless brain chips in a human for the first time.
Explore the latest breakthrough in photonics technology, propelling 6G wireless communication to unprecedented speeds.
Dive into the world of high data speeds with a photonics-based breakthrough. See how scientists achieved 240 gigabits per second in wireless communication.
Starlab Space has chosen SpaceX to launch the private space station, Starlab, into low-Earth orbit (LEO) in just one flight.
Starlab Space is a transatlantic collaboration between Voyager Space and Airbus.
The announcement reveals that SpaceX’s Starship vehicle would undertake a single mission to transport the entire Starlab before the International Space Station’s (ISS) retirement, scheduled for 2030. However, the company’s release did not specify the launch date of Starlab.
The researchers claim to have achieved 18 percent energy conversion efficiency, trumping all previous achievements, with just a small change.
Researchers at UNIST have used an innovative method to improve the energy efficiency of organic QD solar cells to 18 percent. Previously, it had peaked at 13 percent.
