The fungus has been traditionally used as a fire starter.
A fungus called tinder fungus that grows on the bark of rotting beech and birch trees has been used as a fire starter for a long time, but it may just have a new use: the creation of plastics.
Researchers at the VTT Technical Research Centre of Finland proceeded to analyze the internal structure of the fungus, formally called Fomes fomentarius, to understand its strong yet lightweight consistency.
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The devices would not need batteries because they can harvest power from LTE signals instead.
Radio-frequency identification (RFID) uses electromagnetic fields to automatically identify and track tags attached to objects. This is a feature that would allow you to, for instance, know everything that is in your fridge and when it expires.
A new technology developed by engineers at the University of California San Diego can allow that possibility, according to a press release published by the institution on Tuesday.
The innovation is the first backscatter integrated circuit that can enable wireless communication and battery-less operation coming from a single mobile device.
In addition to queueing up songs, it will provide insightful commentary too.
Music streaming service Spotify is the latest tech company to launch an artificial intelligence (AI)-powered product. Dubbed DJ, the service was launched for users in the U.S. and Canada on Wednesday, a company press release said.
Personalized suggestions are what Spotify is known for. The company has used machine learning to understand music, its users, and their preferences and looked to match them (pun intended) successfully. At a time when companies are keen to use generative AI models in their products, Spotify too has jumped into the fray.
The German company will launch its operating system by the mid of this decade.
German luxury and commercial vehicle brand, Mercedes Benz, has announced its software partnership with Google to offer “super-computer-like” navigation and other services in every car, Reuters.
Mercedes’ plans for the future
Mercedes’ partnership with Google follows the route that conventional carmakers such as Ford, Renault, Nissan, and General Motors have taken to add Google’s suite of services to their cars. This partnership allows users to tap into Google’s Maps, Assitant, and other services and use traffic information to determine the best routes to reach their destination.
The transient electronic bandage reduces inflammation, and dissolves into your body after use.
Northwestern scientists have created a groundbreaking medical device with the potential to revolutionize healing: an electrotherapy patch that accelerates wound recovery and safely self-dissolves when no longer necessary.
Cost-effective solution for closing wounds.
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A precise replica of the patient’s heart is created as a soft, flexible shell.
MIT engineers’ newly developed robotic heart will help doctors adjust therapies to individuals’ unique heart structures and functions. The personalized 3D-printed heart can control and imitate the patient’s capacity to pump blood.
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As explained by MIT, the procedure begins with the researchers converting medical images of a patient’s heart into a three-dimensional computer model, which they then 3D print with a polymer-based ink.
U.S. Senator Bernie Sanders has asked for robots to be taxed for taking over human jobs in his new book titled “It’s OK To Be Mad About Capitalism.”
The longest independent senator in U.S history argues for the adoption of a “robot tax” to mitigate the impact of automation on human workers, according to the book released on Tuesday.
The language model could command robot arms, drones, and home assistant robots.
Imagine a scenario in which you can directly communicate with robots, enabling them to complete various tasks for you. To achieve this, Microsoft has outlined its plans to partner with OpenAI to develop ChatGPT’s capabilities to control robots. The software giant used the chatbot and “controlled multiple platforms such as robot arms, drones, and home assistant robots intuitively with language,” the company wrote in a blog post.
Robots still rely heavily on hand-written codes to perform their tasks, while humans find spoken language the most intuitive way to communicate.
Productivity app Notion has started charging customers for its recently introduced AI features. The move potentially paves the way for companies such as Microsoft to start charging extra fees for AI assistants.
Notion offered the AI assistant as part of a “private alpha” earlier this year. The feature allows users to invoke the AI to perform tasks such as autocompleting passages of text, brainstorming ideas, creating summaries of documents or simply fixing the spelling and grammar (which has suddenly become an ‘AI’ task in several. modern apps).
Notion charges users up to $10 per month to use its AI assistant. Are the days of free AI tools coming to an end?
Microsoft’s Bing AI chatbot history dates back at least six years, with Sydney first appearing in 2021.
Microsoft’s new Bing chatbot AI often refers to itself as Sydney because what you see today in Microsoft’s search engine is the result of years of work to make Bing chatbots a reality. Microsoft first started publicly testing its Sydney chatbot inside Bing in a small number of countries throughout 2021. The testing went largely unnoticed, even after Microsoft made a big bet on bots in 2016. In fact, the origins of the “new Bing” might surprise you.
Sydney is a codename for a chatbot that has been responding to some Bing users since late 2020.
Sydney first appeared in Bing in 2021.
