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Jan 5, 2024

These AI-powered apps can hear the cause of a cough

Posted by in categories: biotech/medical, mobile phones, robotics/AI

Smartphone apps can differentiate between tuberculosis and other respiratory conditions. It’s part of an AI-driven trend: using sound to diagnose illnesses.

Jan 5, 2024

The race to produce rare earth materials

Posted by in categories: climatology, sustainability

China has dominated the market for rare earth elements, but US scientists and companies are scrambling to catch up.

Abandoning fossil fuels and adopting lower-­carbon technologies are our best options for warding off the accelerating threat of climate change.

Jan 5, 2024

Meet Aloha, a housekeeping humanoid system that can cook and clean

Posted by in category: robotics/AI

The system also allows whole-body teleoperation, enabling simultaneous control of all degrees of freedom, including both arms and the mobile base.


The system builds on Google DeepMind’s Aloha system, emphasizing the importance of mobility and dexterity in the field of robotic learning.

Jan 5, 2024

Harvard’s robot exosuit aids Parkinson’s patients walk without freezing

Posted by in categories: biotech/medical, cyborgs, robotics/AI, wearables

Researchers from Harvard SEAS and Boston University reveal its transformative effects, offering newfound mobility and independence for individuals with this debilitating condition.


The wearable tech successfully eliminates a common symptom called ‘gait freezing’ to restore smooth strides for Parkinson’s disease sufferers.

Jan 5, 2024

LK99 returns: China echoes earlier claim of room temp superconductors

Posted by in category: materials

Researchers claim they have achieved the unachievable – the discovery of a near-room-temperature superconductor.


There’s a new group of scientists who claim to have discovered a near-room-temperature superconductor, a claim that garnered much social media and tech nerds’ attention back in August 2023.

Jan 5, 2024

World’s first autonomous trucking system finalizes scalable design

Posted by in categories: robotics/AI, transportation

Continental and Aurora unveiled a four-year plan for scalable autonomous trucks, emphasizing collaboration, safety, and production readiness by 2027.


Joining forces, Continental and Aurora map out a 4-year journey to autonomous trucking, promising safety, scalability, and production in 2027.

Jan 5, 2024

Experts craft world’s top flexible solar cell for energy generation

Posted by in categories: solar power, sustainability

A team of researchers has achieved a milestone by developing lightweight and highly efficient stretchable solar cells for energy generation in electronic gadgets.

Researchers from the Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST) declare it as the “world’s highest-performing stretchable organic solar cell.”

The development is unique as it utilizes organic material to build the photoactive layer of the solar cell, which turns light into energy.

Jan 5, 2024

Qualcomm unveils cutting-edge XR chipset to compete with Apple Vision Pro

Posted by in categories: computing, electronics

Chip likely designed for Samsung, Google mixed reality headset.


To delve into the technical specifications, Apple’s Vision Pro boasts an impressive resolution of 11.5 million pixels per eye, more than a 4K TV for each eye, with a total resolution of 23 million pixels.

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Jan 5, 2024

X, formerly Twitter users leak Google and Apple AI plans

Posted by in categories: mobile phones, robotics/AI

What’s cooking in the AI labs of Google and Apple?


New rumors claim that Apple’s generative AI technology will be included in Siri not just locally on iPhones, but also integrated into other services. Whereas, Google will upgrade Bard with more ‘advanced’ capabilities.

Jan 5, 2024

Tesla Researcher Demonstrates 100-Year, 4-Million-Mile Battery

Posted by in categories: chemistry, mobile phones, sustainability, transportation

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One of the biggest concerns about EVs is that the batteries will need replacing after a few years, at great expense. After all, your smartphone battery is likely to have seen better days within as little as three years. But a Tesla researcher is getting ready to kick this idea into touch once and for all, after demonstrating batteries that could potentially outlive most human beings.

Tesla enthusiasts are likely to have heard of Jeff Dahn already. He’s a professor at Dalhousie University and has been a research partner with Tesla since 2016. His focus has been to increase the energy density and lifetime of lithium-ion batteries, as well as reducing their cost. Dahn appears to have hit the motherload along with colleagues on his research team. In a paper published in the Journal of the Electrochemical Society, the group claims to have created a battery design that could last 100 years under the right conditions.

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