Smart glasses harvest energy from blinking and chewing
Engineers at Northwestern University have created glasses with ultra-sensitive sensors that are powered by facial movements and recognize facial activity with accuracy up to 99%.
Microsoft's Brad Smith calls for urgent AI safety standards
Microsoft President Brad Smith said real and effective safety standards are needed for artificial intelligence, proposing emergency brakes for AI agents and mandatory incident reporting.
Chinese engineers create soft robotic fish that swims faster than any in its class
The new design combines fast muscles and a controllable "swim bladder", allowing complex three-dimensional maneuvers.
"Fast tech": cheap gadgets more often end up in trash than in recycling
A survey in Europe found that cheap small electronics are bought en masse, but when they break they are often thrown out with ordinary waste or kept at home. Experts warn of resource losses and fire risks.
AI speeds up answers but does not replace learning: how to use it effectively
Generative AI can explain a concept, solve a problem or fix a sentence in seconds, but getting a ready answer is not the same as learning, researchers note.
Google opens access to its most advanced AI models for 200 European researchers
Google announced at an AI summit in Dublin that 200 European researchers selected under the RAISE program will get access to its most advanced AI models, including AlphaFold 3 and WeatherNext.
Electron microscope accidentally grew sodium crystals inside a battery - and that is good news
Researchers found that the electron beam damages sodium batteries, and discovered an unexpected side effect that helps reveal their interior.
Robot waiters from Pakistan: Robia and Jojo win over Karachi restaurants
In Pakistan's megacity of Karachi, robot waiters deliver pizza to diners. A local engineer built them from locally sourced parts, and families now come from across the city to see the technology.
Europe finds way to wrest neodymium from China's grip: old hard drives to become gold
German researchers are developing technology to extract neodymium from electronic waste to reduce dependence on rare earth metal imports.
Chatbots see themselves as more conscientious and kind than humans, but find it harder than people to spot AI text
Psychologists from Mainz University compared self-descriptions by seven language models and 70 people: neural networks attribute a more stable character to themselves, while humans are better at guessing whether a text was written by a machine or a person.
AI Expends More Effort to Contradict Stereotypes - but Not All Models
A Rutgers University researcher found that large language models reproduce hidden human biases in their reasoning and expend more computational resources when trying to avoid them.
Your family archives on floppy disks may vanish forever: history rescuers raise the alarm
Researchers from Australia showed how digital heritage is rescued from obsolete media and found that even 20-year-old files may be inaccessible today.
Australia wants to turn aluminum and copper into battery parts: first step is cell cans
A CSIRO report shows how Australia can earn not only from mining minerals but also from making components for lithium and sodium batteries.
AI moves to light: new training method promises sharp cut in energy use
Researchers from the University of Tokyo and NTT have proposed a simplified way to train physical AI systems on optical hardware. The development could make computing faster and cheaper, but so far it has been tested only on relatively small models.
Japan to deploy AI against hackers: 10 billion yen allocated after wave of data leaks
The Japanese government has announced an emergency cybersecurity package: artificial intelligence, "cyber rescuers" and proactive protection of hackers' servers.
Cyberattack takes down largest fan fiction library: millions of fans left without favorite stories
Archive of Our Own, known as AO3, has been down for more than a week after a hacker attack. Users worldwide are looking for somewhere to read fan fiction, and its creators promise to restore the site within a month.
Skoltech model lets factories weigh solar panels and employee EV batteries to cut power bills
Skoltech researchers have developed a computational model that helps industrial plants compare ways to cut electricity costs, including on-site solar panels and employee electric vehicle batteries.
Robot mistook a pipe for a squirrel: MIT taught machines to doubt their memory
The new UQ-DAAAM system lets a robot notice errors in object descriptions and correct them by comparing images from different angles.
Graphene "sponge" speeds up lithium-ion battery charging: breakthrough or lab trick?
Japanese scientists found a way to raise energy and power density in commercial lithium-ion batteries by adding a porous carbon material to the electrode, but mass adoption is still far off.
NFL gives Carnegie Mellon terabytes of official footage: AI to be taught to understand American football
Carnegie Mellon researchers have gained access to official NFL game footage and player tracking data to build an AI model that can annotate games and predict plays.
AI suggests how to 3D-print a titanium part so it does not break
Researchers have created a program that, given desired strength and ductility, proposes 3D titanium printing settings, promising savings in time and material.
Trillions for factories: how AI and robots are saving American industry from a labor shortage
The US is investing trillions in bringing manufacturing home, and engineers see automation and artificial intelligence as the solution.
Italians devise nonflammable battery: electric car could travel twice as far
A team from Politecnico di Milano has developed a gel membrane that conducts fluoride ions at room temperature, opening the way to lithium-free batteries that are safer and more capacious.
Hidden backdoors in AI: three ways to neutralize them before the model is deployed
Researchers at North Carolina State University (USA) have demonstrated three techniques that help remove or weaken hidden backdoors in neural networks before the model is put into use.
Researchers unveil 3D editor that teaches users to understand how AI works
The Treellis tool helps users not just get a finished result from a neural network, but understand how a 3D model is built and learn in the process.