Category: 3. Tech

Credit: Unsplash/CC0 Public Domain President Joe Biden has issued a sweeping executive order aimed at steering the development of artificial intelligence technologies. It’s the first order of its kind to come out of the federal government directly related to regulating the emerging technology. The new directive provides standards and guidance on a number of focus……

An autonomous drone with the wingspan of an albatross is now trialing cargo restocks for a giant offshore wind farm in the North Sea. Overseen by the Danish wind power company Ørsted, the 128-pound unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV)—roughly the weight of “a large baby giraffe”—is meant to cut down on time and costs, while also…

Credit: Pixabay/CC0 Public Domain Voice speed and interaction style may determine whether a user sees a digital assistant like Alexa or Siri as a helpful partner or something to control, according to a team led by Penn State researchers. The findings reveal insights into the parasocial, or one-sided, relationships that people can form with digital…

Credit: Angewandte Chemie International Edition (2023). DOI: 10.1002/anie.202312147 Formic acid, which can be produced electrochemically from carbon dioxide, is a promising energy carrier. A Chinese research team has now developed a fast-charging hybrid battery system that combines the electrochemical generation of formic acid as an energy carrier with a microbial fuel cell. … Continue Reading…

The sale of its Spanish unit is the second major move by Vodafone’s new chief executive to boost profitability. British mobile phone giant Vodafone announced Tuesday the sale of its Spanish division to investment fund Zegona for up to 5.0 billion euros ($5.3 billion), as part of an ongoing overhaul. “The sale of Vodafone Spain…

The Toyota logo is shown on a dealership in Manchester, N.H., in this Thursday, Aug. 15, 2019, file photo. Toyota will invest an additional $8 billion in the hybrid and electric vehicle battery factory it’s constructing in central North Carolina, more than doubling its prior investments and expected number of new jobs, the company announced…

Credit: Unsplash/CC0 Public Domain In what could be a landmark moment in the world of tech, attorneys general in 41 states and Washington, D.C., are suing Meta for knowingly endangering children and getting them addicted to Facebook and Instagram, despite statements to the contrary. Colorado and California are leading the charge with a joint lawsuit…

There are few things more tedious than the back and forth between you and someone you need to meet. They may say they’re free whenever (me) but when you say a time and date, they wince and say that’s actually the only time they can’t get together (also me).  To make coordinating meetings easier, Google…

BENEATH A CLEAR SKY and a high sun, a regular human eye can see nearly the entire visible color spectrum. Remove direct sunlight, and a reflection offers only a sliver of the rainbow. But despite darkness distorting our points of reference, we can still determine color in shadow. Many factors influence the hues we detect:…

MIT neuroscientists discovered that deep neural networks, while adept at identifying varied presentations of images and sounds, often mistakenly recognize nonsensical stimuli as familiar objects or words, indicating that these models develop unique, idiosyncratic “invariances” unlike human perception. The study also revealed that adversarial training could slightly improve the models’ recognition patterns, suggesting a new…