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A new AI model is demonstrating an unprecedented ability to anticipate human actions by interpreting visual and contextual cues in real time. Rather than simply reacting to movement, the system reasons about what people are likely to do next. Researchers from the Texas A&M University College...
This holiday season, our AI glasses are truly the gifts that keep on giving — getting smarter and more useful over time. Beginning today, we’re rolling out the v21 software update to bookend an incredible year for our AI glasses. We’re introducing the ability to amplify someone’s voice during a conv...
Sweden has made great progress on its long-standing renewable energy waste issue after recently launching a car park constructed using wind turbine blades. Located in Lund’s fast-growing Brunnshög district, the new Niels Bohr car park is said to be the first facility of its kind in Europe to incorpo...
The microbots have tiny computers, sensors, and actuators. They can sense temperature and swim autonomously. The robots, each the size of a single cell, casually turn circles in a bath of water. Suddenly, their sensors detect a change: Parts of the bath are heating up. The microrobots halt their twi...
Tapping into electric vehicle (EV) batteries as a source of household power could save car owners thousands of dollars and slash carbon dioxide emissions, according to a new study. The study is the first large-scale yet detailed analysis of so-called vehicle-to-home (V2H) charging, an approach that ...
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Models that “think” through problems step by step before providing an answer use considerably more power than older models. It s not news to anyone that there are concerns about AI’s rising energy bill. But a new analysis shows the latest reasoning models are substantially more energy intensive than...
A well-placed window can brighten a room with natural light and offer scenic views of the outside world. They’re also massively inefficient. Buildings consume around 40 percent of society’s energy production, and much of that energy is wasted due to poor insulation in the winter and too much heat re...
Introduced early in Volvo Trucks’ electrification push, the Volvo FL quickly became one of the company’s first medium-duty models available with a fully electric driveline and has since gained broad acceptance among urban transport operators. Its compact footprint is well suited to tight city street...
Engineers in the United States have developed a novel multilayer computer chip with a unique architecture that could help usher in a new era of AI hardware and domestic semiconductor innovation.The team highlighted that in hardware tests and simulations, the new 3D chip outperforms 2D chips by rough...
Researchers have developed a polymer structure inspired by a classic “Chinese lantern” that can change into more than a dozen curved, three-dimensional shapes when it is compressed or twisted. These quick shape transitions can also be triggered remotely with a magnetic field, which makes the design...
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Located in the eastern Chinese city of Ningbo, Geely’s newly established Safety Centre is designed to carry out 27 different categories of testing, covering a wide range of vehicle safety and reliability requirements. According to Li Chuanhai, vice president of Geely Auto, the facility is a strategi...
E. Glen Weyl.Stephanie Mitchell/Harvard Staff Photographer Science & Tech Rethinking — and reframing — superintelligence Microsoft researcher says separating AI from people makes systems dangerous and unproductive Jacob Sweet Harvard Staff Writer December 12, 2025 4 min read The debate over artifici...
China just switched on what may be the world s largest distributed AI supercomputer, and it spans more than 1,243 miles. The country has activated a massive, nationwide optical network that links far-flung data centers so efficiently they can work almost as a single giant computer, according to Scie...
As the Metropolitan Transit Authority moves to a contactless, tap-and-go payment system, "FAREwell, MetroCard" allows visitors to learn more about the history of the long-running fare card...
The legislation mandates that households receiving city rental assistance contribute no more than 30 percent of their income to rent. It reverses an earlier move by the Adams administration to increase that amount for a subset of CityFHEPS voucher holders, an effort to manage costs of the $1.2 billi...
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You don t want to wait until you have an accident or an emergency to buy the right gear for your car. Wolfbox makes a wide variety auto accessories, including dash cam mirrors, tire inflators, and even air blowers to clean the surfaces in your interior. Right now, just about everything Wolfbox offer...
The world’s largest distributed AI computing pool has been activated in China, according to a report. The 1,243-mile-wide computing power pool could achieve 98% of the efficiency of a single data centre.After the distant computing centers were connected, the systems work together almost as efficient...
Germany s bid to build one of the world s most advanced uncrewed solar aircraft has just taken a major leap forward, after the German Aerospace Center (DLR) revealed that HAP-alpha has successfully completed a full suite of ground tests. The sleek, ultra-light, high-performance aircraft, built for l...
A robot inspired by desert tumbleweeds may be the first of a new generation of energy-efficient explorers rolling into future disaster zones. While the Hybrid Energy-efficient Rover Mechanism for Exploration Systems (HERMES) described in the journal Nature Communications recalls the desert ramblers,...
Engineers at the University of Utah have given a bionic hand a mind of its own. By equipping a commercial prosthetic with pressure and proximity sensors and training an AI neural network on natural grasping movements, the team created a hand that grips more intuitively and securely. Study participan...
