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A video went viral in India about a month ago appearing to show a vast number of garment workers wearing tiny, head-mounted cameras while they worked in a dreary-looking factory. A widespread hunch was the technology the video depicted was a system for what’s known as egocentric data collection—gathering first-person footage of people in action to train AI models, in order to replace the workers with robots. But it wasn’t totally clear if the video was rea

Illustration of a fiber membrane removing heat from an electronic chip through evaporation. Credit: Tianshi Feng Engineers at the University of California San Diego have developed a new cooling technology that could significantly improve the energy efficiency of data centers and high-powered electronics. The technology features a specially engineered fiber membrane that passively removes heat through evaporation. It offers a promising alternative to tradit

Credit: Pixabay/CC0 Public Domain The first study to use artificial intelligence (AI) technology to generate podcasts about research published in scientific papers has shown the results were so good that half of the papers' authors thought the podcasters were human. In research published in the European Journal of Cardiovascular Nursing (EJCN), researchers led by Professor Philip Moons from the University of Leuven, Belgium, used Google NotebookLM, a perso

NREL researchers are using state-of-the-art nano-CT imaging to reveal microscopic damage and hidden flaws in lithium-ion battery microstructures. Credit: Gregory Cooper/NREL The minerals that power lithium-ion batteries—including lithium, nickel, cobalt, manganese, and graphite—are both highly valuable and difficult to come by. As battery storage capacity across the United States continues to grow, constraints on the mining, refining, and processing of key

Credit: Unsplash/CC0 Public Domain One company offers Bay Area employers artificial intelligence that filters potential hires by combing through 10,000 public online sources looking for references to violence or illegal drugs. Another uses the technology to scan workers' office emails for signs of dissatisfaction or burnout. Others offer AI analysis of workers' every online action in the workplace. As artificial intelligence gives new, powerful tools to em

The autonomous prosthetic hand grasping a bottle using vision and touch sensors. Credit: Kaijie Shi, Xianta Jiang's Lab, Memorial University. The loss of a limb following an injury, accident or disease can greatly reduce quality of life, making it harder for people to engage in daily activities. Yet recent technological advances have opened new exciting possibilities for the development of more comfortable, smarter and intuitive prosthetic limbs, which cou

Andy Jassy, Amazon president and CEO, attends the premiere of "The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power" at The Culver Studios on Monday, Aug. 15, 2022, in Culver City, Calif parts of its business, shuttering stores and slashing 29,000 jobs in an effort to reduce costs. Credit: Photo by Jordan Strauss/Invision/AP, File Amazon CEO Andy Jassy anticipates generative artificial intelligence will reduce its corporate workforce in the next few years as the onli

Credit: Unsplash/CC0 Public Domain In the coming years, artificial intelligence (AI) technologies will doubtlessly proliferate, seeping into most corners of U.S. society and transforming economies around the globe. But don't expect AI to confer a competitive advantage, at least over the long haul, according to a new paper co-authored by University of Utah business scholar Jay Barney. The reason: AI technologies, such as generative chatbots, will be equally

iRonCub3 is the technological evolution of previous prototypes and is based on the latest generation of the iCub humanoid robot (iCub3), developed to be teleoperated. It integrates four jet engines, two mounted on the arms and two on a jetpack attached to the robot's back. Credit: IIT-Istituto Italiano di Tecnologia The Italian Institute of Technology (IIT) has reached a milestone in humanoid robotics by demonstrating the first flight of iRonCub3, the worl

BBCube: Bumpless Build Cube. A bumpless three-dimensional semiconductor integrating technology can address the challenges posed by traditional system-in-package (SiP) approaches. Credit: Institute of Science Tokyo A novel power supply technology for 3D-integrated chips has been developed by employing a three-dimensionally stacked computing architecture consisting of processing units placed directly above stacks of dynamic random access memory. Toward reali

Semantic watermark forgery. The attacker can transfer the watermark from a watermarked reference image requested by Alice (here: the diving cat) into any cover image (here: the moon landing). The obtained image will be detected as watermarked and attributed to Alice by the service provider, eroding the trust in watermark-based detection and attribution of AI-generated content. Credit: arXiv (2024). DOI: 10.48550/arxiv.2412.03283 Images generated by artific

Credit: Unsplash/CC0 Public Domain An AI-driven analysis of widely used textbooks found that only 1% of sentences contained any mention of Asians or Asian Americans—and most of the references were related to war and foreign affairs rather than contributions to society. Despite the instrumental role Asians have played in developing American infrastructure and institutions, they are rarely mentioned in popular U.S. history textbooks, according to a new study

Organelle segmentation on different biology samples by the universal lipid staining and deep learning. Credit: Nature Communications (2025). DOI: 10.1038/s41467-025-57877-5 A breakthrough in imaging technology promises to transform our understanding of the inner workings of living cells, and provide insights into a wide range of diseases. The study, recently published in the journal Nature Communications, unveils an innovative approach that combines super-

This novel system combines machine vision and artificial intelligence to automatically assess the health of individual leaves, serving as a valuable tool for urban greenery monitoring. Credit: Mr. Marc Josep Montagut Marques / Waseda University Urban trees and plants do more than just beautify city landscapes. They purify the air, reduce urban heat islands, provide recreational spaces, and even boost property values. As essential components of sustainable

Credit: CC0 Public Domain Bacteria are the most diverse organisms on Earth, with a number of species that's difficult to quantify. They're also incredibly old Bacteria consist of a single cell. They do not have bones and are not like big animals that leave clear signs in the geological record, which thankful paleontologists can study many millions of years later. This has made it very hard for scientists to establish a timeline of their early evolution. Bu

This image provided by the Allen Institute on April 8, 2025, shows a digital representation of neurons in a section of a mouse's brain, part of a project to create the largest map to date of brain wiring and function, in Seattle, Wash. Credit: Forrest Collman/Allen Institute via AP Thanks to a mouse watching clips from "The Matrix," scientists have created the largest functional map of a brain to date—a diagram of the wiring connecting 84,000 neurons as th

Decode natural resistance against citrus greening disease and Develop AI-designed disease treatment. Credit: Ye Jian's group In a study published in Science, a research team led by Prof. Ye Jian from the Institute of Microbiology of the Chinese Academy of Sciences has identified the first mechanism of citrus resistance to citrus greening disease, or huanglongbing (HLB). Utilizing artificial intelligence (AI), the team has also developed antimicrobial pepti

The good linearity depicted in this plot indicates excellent agreement between manual scoring and fully automated scoring, showcasing the potential of the proposed system. Credit: Michael McGuire / Doshisha University, Japan In today's increasingly interconnected world, language learning has become essential for education, business, and cultural exchange. However, accurately measuring proficiency in language learners is a complex matter. One particularly v

The morphology changes as stem cells progress to cancer cells. Credit: ACS Nano (2025). DOI: 10.1021/acsnano.4c14837 The powerful potential of nanotechnologies and AI to detect oral cancer earlier and more accurately has been revealed by a University of Otago—Ōtākou Whakaihu Waka study published in ACS Nano. Researchers from the Faculty of Dentistry combined atomic force microscopy (AFM) with artificial intelligence (AI) to detect changes in cancer cells a