Jeff Bezos is no longer content with just delivering packages or sending celebrities to the edge of space. His rocket company, Blue Origin, has set its sights on the global internet.
On Wednesday, Blue Origin unveiled TeraWave, a…
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Physicists challenge a 200-year-old law of thermodynamics at the atomic scale
Two physicists at the University of Stuttgart have demonstrated that the Carnot principle, a foundational rule of thermodynamics, does not fully apply at the atomic scale when particles are physically linked (so-called correlated objects). Their…
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The Risk You Can’t See: How AI Reveals What Construction Teams Miss
At the heart of every project, two of the main drivers for success from start to finish are risk assessment and risk reduction.
Whether it’s in the legal office or the field, and anywhere in between, proper follow-through in risk…
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Japan’s new molecule to produce efficient organic thin-film solar cells
Researchers have created a new molecule that naturally forms p/n junctions, structures that are vital for converting sunlight into electricity. The effort by Osaka Metropolitan University scientists offers a promising shortcut to producing more…
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MTA Looks for More Electric Capacity on Commuter Lines
The Metropolitan Transportation Authority has more rail it would like to electrify.
The transit agency put out a request for proposals on a design-build contract along the Metro-North Railroad Hudson line that, among other tasks, will have…
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Metal nanoparticles exist in two places at once, study finds
Researchers from the University of Vienna and the University of Duisburg-Essen showed that metallic nanoparticles made of thousands of sodium atoms still obey the rules of quantum mechanics.
The experiment pushes quantum theory into territory…
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Microsoft launches new AI model for real-world robotic learning
Microsoft has introduced a new artificial intelligence model aimed at pushing robots beyond controlled factory environments. The system, called Rho-alpha, targets one of robotics’ long-standing limitations: the inability to adapt to…
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Water hyacinth detection for autonomous navigation mapping using image segmentation cascaded classifier
Zhou, Z. et al. Application of improved Unet network in the recognition and segmentation of lung CT images in patients with pneumoconiosis. BMC Med. Imaging. 24 (1), https://doi.org/10.1186/s12880-024-01377-3 (2024).
Ortega-Ruíz, M. A., Karabağ,…
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A hierarchical fusion framework for vehicle to grid energy management using predictive intelligence and learning based pricing
Shahriar, S., Al-Ali, A. R., Osman, A. H., Dhou, S. & Nijim, M. Prediction of EV charging behavior using machine learning. IEEE Access. 9, 111576–111586. https://doi.org/10.1109/ACCESS.2021.3103119 (2021).
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Domain-generalized person re-identification via refined neuron dropout and reciprocal-expansion re-ranking
Ye, M. et al. Deep learning for person Re-identification: A survey and outlook. IEEE Trans. Pattern Anal. Mach. Intell., 1–1, (2021).
Nguyen, V. D. et al. Jun., Tackling Domain Shifts in Person Re-Identification: A Survey and Analysis, 2022…
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