Thermal management is essential for reducing future heating and cooling energy consumption. Notably, the near-infrared (NIR) component of sunlight is closely associated with heat absorption.
Category: 3. Tech
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Sodium-based nanorods enable smart windows to block heat and save energy
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To explain or not? Online dating experiment shows need for AI transparency depends on user expectation
Artificial intelligence (AI) is said to be a “black box,” with its logic obscured from human understanding—but how much does the average user actually care to know how AI works?
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Analog hardware may solve Internet of Things' speed bumps and bottlenecks
The ubiquity of smart devices—not just phones and watches, but lights, refrigerators, doorbells and more, all constantly recording and transmitting data—is creating massive volumes of digital information that drain energy and slow data…
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Apps for boycotting American products surge to the top of the Danish App Store
European consumers are fighting back against the U.S. following Trump’s threats to take control of Greenland, a Danish territory. As a result, two mobile apps that offer a way to determine if products are made in America, then suggest local…
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Kioxia’s memory is “sold out” for 2026, prolonging a “high-end and expensive phase”
The companies that make RAM and flash memory chips are enjoying record profits because of the AI-induced memory crunch—and they’re also indicating that they don’t expect conditions to…
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Snapchat settles to avoid social media addiction trial
Snapchat on Wednesday confirmed it made a deal to avoid a US civil trial accusing it, along with Meta, TikTok, and YouTube, of addicting young people to social media.
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Exclusive: ChatGPT is driving podcast discovery on Spotify and it’s a big shift
I just opened ChatGPT, asked it to find me podcasts similar to Urdunama, and it created an entire personalized playlist for me. Interestingly, I didn’t have to open the Spotify app. I didn’t go through the algorithmic recommendations…
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Why AI has not led to mass unemployment
People have become used to living with AI fairly quickly. ChatGPT is barely three years old, but has changed the way many of us communicate or deal with large amounts of information.
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Misleading text in the physical world can hijack AI-enabled robots, cybersecurity study shows
As a self-driving car cruises down a street, it uses cameras and sensors to perceive its environment, taking in information on pedestrians, traffic lights, and street signs. Artificial intelligence (AI) then processes that visual information so…
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New heat-shrinking method integrates electronic circuits on irregular shapes
Most electronics are built on flat, stiff boards, which makes it incredibly difficult to fit them onto curved and irregular shapes we find in the real world, such as human limbs or curved aircraft wings. While flexible electronics have made some…
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