New processing technique could make potatoes healthier
Researchers announced early tests of a new potato processing technique designed to make our bodies digest potato starch more slowly. Laboratory demonstrations show that the approach blocks certain digestive enzymes from reaching the potato starch as.....»»
Pictures inside a cell: Researchers develop new tool to provide greater insight into biological processes
A groundbreaking technique developed by researchers affiliated with the USC Michelson Center for Convergent Bioscience presents a new way of gathering and organizing highly detailed information about organic tissues in record time......»»
Imaging technique reveals electronic charges with single-atom resolution
Materials typically conduct electricity or insulate against it—so experimental and theoretical physicists have been captivated by a compound called samarium hexaboride (SmB6) that appears to do both. Numerous studies over the course of 50 years hav.....»»
Scientists measure laser-heated plasma using Doppler weather forecasting technique
Scientists have used a common weather forecasting technique for insights into how powerful lasers turn hunks of solid material into soups of electrically charged particles known as plasmas......»»
Ford joins a US$4.51 billion nickel processing project in Indonesia
US automaker Ford made a battery material investment in Indonesia, a first for the company in Southeast Asia. The US$4.51 billion project is also joined by PT Vale Indonesia and Huayou Cobalt, targeting 120 kilotons of mixed hydroxide precipitate (MH.....»»
Avast hit with multimillion-euro fine for GDPR failure
Unlawfully processing customer data lands Avast with huge fine, several years after it closed down the accountable subsidiary......»»
With 3D processing speeds 900 times faster than GPUs, AI semiconductors assist the metaverse
Recently, a South Korean research team successfully developed an AI semiconductor that can be used in mobile devices and can increase speed and energy efficiency. This result is anticipated to become the basis for increasing the completeness and spre.....»»
This ChatGPT alternative is free, open source, and available now
ColossalChat is a free and open-source alternative to ChatGPT that uses a similar RLHF technique as OpenAI to generate humanlike responses......»»
Manchin vows to sue Biden administration over EV tax credits
The senator doesn't think making powders or wafers counts as "processing." Enlarge / US Senator Joe Manchin (D-W.V.) is a millionaire thanks to coal, gas, and oil interests. He was responsible for rewriting the US electric vehicl.....»»
Sen. Joe Manchin ‘willing to go to court" over EV battery sourcing guidance
Sen. Joe Manchin said at issue is how the U.S. Treasury Department might define key terms such as processing in the tax credit's EV battery sourcing rules that could go against the law's intent of U.S. energy security and reducing dependence on China.....»»
ACM Research talks about new orders, growth opportunities
ACM Research, a leading developer of wafer processing technologies for semiconductor and advanced wafer-level packaging applications, has secured its first purchase order from a major global semiconductor manufacturer based in Europe for its Ultra C.....»»
A robust phase extraction method for overcoming spectrum overlapping in shearography
In the same way as the traditional optical interference technique, shearography obtains object deformation information by obtaining the phase, and the measured object is often dynamic in practical applications, so the spatial carrier method, which ca.....»»
What do the elements sound like?
In chemistry, we have He, Fe and Ca—but what about do, re and mi? Hauntingly beautiful melodies aren't the first things that come to mind when looking at the periodic table of the elements. However, using a technique called data sonification, a rec.....»»
Gordon Moore, Intel co-founder and creator of Moore"s Law, dies aged 94
Mr Moore famously predicted that computer processing power would double every two years......»»
There’s a simpler answer to ‘Oumuamua’s weird orbit: Outgassing hydrogen
‘Oumuamua is "a standard interstellar comet that just experienced heavy processing." Enlarge / Artist's depiction of the interstellar comet 'Oumuamua, as it warmed up in its approach to the Sun and outgassed hydrogen. (credit:.....»»
Unions balk at Biden plan for mineral trade deals with EU, Japan
U.S. labor unions are pushing back on White House efforts to allow European Union and Japanese firms mining and processing critical minerals to tap some of the lucrative subsidies available in the Biden administration's massive climate law, fearing t.....»»
Using chemical exfoliation to produce superconducting tungsten disulfide ink
A team of chemists, engineers, material scientists and physicists from Princeton University, Rutgers University and the University of Regensburg has developed a chemical exfoliation technique to produce single-molecule-thick tungsten disulfide ink. T.....»»
Epic’s new motion-capture animation tech has to be seen to be believed
"MetaHuman Animator" goes from iPhone video to high-fidelity 3D movement in minutes. Enlarge / Would you believe that creating this performance took only minutes of video processing and no human tweaking? (credit: Ninja Theory /.....»»
Detecting face morphing: A simple guide to countering complex identity fraud
Our reliance on face matching for identity verification is being challenged by the emergence of artificial intelligence (AI) and facial morphing technology. This technique involves digitally creating an image which is an average of two people’s fac.....»»
Identifying organic compounds with visible light
Researchers from the Universidad de Santiago de Chile and the University of Notre Dame, working with machine learning, have devised a method to identify organic compounds based on the refractive index at a single optical wavelength. The technique cou.....»»
"Denoising" a noisy ocean: Researchers use machine learning to listen for specific fish sounds
Come mating season, fishes off the California coast sing songs of love in the evenings and before sunrise. They vocalize not so much as lone crooners but in choruses, in some cases loud enough to be heard from land. It's a technique of romance shared.....»»