3 d. ago Lawmakers or lawbreakers? Legislature just cracked the foundation of Alaska's independent private sector development engine

Lawmakers or lawbreakers? Legislature just cracked the foundation of Alaska's independent private sector development engine  Must Read Alaska

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5 d. ago Engineers develop intuitive haptic devices for safer remote robot control in industrial settings

A research team has developed a novel haptic device designed to enhance both safety and efficiency for workers in industrial settings. This research was recently published in the journal IEEE Transactions on Industrial Informatics. The team was led by Professor Keehoon Kim and Ph.D. candidate Jaehyun Park from the Department of Mechanical Engineering at POSTECH.

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1 week ago LegoGPT can design stable structures using standard LEGOs from text prompts

A team of engineers and AI specialists at Carnegie Mellon University has developed an AI application that can design stable structures from standard LEGOs using text prompts. In their study published on the arXiv preprint server, the group repurposed a large language model (LLM) created by META to build their new system.

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2 w. ago New chip uses AI to shrink large language models' energy footprint by 50%

Oregon State University College of Engineering researchers have developed a more efficient chip as an antidote to the vast amounts of electricity consumed by large-language-model artificial intelligence applications like Gemini and GPT-4.

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2 w. ago From action movies to urban planning, new method for creating large 3D models of urban areas is faster and cheaper

A research team led by Waterloo Engineering has developed a faster, cheaper way to create large-scale, three-dimensional (3D) computer models of urban areas, technology that could impact fields including urban planning, architectural design and filmmaking.

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2 w. ago Computer scientists create algorithm to protect videos from quantum hacking

Researchers at FIU's College of Engineering and Computing have developed an encryption algorithm to defend videos from attackers with access to the world's most powerful computers.

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4 w. ago Using the skin's electrical conductance to track sweat loss during both physical and mental activities

Over the past decades, electronics engineers have developed a wide range of wearable devices that can be used to track some physiological processes and collect health or fitness-related data. These devices rely on miniature sensors that can pick up different signals, such as heart rate, blood oxygen levels and body temperature.

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