Tag: Technology

  • Researchers introduce new algorithm to reduce machine learning time

    Researchers introduce new algorithm to reduce machine learning time

    A research team led by Prof. LI Huiyun from the Shenzhen Institutes of Advanced Technology (SIAT) of the Chinese Academy of Sciences introduced a simple deep reinforcement learning (DRL) algorithm with m-out-of-n bootstrap technique and aggregated multiple deep deterministic policy gradient (DDPG) algorithm structures.

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  • Amazon offers cashierless tech to rival retailers

    Amazon offers cashierless tech to rival retailers

    Amazon on Monday began offering its “just walk out” technology to other retailers in a move aimed at boosting the use of the cashierless store system.

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  • Layered solar cell technology boosts efficiency, affordability

    Layered solar cell technology boosts efficiency, affordability

    The future’s getting brighter for solar power. Researchers from CU Boulder have created a low-cost solar cell with one of the highest power-conversion efficiencies to date, by layering cells and using a unique combination of elements.

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  • More wind, less hot air

    More wind, less hot air

    Predictions about how much wind power will be in place by the year 2040 have been too conservative according to research published in the International Journal of Energy Technology and Policy.

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  • In-sensor computing to speed up machine vision

    In-sensor computing to speed up machine vision

    By applying in-sensor computing of analog data, a team of researchers at Vienna University of Technology’s Institute of Photonics has developed a way to speed up machine vision. In their paper published in the journal Nature, the group describes their design and how well it performed during testing. Yang Chai with Hong Kong Polytechnic University has published a News & Views piece in the same journal issue describing the work by the team.

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  • High energy Li-Ion battery is safer for electric vehicles

    High energy Li-Ion battery is safer for electric vehicles

    A lithium-ion battery that is safe, has high power and can last for 1 million miles has been developed by a team in Penn State’s Battery and Energy Storage Technology (BEST) Center.

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  • GM shows 13 electric vehicles as it tries to run with Tesla

    GM shows 13 electric vehicles as it tries to run with Tesla

    General Motors, trying to refashion itself as a futuristic company with technology to compete against Tesla, rolled out plans Wednesday for 13 new electric vehicles during the next five years.

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  • Collapsible basket technology aims to improve drug discovery, personalized medicine

    Collapsible basket technology aims to improve drug discovery, personalized medicine

    A drug discovery scientist typically screens up to 10,000 compounds in the early stages of developing one FDA approved drug. During this high-throughput screening, candidate compounds are initially tested on cell and tissue samples.

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  • Simplified modelling of application and infrastructure

    Simplified modelling of application and infrastructure

    In recent years, the global market has seen a tremendous rise in utility computing, which serves as the back-end for practically any new technology, methodology or advancement in ICT, from healthcare to aerospace. The industry is entering a new era of heterogeneous, software-defined, high-performance computing environments and brings with it new challenges.

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  • Cyber toolkit a ‘complete package’ for detectives, companies

    Cyber toolkit a ‘complete package’ for detectives, companies

    A growing number of law enforcement agencies from across the world want to use Purdue University technology to help them track down cybercriminals with a toolkit that also can help companies stop insider threats and technology-facilitated abuse.

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