The warnings are sounding louder and louder: the world is heading towards a desperate shortage of copper. Humans are more dependent than ever on a metal we’ve been using for 10,000 years; new deposits are drying up and the kind of breakthrough technologies that have transformed other commodities have not materialized for copper. So far. …
image: To highlight and encourage more research focused on modeling the devastating impact of climate change, ACM, the Association for Computing Machinery, has established the ACM Gordon Bell Award for Climate Modeling. The new award aims to recognize the innovative contributions of parallel computing to solving the global climate crisis. see After Credit: Association for …
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Photo of a mechanical neural network (MNN). Currently, the system is about the size of a microwave oven, but researchers plan to simplify the design of the MNN so that thousands of arrays can be fabricated at the microscale in 3D arrays for applications. practical materials. Credit: Flexible Research Group at UCLA Engineers at the …
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Check out the on-demand sessions from the Low-Code/No-Code Summit to learn how to successfully innovate and gain efficiency by improving and scaling citizen developers. look now. In 2018, Google CEO Sundar Pichai introduced Google Assistant Duplex at the company’s developer conference. The assistant mimicked realistic and nuanced human speech patterns (complete with “ums” and “ahhs”) …
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Robert Brunner is Associate Dean for Innovation and Director of Disruption at the Gies College of Business at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Brunner spoke with Phil Ciciora, News Bureau Business and Law Editor about the transformative potential of the Metaverse, an immersive 3D environment that seeks to blend the physical and online worlds. …
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This photo taken on Nov. 2, 2022 shows the west entrance of the National Exhibition and Convention Center (Shanghai), the main venue for the fifth China International Import Expo (CIIE), in east China’s Shanghai. (Xinhua/Fang Zhe) SHANGHAI, Nov. 11 (Xinhua) — From a humanoid robot to a virtual reality mining experience, visitors were dazzled by …
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This photo taken on Nov. 2, 2022 shows the west entrance of the National Exhibition and Convention Center (Shanghai), the main venue for the fifth China International Import Expo (CIIE), in Shanghai, eastern China. China. [Photo/Xinhua] SHANGHAI — From a humanoid robot to a virtual reality mining experience, visitors were dazzled by a variety of …
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