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Month: April 2025

Internet

Judge strikes down an Ohio law limiting kids’ use of social media as unconstitutional

April 17, 2025 Tech Xplore

A federal judge permanently struck down an Ohio law on Thursday that would have required children and teens under 16 to get parental consent to use social media apps.This article was originally published on this […]

Technology

Living fungus-based building material repairs itself for over a month

April 16, 2025 Tech Xplore

Engineers have developed a building material that uses the root-like mycelium of a fungus and bacteria cells. Their results, published in Cell Reports Physical Science, show that this material—which is manufactured with living cells at […]

Technology

A step toward harnessing clean energy from falling rainwater

April 16, 2025 Tech Xplore

When two materials come into contact, charged entities on their surfaces get a little nudge. This is how rubbing a balloon on the skin creates static electricity. Likewise, water flowing over some surfaces can gain […]

Technology

Mimosa seed bio-piezoelectric device functions as self-charging supercapacitor with high efficiency

April 16, 2025 Tech Xplore

Most energy generators currently employed within the electronics industry are based on inorganic piezoelectric materials that are not bio-compatible and contribute to the pollution of the environment on Earth. In recent years, some electronics researchers […]

Technology

Self-healing lithium battery stretches, survives punctures and cuts

April 15, 2025 Tech Xplore

A multidisciplinary team at the University of California, Berkeley, the Georgia Institute of Technology and the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology has developed a stretchable, self-healing lithium battery that remains stable after 500 […]

Math

Emotions and levels of threat affect communities’ resilience during extreme events

April 15, 2025 Phys Org

Tightly connected communities tend to be more resilient when facing extreme events such as earthquakes, hurricanes, floods or wildfires, says Jose Ramirez-Marquez, who develops metrics to analyze, quantify and ultimately improve performance of urban systems.This […]

Technology

Ambisonics algorithm helps create rich virtual soundscapes using a domed array of loudspeakers

April 15, 2025 Tech Xplore

Surround-sound speakers can immerse you in a multimedia experience, but what if there was a speaker that could completely re-create a three-dimensional soundscape?This article was originally published on this website.

Computers

Training LLMs to self-detoxify their language

April 15, 2025 Tech Xplore

As we mature from childhood, our vocabulary—as well as the ways we use it—grows, and our experiences become richer, allowing us to think, reason, and interact with others with specificity and intention. Accordingly, our word […]

Technology

Photonic computing needs more nonlinearity: Acoustics can help

April 14, 2025 Tech Xplore

Neural networks are one typical structure on which artificial intelligence can be based. The term “neural” describes their learning ability, which to some extent mimics the functioning of neurons in our brains. To be able […]

Computers

Over-training large language models may make them harder to fine-tune

April 14, 2025 Tech Xplore

A small team of AI researchers from Carnegie Mellon University, Stanford University, Harvard University and Princeton University, all in the U.S., has found that if large language models are over-trained, it might make them harder […]

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