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Month: May 2025

Technology

Revolutionizing baseball training with AI-simulated pitchers

May 12, 2025 Tech Xplore

Two University of Waterloo alumni are changing Major League Baseball (MLB) with a data-driven pitching simulator that replicates the real experience of batting against a professional pitcher.This article was originally published on this website.

Computers

Software coders hate in-person interruptions, but physiological stress measures tell a different story

May 12, 2025 Tech Xplore

It’s an intimidating prospect to interrupt a software engineer who has achieved a flow state—someone who is completely focused and absorbed in the task at hand. Like anyone, it takes time for coders to reengage […]

Internet

‘Tool for grifters’: AI deepfakes push bogus sexual cures

May 12, 2025 Tech Xplore

Holding an oversized carrot, a brawny, shirtless man promotes a supplement he claims can enlarge male genitalia—one of countless AI-generated videos on TikTok peddling unproven sexual treatments.This article was originally published on this website.

Technology

UK lab promises air-con revolution without polluting gases

May 12, 2025 Tech Xplore

The soft, waxy “solid refrigerant” being investigated in a UK laboratory may not look very exciting, but its unusual properties promise an air-conditioning revolution that could eliminate the need for greenhouse gases.This article was originally […]

Education

Why it’s important to read aloud to your kids—even after they can read themselves

May 10, 2025 Phys Org

Is reading to your kids a bedtime ritual in your home? For many of us, it will be a visceral memory of our own childhoods. Or of the time raising now grown-up children.This article was […]

Technology

AI-powered headphones offer group translation with voice cloning and 3D spatial audio

May 10, 2025 Tech Xplore

Tuochao Chen, a University of Washington doctoral student, recently toured a museum in Mexico. Chen doesn’t speak Spanish, so he ran a translation app on his phone and pointed the microphone at the tour guide. […]

Technology

Warm metalworking turns brittle semiconductors into flexible, high-performance electronic films

May 9, 2025 Tech Xplore

Inorganic semiconductors form the backbone of modern electronics due to their excellent physical properties, including high carrier mobility, thermal stability, and well-defined energy band structures, which enable precise control over electrical conductivity. Unfortunately, their intrinsic […]

Education

Educator offers framework for higher ed to defend racial equity

May 9, 2025 Phys Org

As the nation’s colleges and universities respond to the U.S. Supreme Court’s “race-neutral” admissions mandates and the Trump administration’s efforts to cut funding to campuses with DEI programs, a UC Riverside education professor has offered […]

Internet

India tells X to block over 8,000 accounts

May 9, 2025 Tech Xplore

India has ordered X to block more than 8,000 accounts, the platform said Thursday, adding that it was reluctantly complying with what it described as government-imposed “censorship.”This article was originally published on this website.

Education

Basic research advances science, and can also have broader impacts on modern society

May 8, 2025 Phys Org

It might seem surprising, but federal research funding isn’t just for scientists. A component of many federal grants that support basic research requires that discoveries be shared with nonscientists. This component, referred to as “broader […]

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