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Month: July 2025

Technology

Filters inspired by nose hair and nasal mucus promise cleaner air

July 10, 2025 Tech Xplore

One of the problems of conventional filters used in homes, businesses and public spaces is their poor performance. They rely on weak van der Waals forces to capture particles like dust and pollen, meaning they […]

Technology

Ultrathin clay membrane layers offer low-cost alternative for extracting lithium from water

July 10, 2025 Tech Xplore

Lithium, the lightest metal on the periodic table, plays a pivotal role in modern life. Its low weight and high energy density make it ideal for electric vehicles, cellphones, laptops and military technologies where every […]

Computers

New Chrome extension makes web more accessible for neurodivergent users

July 10, 2025 Tech Xplore

If you find pop-up ads annoying, imagine how distracting they are for a person with heightened sensitivity.This article was originally published on this website.

Internet

‘Stuck in limbo’: Over 90% of X’s Community Notes unpublished, study says

July 10, 2025 Tech Xplore

More than 90 percent of X’s Community Notes—a crowd-sourced verification system popularized by Elon Musk’s platform—are never published, a study said Wednesday, highlighting major limits in its effectiveness as a debunking tool.This article was originally […]

Math

Mathematical model clarifies scaling regimes in Lagrangian turbulence evolution

July 10, 2025 Phys Org

A sneeze. Ocean currents. Smoke. What do these have in common? They’re instances of turbulence: unpredictable, chaotic, uneven fluid flows of fluctuating velocity and pressure. Though ubiquitous in nature, these flows remain somewhat of a […]

Internet

Ad blockers may be showing users more problematic ads, study finds

July 9, 2025 Tech Xplore

Ad blockers, the digital shields that nearly one billion internet users deploy to protect themselves from intrusive advertising, may be inadvertently exposing their users to more problematic content, according to a new study from NYU […]

Math

I’m a statistics professor who became embroiled in the world of online chess drama

July 9, 2025 Phys Org

As a mild-mannered statistics professor, it’s not often that I get contacted directly by the CEO of a multi-million-dollar company, much less regarding allegations of cheating and malfeasance among world champions.This article was originally published […]

Internet

Musk’s AI company scrubs inappropriate posts after Grok chatbot makes antisemitic comments

July 9, 2025 Tech Xplore

Elon Musk’s artificial intelligence company said Wednesday that it’s taking down “inappropriate posts” made by its Grok chatbot, which appeared to include antisemitic comments that praised Adolf Hitler.This article was originally published on this website.

Computers

New open-source language model offers multilingual support and public transparency

July 9, 2025 Tech Xplore

This summer, EPFL and ETH Zurich will release a large language model (LLM) developed on public infrastructure. Trained on the Alps supercomputer at the Swiss National Supercomputing Center (CSCS), the new LLM marks a milestone […]

Computers

Can ChatGPT actually ‘see’ red? New study results are nuanced

July 8, 2025 Tech Xplore

ChatGPT works by analyzing vast amounts of text, identifying patterns and synthesizing them to generate responses to users’ prompts. Color metaphors like “feeling blue” and “seeing red” are commonplace throughout the English language, and therefore […]

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