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‘Stuck in limbo’: Over 90% of X’s Community Notes unpublished, study says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

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 […]

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 […]

Technology

Novel system turns quantum bottlenecks into breakthroughs

July 8, 2025 Tech Xplore

Quantum computers have operated under a significant limitation: They can run only one program at a time. These million-dollar machines demand exclusive use even for the smallest tasks, leaving much of their expensive and fast-running […]

Computers

Interoperable indoor positioning systems can determine locations of people and objects within buildings

July 8, 2025 Tech Xplore

Maxim Van de Wynckel, a researcher at the WISE lab of the Vrije Universiteit Brussel (VUB), successfully defended his Ph.D. in computer science on 30 June 2025. Over six years, he explored a major challenge […]

Computers

Test-time training could lead to LLMs that are better at complex reasoning

July 8, 2025 Tech Xplore

For all their impressive capabilities, large language models (LLMs) often fall short when given challenging new tasks that require complex reasoning skills.This article was originally published on this website.

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