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Soft hybrid material turns motion into power—without toxic lead

November 25, 2025 Tech Xplore

Scientists have developed a new material that converts motion into electricity (piezoelectricity) with greater efficiency and without using toxic lead—paving the way for a new generation of devices that we use in everyday life.This article […]

Technology

Programmable metamaterial can morph into more configurations than there are atoms in the universe

November 25, 2025 Tech Xplore

The Wave Engineering for eXtreme and Intelligent maTErials (We-Xite) lab, led by engineering assistant professor Osama R. Bilal, has developed a reconfigurable metamaterial that can control sound waves—bending them, dampening them, or focusing them—while encoding […]

Technology

New receiver frontend system achieves 108 Gb/s data rate using PAM-8 signals

November 25, 2025 Tech Xplore

High-voltage, higher-order PAM-8 signals are essential to achieve data rates beyond 100 Gb/s, requiring highly linear receivers to maintain excellent signal-to-noise ratios.This article was originally published on this website.

Computers

New model measures how AI sycophancy affects chatbot accuracy and rationality

November 25, 2025 Tech Xplore

If you’ve spent any time with ChatGPT or another AI chatbot, you’ve probably noticed they are intensely, almost overbearingly, agreeable. They apologize, flatter and constantly change their “opinions” to fit yours.This article was originally published […]

Computers

LLMs use grammar shortcuts that undermine reasoning, creating reliability risks

November 25, 2025 Tech Xplore

Large language models (LLMs) sometimes learn the wrong lessons, according to an MIT study. Rather than answering a query based on domain knowledge, an LLM could respond by leveraging grammatical patterns it learned during training. […]

Technology

Stretchable battery uses natural acids and gelatin for greener wearables

November 25, 2025 Tech Xplore

Researchers with McGill’s Trottier Institute for Sustainability in Engineering and Design have developed a stretchable, eco-friendly battery suitable for use in wearable and implantable devices. The battery, which uses citric or lactic acid and gelatin […]

Internet

The avatar in a wheelchair: A call for more diversity in the Metaverse

November 25, 2025 Tech Xplore

A study by the University of Stuttgart, the California State University at Fullerton, and the Max Planck Institute for Intelligent Systems has found that there are benefits to representing one’s real-life disability through an avatar […]

Technology

Soft robots harvest ambient heat for self-sustained motion

November 25, 2025 Tech Xplore

A warm hand is enough to drive motion in tiny Salmonella-inspired robots that harness molecular-level dynamic bonding.This article was originally published on this website.

Internet

Based in US or Nigeria? Musk’s X erupts over location feature

November 25, 2025 Tech Xplore

Elon Musk’s X erupted in uproar after the rollout of a feature revealing an account’s location, exposing what users describe as global troll farms and influence operations on the platform—including in support of Donald Trump.This […]

Computers

Why the long interface? AI systems don’t ‘get’ the joke, research reveals

November 24, 2025 Tech Xplore

Powerful artificial intelligence (AI) systems, like ChatGPT and Gemini, simulate understanding of comedy wordplay, but never really “get the joke,” a new study suggests.This article was originally published on this website.

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