Consumer Electronics
Microsoft working on next-gen Xbox video game console
Xbox president Sarah Bond on Tuesday confirmed that her team is working on a new Xbox video game console.This post was originally published on this site.
Month: June 2025
Autos
New rules may not change dirty and deadly ship recycling business
Mizan Hossain fell 10 meters (33-foot) from the top of a ship he was cutting up on Chittagong beach in Bangladesh—where the majority of the world’s maritime giants meet their end—when the vibrations shook him […]
Consumer Electronics
A new tool predicts when users will reject a new technology
There is something paradoxical about our relationship with technology. We have very high expectations that new technology will solve the greatest challenges of our time. At the same time, we are quite often skeptical about […]
Consumer Electronics
AI ‘reanimations’: Making facsimiles of the dead raises ethical quandaries
Christopher Pelkey was shot and killed in a road range incident in 2021. On May 8, 2025, at the sentencing hearing for his killer, an AI video reconstruction of Pelkey delivered a victim impact statement. […]
Autos
The Middle East is a major flight hub. How do airlines keep passengers safe during conflict?
The Middle East is a region of intense beauty and ancient kingdoms. It has also repeatedly endured periods of geopolitical instability over many centuries.This post was originally published on this site.
Hardware
Wafer-scale accelerators could redefine AI
The promise of a new type of computer chip that could reshape the future of artificial intelligence and be more environmentally friendly is explored in a technology review paper published by UC Riverside engineers in […]
Autos
Simulator optimizes vehicle resources to enable real-time accident prevention in autonomous cars
Through industry–academia collaboration, a joint research team developed an Integrated Network-Computing Load Balancing (“INCL Balancing”) simulator optimized for next-generation 6G services. This is the world’s first research project to implement a load-balancing simulator that integrates […]
Consumer Electronics
‘Yes, in my back yard’—most people who live near large-scale solar projects are happy to have more built nearby
Would you like to live next door to a solar farm? Traditionally, it’s been thought that although people like the idea of renewable energy plants, they don’t want them close by. Now, research investigating how […]
Consumer Electronics
Emojis bring facial expressions and hand gestures back into our conversations
The first emojis can be traced back to the late 1980s, but it was not until 2011 that they became a part of our everyday lives. That was when Apple, followed by other tech companies, […]
Hardware
Tiny receiver chip uses stacked capacitors to block interference in 5G IoT devices
MIT researchers have designed a compact, low-power receiver for 5G-compatible smart devices that is about 30 times more resilient to a certain type of interference than some traditional wireless receivers.This post was originally published on […]