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Accelerating Deep Learning Research with the Tensor2Tensor Library

“Deep Learning (DL) has enabled the rapid advancement of many useful technologies, such as machine translation, speech recognition and object detection. In the research community, one can find code open-sourced by the authors to help in replicating their results and …

Intelligent underground robot for urban environments is designed

“Participating in the project, which is coordinated by the UC3M Robotics Lab, are researchers from Germany, Greece, Italy and the United Kingdom. Its goal is to develop an intelligent system for the autonomous excavation of small diameter, high gradient tunnels …

New Fast-Charging Flow Battery Aims to Advance the State-of-the-Art in Energy Storage

“Masdar Institute researchers have engineered a novel non-aqueous low-cost flow battery equipped with fast-charging that is able to charge itself in half the time it would normally take, which they believe may enable cheaper and more efficient large-scale renewable energy …

New Femto-Camera with Quadrillion Fractions of a Second Resolution

“Researchers from ITMO University have built a setup for recording holograms of tiny objects like living cells with a femtosecond speed. The new method allows one to reconstruct phase topography of a studied sample according to deformations that emerge in …

Researchers Create 3-D Printed Tensegrity Objects Capable of Dramatic Shape Change

“A team of researchers from the Georgia Institute of Technology has developed a way to use 3-D printers to create objects capable of expanding dramatically that could someday be used in applications ranging from space missions to biomedical devices. The …

The rope-less revolution begins now – first full-scale MULTI goes into operation

“The announcement of MULTI in 2014 was celebrated with a massively popular video. Since then, it has been the subject of widespread interest and recognition, most recently receiving Gold in the category of Transportation & Logistics at the 2017 Edison Awards …

Watch SpaceX Rocket Re-Launch, Kicking Off Double Header

“After a slight delay, a used SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket is scheduled to make its second trip to space today (June 23) to orbit the first communications satellite for Bulgaria. The BulgariaSat-1 launch will mark the Falcon 9’s second …

A 100-year-old physics problem has been solved

“At EPFL, researchers challenge a fundamental law and discover that more electromagnetic energy can be stored in wave-guiding systems than previously thought. The discovery has implications in telecommunications. Working around the fundamental law, they conceived resonant and wave-guiding systems capable …

Laser-targeting A.I. Yields More Mars Science

“Artificial intelligence is changing how we study Mars. A.I. software on NASA’s Curiosity Mars rover has helped it zap dozens of laser targets on the Red Planet this past year, becoming a frequent science tool when the ground …

Latest PIC32 Family Increases Performance While Reducing Power Consumption

“The latest PIC32 microcontroller family from Microchip Technology Inc. (NASDAQ: MCHP) expands Microchip’s eXtreme Low Power (XLP) technology to 32-bit PIC32MX products. The PIC32MX1/2 XLP offers current PIC32MX customers an easy migration path to achieve higher performance at …