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USTC Finds a New Way Out for Flexible Electronics

“Flexible electronics generally refer to the electronic devices built on conformable or stretchable substrates. On account of their rapid development in the information era, flexible electronics were thought very highly of and have been applied into various fields including electronic …

Van, Go: Pony.ai Unveils Next-Gen Robotaxi Fleet Built on NVIDIA DRIVE Orin

“High-performance, energy-efficient AI compute platform to be integrated into fleet of Toyota Sienna level 4 autonomous vehicles. Robotaxis are on their way to delivering safer transportation, driving across various landscapes and through starry nights. This week, Silicon Valley-based self-driving startup …

When graphene speaks, scientists can now listen

“Brothers in Rice lab find audio from graphene production contains valuable data It may be true that seeing is believing, but sometimes hearing can be better. Case in point: Two brothers in a Rice University laboratory heard something unusual while …

ZEVA Successfully Completes Historic First Test Flight

“The zero-emissions electric vertical takeoff and landing (eVTOL) aircraft reaches critical milestone, flying untethered in its first series of taxiing tests ZEVA, a pioneer in zero-emission electric vertical takeoff and landing (eVTOL) aircraft transportation, successfully achieved its first untethered, powered …

A 3,400-foot-wide asteroid will make a safe flyby of Earth next week

“A huge asteroid will safely whiz by our planet next week. The asteroid, known as 7482 (1994 PC1), will make its closest approach to our planet on Jan. 18 at 4:51 p.m. EST (2151 GMT), according to a …

Algorithm helps robots avoid obstacles in their path

“If you’ve ever ordered a product from Amazon, chances are that a robot selected your purchase from a shelf, read the barcode and delivered it to the counter for packaging. Hopefully, it didn’t collide with a human worker …

An optical chip improved by light

“At EPFL, a team of scientists created and observed a new physical phenomenon on an optical chip using modified lights. Technology is increasingly moving towards miniaturization and energy efficiency. This also applies to electronic chips. Light, and optics more broadly …

Assessing Perseverance’s Seventh Sample Collection

“On Wednesday, Dec. 29 (sol 306) Perseverance successfully cored and extracted a sample from a Mars rock. Data downlinked after the sampling indicates that coring of the rock the science team nicknamed Issole went smoothly. However, during the transfer of …

Atom by atom: new silicon computer chip technique opens up quantum computing construction possibilities

“Quantum computers could be constructed cheaply and reliably using a new technique perfected by a University of Melbourne-led team that embeds single atoms in silicon wafers, one-by-one, mirroring methods used to build conventional devices, in a process outlined in an …

Computer Model Seeks to Explain the Spread of Misinformation, and Suggest Counter Measures

“It starts with a superspreader, and winds its way through a network of interactions, eventually leaving no one untouched. Those who have been exposed previously may experience little effect when exposed to a different variant. No, it’s not a …