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Intel Acquires Moovit to Accelerate Mobileye’s Mobility-as-a-Service Offering

“Intel Corporation today announced it has acquired Moovit, a mobility-as-a-service (MaaS) solutions company, for approximately $900 million ($840 million net of Intel Capital equity gain). Moovit is known for its urban mobility application that offers travelers around the world the …

Introducing Inkscape 1.0

“Smoother performance, HiDPI support, new & improved Live Path Effects & native macOS app After a little over three years in development, the team is excited to launch the long awaited Inkscape 1.0 into the world. Built with the power of …

LED instead of laser or electron beam: New technology revolutionizes 3D metal printing

“A technology developed at Graz University of Technology uses LED instead of laser sources for the additive manufacturing of metal parts and optimizes 3D metal printing in terms of construction time, metal powder consumption, equipment costs and post-processing effort. Selective …

Light, sound, action: extending the life of acoustic waves on microchips

“Research opens door to low-heat, low-energy, fast internet Microchips without electrons will allow for the invention of data processing systems that don’t overheat, have low energy costs and reduce greenhouse gas emissions. This foundational work will help scientists invent …

Liquid Metal Research Invokes ‘Terminator’ Film — But Much Friendlier

“Watson team uses new lattice material to create models that regain shape after being crushed Pu Zhang likes to compare his team’s research on liquid metals to the Terminator — specifically 1991’s Terminator 2: Judgment Day, in which a …

MediaTek Unveils 5G-Integrated Dimensity 1000+ Chip for Smartphones

“Dimensity 1000+ packs 5G connectivity and gaming, video and power-saving technology enhancements for flagship-grade user experiences MediaTek today announced enhancements to its Dimensity 5G chipset family with the Dimensity 1000+, an enhanced 5G-integrated chip with a number of leading technologies …

New AI Enables Teachers To Rapidly Develop Intelligent Tutoring Systems

“Intelligent tutoring systems have been shown to be effective in helping to teach certain subjects, such as algebra or grammar, but creating these computerized systems is difficult and laborious. Now, researchers at Carnegie Mellon University have shown they can rapidly …

New Princeton study takes superconductivity to the edge

“A discovery that long eluded physicists has been detected in a laboratory at Princeton. A team of physicists detected superconducting currents — the flow of electrons without wasting energy — along the exterior edge of a superconducting material. The finding was published …

New study reveals unexpected softness of bilayer graphene

“In the study, published in the journal Physical Review B, the researchers showed that bilayer graphene, consisting of two layers of graphene, was noticeably softer than both two-dimensional (2D) graphene and three-dimensional (3D) graphite along the stacking direction. This surprising …

New Ultrafast Camera Takes 70 Trillion Pictures Per Second

“Just about everyone has had the experience of blinking while having their picture taken. The camera clicks, your eyes shut, and by the time they open again, the photo is ruined. A new ultrafast camera developed at Caltech, were it …