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Technology news

	A strategy to boost the efficiency of perovskite/organic solar cells In recent years, researchers have been experimenting with a wide range of solar cell designs in the hope of facilitating their widespread deployment. Organic solar cells based on perovskite materials have been found to exhibit various advantages over conventional solar cell designs based on conventional silicon, including lower costs of fabrication, greater flexibility and tunability.
	A six-armed robot for precision pollination Over the past decades, dozens of animal species have become extinct, while thousands of others are now at risk of disappearing. Endangered species include various pollinators, including bees and some types of moths, butterflies, and flies.
	An affordable miniature car-like robot to test control and estimation algorithms The development and testing of algorithms for robotics applications typically requires evaluations in both simulated and physical environments. Some algorithms, however, can be difficult to deploy in simple hardware experiments, due to the high costs of robotics hardware or to difficulties associated with setting up this hardware inside robotics labs. Moreover, often developers lack reliable software that would allow them to integrate their algorithms on a specific robotics platform.
	Computer scientists unveil novel attacks on cybersecurity Researchers have found two novel types of attacks that target the conditional branch predictor found in high-end Intel processors, which could be exploited to compromise billions of processors currently in use.
	Analysis of future EV load using real-world data shows major upgrade needed for California in the coming decades A pair of environmental engineers at the University of California, Davis, has found that in order to meet the needs of the growing number of electric vehicles (EV) in that state in the coming decades, California power producers are going to have to produce more electricity and erect more power cables to carry the load to consumer locations.
	Computational workflow engine, matched with robotic platform, used to drive experiments for the first time Computational and experimental methods in materials science are often described as entirely separate affairs. On one side, computer simulations are used to explain and predict the properties of materials, including novel ones that were not yet synthesized. On the other, experiments test the actual behavior of materials in controlled situations and serve to confirm and validate computational predictions.
	Scientists harness the wind as a tool to move objects Researchers have developed a technique to move objects around with a jet of wind. The new approach makes it possible to manipulate objects at a distance and could be integrated into robots to give machines ethereal fingers.
	Scientists are shaking up lithium extraction with a different kind of chemistry When people think of chemistry, the image that typically comes to mind is a variety of colored liquids in beakers, flasks, and test tubes in a lab. But in actual practice, chemistry can involve materials in all states: liquids, gases, and even solids.
	Google plans to invest $2 billion to build data center in northeast Indiana, officials say Google plans to invest $2 billion to build a data center in northeastern Indiana that will help power its artificial intelligence technology and cloud business, company and state officials said Friday.
	Tesla founder Musk visits China as competitors show off new electric vehicles at Beijing auto show Tesla founder and CEO Elon Musk met with a top government leader in the Chinese capital Sunday, just as the nation's carmakers are showing off their latest electric vehicle models at the Beijing auto show.
	As quantum computers advance, encryption methods will need to keep up Imagine the tap of a card that bought you a cup of coffee this morning also let a hacker halfway across the world access your bank account and buy themselves whatever they liked. Now imagine it wasn't a one-off glitch, but it happened all the time: imagine the locks that secure our electronic data suddenly stopped working.
	Cybersecurity researchers spotlight a new ransomware threat—be careful where you upload files You probably know better than to click on links that download unknown files onto your computer. It turns out that uploading files can get you into trouble, too.
	EU says Apple iPad operating system to face stricter rules The EU on Monday said Apple's operating system for iPads must comply with tougher new rules that Brussels is imposing to rein in the world's biggest digital companies.
	Tractor-trailers with no one aboard? The future is near for self-driving trucks on US roads On a three-lane test track along the Monongahela River, an 18-wheel tractor-trailer rounded a curve. No one was on board.
	Just 1,200 square kilometers of land could fulfill Australia's solar and wind energy needs As Australia's rapid renewable energy rollout continues, so too does debate over land use. Nationals Leader David Littleproud, for example, claimed regional areas had reached "saturation point" and cannot cope with more wind and solar farms and transmission lines.
	Initiative encourages computer science students to incorporate ethics into their work Computer science students at the University of Toronto are learning how to incorporate ethical considerations into the design and development of new technologies such as artificial intelligence with the help of a unique undergraduate initiative.
	Researchers use ChatGPT for choreographies with flying robots Prof. Angela Schoellig from the Technical University of Munich (TUM) uses ChatGPT to develop choreographies for swarms of drones to perform along to music. An additional safety filter prevents mid-air collisions. The researcher's results demonstrate the first time that large language models (LLMs) such as ChatGPT can be used in robotics.
	Researchers create verification techniques to increase security in AI and image processing A team of researchers from the Institute IMDEA Software, Universidad Carlos III de Madrid and NEC Laboratories Europe has introduced a novel framework that promises to improve the efficiency and practicality of verifiable computing.
	Tesla's stock leaps on reports of Chinese approval for the company's driving software Shares of Tesla stock rallied Monday after the electric vehicle maker's CEO, Elon Musk, paid a surprise visit to Beijing over the weekend and reportedly won tentative approval for its driving software.
	Financial Times enters ChatGPT content deal The Financial Times on Monday entered into a partnership deal with ChatGPT creator OpenAI that will integrate the news outlet's journalism into its chatbot.
	NASA uses small engine to enhance sustainable jet research Located inside a high-tech NASA laboratory in Cleveland is something you could almost miss at first glance: a small-scale, fully operational jet engine to test new technology that could make aviation more sustainable.
	Electric vehicle drivers can estimate their personalized fuel savings with new Argonne tool A new tool launched by the U.S. Department of Energy's (DOE) Argonne National Laboratory enables drivers to estimate, at the ZIP code level, how much they save on fuel costs by driving a plug-in electric vehicle (either a plug-in hybrid [PHEV] or a battery electric vehicle [BEV]).
	Researchers develop a new way to instruct dance in virtual reality Researchers at Aalto University were looking for better ways to instruct dance choreography in virtual reality. The new WAVE technique they developed will be presented in May at the CHI conference for human-computer interaction research.
	Voice at the wheel: Study introduces an encoder-decoder framework for AI systems Recently, the team led by Professor Xu Chengzhong and Assistant Professor Li Zhenning from the University of Macau's State Key Laboratory of Internet of Things for Smart City unveiled the Context-Aware Visual Grounding Model (CAVG).
	Daimler Truck braces for possible strike in 3 southern US states Around 7,200 workers with Daimler Truck in three southern US states were poised Friday for a potential strike as labor contract talks headed down to the wire.
	Embattled French tech giant Atos says needs more cash Struggling French tech giant Atos said on Monday it needs more cash than previously estimated to stay afloat and welcomes a government offer to acquire company activities linked to national security.
	Philadelphia begins powering City Hall and the airport by a solar array 100 miles away Philadelphia has begun pulling large amounts of power for city-owned buildings from a solar array on farmland near Gettysburg.
	Hackers may have accessed Inquirer subscriber and employee personal data in 2023 cyberattack About 25,500 Philadelphia Inquirer subscribers, employees, former employees, and employees' family members on company benefit plans may have had their personal information exposed in a May cyberattack, Inquirer publisher and chief executive officer Lisa Hughes said April 26.
	Cyberattack strikes Georgia county that was site of 2021 election breach The Georgia county where tech experts copied the state's election software after the 2020 election was hit by a cyberattack in April.
	Jassy, Bezos, other Amazon execs used Signal messaging app, a problem for FTC The Federal Trade Commission wants to know more about how Amazon—and its executives—use the encrypted messaging app Signal.
	Finnair suspends flights to Estonian city over Russian GPS interference Finnair said Monday it was suspending flights to the Estonian city of Tartu for one month due to GPS interference that the Estonian foreign minister labeled a Russian "hybrid attack".
	Tesla wins key China security clearance during Musk visit Tesla received a key security clearance from China during owner Elon Musk's whistlestop visit to the world's biggest electric car market, which wrapped up on Monday.
	China's EV giant BYD misses Q1 revenue estimates Major Chinese electric carmaker BYD reported lower-than-expected revenue for the first quarter of 2024 on Monday, as an aggressive domestic price war and Western regulatory pressure weighed on the company's growth.
	US opens investigation into Ford crashes involving Blue Cruise partially automated driving system Two fatal crashes involving Ford's Blue Cruise partially automated driving system have drawn the attention of U.S. auto safety regulators.
	Deepfake of principal's voice is the latest case of AI being used for harm The most recent criminal case involving artificial intelligence emerged last week from a Maryland high school, where police say a principal was framed as racist by a fake recording of his voice.
	US Supreme Court declines to hear Musk appeal over Tesla posts The US Supreme Court on Monday declined to hear an appeal by Elon Musk of a settlement that requires the billionaire to have some of his social media posts about Tesla pre-approved by a company lawyer.
	How artificial intelligence can transform U.S. energy infrastructure In the face of accelerating climate change, the U.S. aims to reduce the net carbon emissions of its economy to zero by 2050. Achieving this goal will require an unprecedented deployment of clean energy technologies and a significant transformation of the nation's energy infrastructure.
	Fueling the future: Researchers evaluate emissions in the aviation industry A research group led Prof. Fei Wei and Chenxi Zhang in Tsinghua University has published a perspective paper that evaluates the progression from deep-rooted fossil-fuel-dependent technologies to innovative strategies aimed at carbon neutrality, with a specific focus on the formulation of sustainable aviation fuel from CO2.
	Mathematical formulation of hazardous scenarios for automated driving systems A research group including Professor Hasuo Ichiro of the Information Systems Architecture Science Research Division of the National Institute of Informatics, Dr. Waga Masaki, Assistant Professor of the Department of Informatics in the Graduate School of Informatics of Kyoto University and others has mathematically formulated the hazardous scenarios specified in ISO 34502, an international standard that stipulates a framework for the safety assurance of vehicles with automated driving systems as a part of the Exploratory Research for Advanced Technology.

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