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Human rights could address the health and environmental costs of food production

October 14, 2021

Industrially produced food appears to be cheap but is actually very expensive. Recent estimates of the hidden costs of today’s food systems range from US$12 trillion to US$20 trillion annually. These mind-boggling figures include food’s devastating […]

To reduce corporate emissions, CEOs need to be bold risk takers

May 25, 2022

Climate change is widely recognized as one of the most profound challenges ever to face the human race and life on Earth. Among the different factors identified by climate scientists, greenhouse gas emissions — which have […]

Worker shortage? Or poor work conditions? Here’s what’s really vexing Canadian restaurants

October 14, 2021

Restaurant operators across Canada are struggling to find enough staff to run their operations. This labour crisis has been highly publicized by Canadian media as a “labour shortage.” A recent survey by Restaurants Canada found that 80 per […]

AI-based tool creates simple interfaces for virtual and augmented reality

November 13, 2024

A paper published in Proceedings of the 37th Annual ACM Symposium on User Interface Software and Technology, by researchers in [...]
Solving complex problems faster: Innovations in Ising machine technology

November 13, 2024

Computers are essential for solving complex problems in fields such as scheduling, logistics, and route planning, but traditional computers struggle [...]
Video: Using haptic technology to deliver real-time performance feedback

November 13, 2024

Can we ever see too much data? Yes, actually. In certain situations, visual overload can paralyze decision-making. Adding one more [...]
Haptic hardware offers waterfall of immersive experience, could someday aid blind users

November 12, 2024

Increasingly sophisticated computer graphics and spatial 3D sound are combining to make the virtual world of games bigger, badder and [...]
Software package can bypass CPU for more efficient computing

November 11, 2024

Technion Researchers have developed a software package that enables computers to perform processing operations directly in memory, bypassing the CPU. [...]
Innovative transistor for reconfigurable fuzzy logic hardware shows promise for enhanced edge computing

November 6, 2024

Edge computing devices, devices located in proximity to the source of data instead of in large data centers, could perform [...]
Portable light system uses color and texture change to digitize everyday objects

November 6, 2024

When Nikola Tesla predicted we’d have handheld phones that could display videos, photographs, and more, his musings seemed like a [...]
Ultra-low power neuromorphic hardware show promise for energy-efficient AI computation

October 30, 2024

A team including researchers from Seoul National University College of Engineering has developed neuromorphic hardware capable of performing artificial intelligence [...]
Generative AI could generate millions of tons of e-waste by decade’s end, study finds

October 29, 2024

A team of urban environmentalists at the Chinese Academy of Sciences’ Institute of Urban Environment, working with a colleague from [...]
Magnetic RAM-based architecture could pave way for implementing neural networks on edge IoT devices

October 28, 2024

There are, without a doubt, two broad technological fields that have been developing at an increasingly fast pace over the [...]
AI mimics neocortex computations with ‘winner-take-all’ approach

October 25, 2024

Over the past decade or so, computer scientists have developed increasingly advanced computational techniques that can tackle real-world tasks with [...]

First artwork by humanoid robot sells for over $1.0 million

November 8, 2024

A portrait of English mathematician Alan Turing became the first artwork by a humanoid robot to be sold at auction, [...]
Crowdsourcing system aims to map wildfires in seconds

November 7, 2024

The 2023 blaze in Lahaina, Hawaii, which claimed more than 100 lives and burned 6,500 acres of land across Maui, [...]
3D-printed solutions shield electronics from electrostatic discharge

November 7, 2024

Electrostatic discharge (ESD) protection is a significant concern in the chemical and electronics industries. In electronics, ESD often causes integrated [...]
Supersonic microprojectiles reveal new insights into metal bonding

November 7, 2024

Using a custom-built machine to launch microprojectiles at supersonic speeds, Cornell researchers have uncovered new details about how high-speed metallic [...]
Tiny electronic nose rivals animal scent detection

November 7, 2024

Imagine a robot that can detect scents in the air and track down their sources as efficiently as a dog [...]

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