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Japan is now the fifth nation to make a soft lunar landing. Its Smart Lander for Investigating Moon (Slim) successfully landed on the moon, but its solar panel failed to generate power, posing a challenge. According to the Japan…

I've never understood cryptocurrency, and I'm still a bit baffled that it was really a thing. As far as I understand it (on a very simple level), cryptocurrency mining occurs when the blockchain asks a computer to perform complicated math…

There’s a new way to identify security weaknesses and vulnerabilities to account takeover attacks, where hackers gain unauthorized access to online accounts. According to Dr Luca Arnaboldi, from the University of Birmingham's School of…

The machines malfunction, IDs must be checked for age-restricted products, there are too few store workers there to help, and self-checkout technology is not living up to its promise. It falls severely short. For retailers, it was the…

Moore's Law predicted that the number of transistors on a chip would double every two years. Limitations exist. Today's advanced chips can house nearly 50 billion transistors in a thumbnail's space. Packing more in is more than problematic.…

Battery manufacturer Northvolt manufactures a sodium-ion battery that is competitive with traditional chemistries. The company claims its battery is safer, cheaper, and more sustainable than most batteries on the market containing nickel…

Sphere Entertainment Co. and STMicroelectronics have shared details about their joint effort to develop the world's largest image sensor for the Big Sky camera system. The collaboration aims to push the boundaries of cinematic camera…

Oh oh! Can you imagine what this could mean? Columbia engineers created a new AI that shatters the long-held belief in forensics–that fingerprints from different fingers of the same person are unique. According to the AI effort, they are…

Recently, there's a lot of activity in using biomedical implants in the body, such as in the heart or brain. They enable real-time measurement and regulation of physiological signals, presenting new solutions for diseases like Parkinson's.…

Researchers at the Georgia Institute of Technology created the world’s first functional semiconductor made from graphene, opening the door to a new way of doing electronics. Silicon is reaching its limit due to increasingly faster computing…