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Oil and gas wells are dotted off Australia’s shores. They involve huge steel structures fixed firmly to the sea floor, and thousands of kilometers of pipelines.This post was originally published on this site

It’s difficult to talk about artificial intelligence without talking about deepfake porn—a harmful AI byproduct that has been used to target everyone from Taylor Swift to Australian school girls.This post was originally published on this […]

Flaps perform essential jobs. From pumping hearts to revving engines, flaps help fluid flow in one direction. Without them, keeping liquids going in the right direction is challenging to do.This post was originally published on […]

Finding a needle in a haystack is the quintessentially impossible task. But what if new tools could make it straightforwardly achievable? Imagine if, instead of searching through everything by hand, you could portion out small […]

Utility companies in the United States could double electric transmission capacity by 2035 by replacing existing transmission lines with those made from advanced materials, according to a new study published today in the Proceedings of […]

Thermoelectric generators that can convert waste heat to clean energy could soon be as efficient as other renewable energy sources, like solar, according to a team led by Penn State scientists.This post was originally published […]

Google said Wednesday that it had filed a complaint against Microsoft at the European Commission, accusing its rival of “anticompetitive” licensing practices to force customers to use its cloud service.This post was originally published on […]

For years, Nevada has put affordable energy on the back burner. Now, ratepayers are getting burned.This post was originally published on this site

Rajpal Singh sweltered on his routes, delivering hundreds of packages every day for Amazon to homes on twisty dirt roads in the hills and valleys surrounding Lancaster and Palmdale, California. Temperatures in his van commonly […]

Humans can grab a book from a shelf with little obvious thought. But it’s a complex process for the brain that involves planning and navigating around obstacles, like other books or knickknacks. Robotics researchers have […]