Asynchronously Coded Electronic Skin can sense pressure, temperature, and humidity with ultra-high precision and responsiveness.  It can detect touch 1,000 times faster than the human sensory nervous system.  It can be integrated with artificial intelligence to enable high-performance machine-brai

The new deep reinforcement learning approach named DeepCubeA can solve the Rubik’s cube within a few seconds.  The deep learning model can be applied to various other fields, including robotics and natural sciences. Artificial Intelligence (AI) has already proven successful in chess and Go, but m

The new statistical method can detect AI-generated content.  It works by identifying texts that are too predictable rather than just flagging errors in texts.  In the recent decade, the natural language processing community has witnessed the growth of increasingly larger and smarter language mod

MIT researchers have designed an artificial neuron from superconducting nanowires. In theory, a simple circuit of such neurons can work as efficiently as the human brain.  The network can carry out one hundred trillion synaptic operations per second per watt. The most fascinating computing device

Researchers built a new software program to make biological analysis easy.  It processes large datasets automatically and enables interactive visualization, fast and precise alignment, and real-time fusion.  Modern light microscopic methods — such as sample clearing and expansion microscopy — pro

In 2016, the French government invested over $5 million in building a one-kilometer long solar road.  The model has proven to be neither energy-efficient nor economically viable.   The trial is now over, as the road has become cracked and damaged.  The world’s first solar road was opened in Franc

MIT researchers present a simple projection of the impact of climate change on silicon photovoltaic cells’ performance.  On average, the output of the photovoltaic cell decreases by 0.45 percent for every single degree increase in temperature. In the 21st century, two things are going to happen

New Deep Neural Network makes it easier for vehicles to see at night while ensuring other drivers won’t be blinded by the headlight.  It dims individual high beam LEDs, creating glare-free zones as required by traffic patterns.  Although high-beam lamps incorporated into the front headlights incr

The new mathematical model evaluates the probability of failure of links between data centers globally.  It draws inspiration from the financial risk theory.  It can help cloud service providers better utilize their datacenter resources and save millions of dollars.  To keep up with the ever-grow

Researchers use freely propagating electrons to see how light behaves beyond the limitations of wavelength.  They were able to develop a new holographic method that captures nanoscale objects.  It can open new doors for quantum computation.  The concept of the hologram was first discovered in 194

NASA will fund $6 million over the course of 3 years to support the University Leadership Initiative project. The project aims to develop a fully electric aircraft that would release zero carbon dioxide and no other harmful emissions. In order to reduce climate change in this century, it importan

Researchers build the first-of-its-kind device to generate static electricity from falling snow.  It can be integrated with solar panels to obtain continuous power supply in snowy conditions.  It also functions as a self-powered sensor to monitor wind direction and snowfall rate.  In snowfall are

A new type of wood reflects sunlight and radiates away excess heat.  The mechanical strength per weight of this new wood is 3 times stronger than steel.  It could drop a building’s temperature up to 10°C, slashing 60% cooling costs. In the United States, buildings account for nearly 70% of electr

The new 3D convolutional neural network can fill in the sequences between the start and end frame. It uses a latent representation generator to produce a variety of video sequences. Recent advances in artificial neural network architectures and generative adversarial networks have boosted the dev

Microsoft creates new records in the field of conversational artificial intelligence.  They have developed an enhanced version of Multi-Task Deep Neural Network for learning text representations across various natural language understanding tasks.  Robust and universal language representations ar

Developing and optimizing a large neural network can emit as much as 284,000 kilograms of carbon dioxide.  This is equivalent to 5 times the lifetime emission of an average car.  Recent advances in the field of artificial intelligence (AI) have ushered in a new era of large networks trained on ma

A startup named Lumii makes images appear 3D on IDs, labels, packages, and more.  It uses machine learning-inspired algorithms to accurately place tens of millions of ink dots on two sides of a clean film. The design adds motion, depth, as well as chromatic effect to printed materials. Creating 3

Many countries put a lot of their money (in billions) into the space programs. The US has been the leader since 1958 – They spend more than $18 billion per year on the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA). Some people question why the United States spends so much money on space prog

Facebook posts alone can predict diseases like diabetes, depression, anxiety, and psychoses.  Like genomic information, social media content is capable of personalizing health care.  More than 2 billion people share information about their everyday lives over social media platforms, often reveali

The first AI simulator of the Universe is both fast and accurate.  The AI model can simulate a 600 million light-years wide Universe in 30 milliseconds with a relative error of 2.8%.  It’s quite surprising that researchers don’t know how this simulator works under the hood.  To explain the evolut