New AI-Powered App Could Boost Smartphone Battery Life by 30%
New cutting-edge AI technology. A cutting-edge AI invention will be disclosed to technology giants, with the potential to increase smartphone battery life by 30% and…
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Highly-Efficient New Neuromorphic Chip for AI on the Edge
The NeuRRAM chip is the first compute-in-memory chip to demonstrate a wide range of AI applications while using just a small percentage of the energy…
Caltech’s New Optical Switch Could Lead to Ultrafast Signal Processing
Engineers at the California Institute of Technology (Caltech) have developed a switch—one of the most fundamental components of computing—using optical, rather than electronic, components. This…
MIT’s New Analog Synapse Is 1 Million Times Faster Than the Synapses in the Human Brain
New Hardware Delivers Faster Computation for Artificial Intelligence, With Much Less Energy MIT engineers working on “analog deep learning” have found a way to propel…
MIT Discovers Semiconductor That Can Perform Far Better Than Silicon
Researchers from MIT and elsewhere have found a material that can perform much better than silicon. The next step is finding practical and economic ways…
MIT Expert on Powerful Computers and Innovation
Q&A: MIT’s Neil Thompson on Computing Power and Innovation Innovation in many industries has been fueled by rapid increases in the speed and power of…
New Technology Gives AI Human-Like Eyes
The technology might result in highly developed artificial intelligence that can instantaneously understand what it sees and has uses in robotics and self-driving cars. Researchers…
Stronger Security for Smart Devices To Efficiently Protect Against Powerful Hacker Attacks
Engineers demonstrate two security methods that efficiently protect analog-to-digital converters from powerful attacks that aim to steal user data. Researchers are racing against hackers to…
MIT Engineers Build LEGO-Like Reconfigurable Artificial Intelligence Chip
The new AI chip design is stackable and reconfigurable, for swapping out and building on existing sensors and neural network processors. Imagine a more sustainable…
New Technique Dramatically Accelerates Computer Programs Without Fear of Errors
Computer scientists developed a new system that can make computer programs run faster, while guaranteeing accuracy. Researchers have pioneered a technique that can dramatically accelerate…
Breakthrough Takes Us a Step Closer to Real-World Terahertz Technologies
Scientists have discovered a new effect in two-dimensional conductive systems that promises improved performance of terahertz detectors. A recent physics discovery in two-dimensional conductive systems…
On the Road to Cleaner, Greener, and Faster Driving – With Some Help From AI
MIT researchers use artificial intelligence to help autonomous vehicles avoid idling at red lights. No one enjoys waiting at a red light. But signalized intersections…
Ultrafast Computers Are Coming: Laser Bursts Drive Fastest-Ever Logic Gates
Researchers have taken a decisive step toward creating ultrafast computers. A long-standing quest for science and technology has been to create electronics and information processing…
New Organic Transistor Enables Higher Density Circuit Integration for High-Performance Mobile Devices
Construction of multiple logic circuits using only a single transistor. The National Institute for Materials Science (NIMS) and the Tokyo University of Science have succeeded…
Printable, Self-Assembled Logic Circuits Created From Proteins
In a proof-of-concept study, scientists created self-assembled, protein-based circuits that can perform simple logic functions. The work demonstrates that it is feasible to create stable…
Laser Pulses for Ultrafast Signal Processing Could Make Computers a Million Times Faster
Simulating complex scientific models on the computer or processing large volumes of data such as editing video material takes considerable computing power and time. Researchers…
Using Ultrasonic Waves To Charge Underwater and Body-Implanted Electronic Devices
New technology improves the efficiency of wireless energy transfer of ultrasonic waves by triboelectric power generation. Ultrasonic waves have applications in wireless charging of batteries…
Innovative New Magneto-Electric Transistor Could Cut 5% From World’s Digital Energy Budget
Design also poised to save space, retain memory in event of power loss. A new spin on one of the 20th century’s smallest but grandest…
