Summary: People are more likely to take third-person photos, like selfies, when their goal is to capture the deeper meaning of an event, but opt for first-person photos when they…
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Robotic seal’s gait may be graceless, but it could help save lives
(A) Bioinspiration from pinnipeds (i.e., seals, sea lions, and walruses) that use fore flippers and body (or hind flipper) for terrestrial locomotion. (B) Pinniped robot in an unactuated pose. Credit:…
Solving computationally complex problems with probabilistic computing
Flowchart and schematic of a probabilistic (p-bit) stochastic nanomagnet network for scalable, energy-efficient computing of combinatorial optimization problems: a giant spin Hall effect (GSHE) layer converts input voltage into a…
A feature selection method for text categorization
Credit: Petr Kratochvil/public domain For text categorization, it is necessary to select a set of features (terms) with high discrimination by using feature selection. In text feature selection, Accuracy2 (ACC2)…
How solid air can spur sustainable development
Credit: International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis The green hydrogen economy is a sustainable alternative to fossil fuels. However, one of the challenges of constructing a global hydrogen economy is…
NYC transit agency ends Twitter alerts, says it’s unreliable
The Twitter application is seen on a digital device, April 25, 2022, in San Diego. Credit: AP Photo/Gregory Bull, File New York City’s Metropolitan Transit Agency, which for 14 years…
US should begin laying the foundation for new and advanced nuclear reactors, says new report
Credit: CC0 Public Domain New and advanced types of nuclear reactors could play an important role in helping the U.S. meet its long-term climate goals, but a range of technical,…
Speedy robo-gripper reflexively organizes cluttered spaces
MIT researchers (from left): Elijah Stanger-Jones, Hongmin Kim, and Andrew SaLoutos have designed a robot gripper that incorporates reflexes to quickly grasp and sort everyday objects. Credit: Jodi Hilton When…
