Cutting-edge simulations for Industry 4.0

Wolfgang Maaß (left), doctoral research student Hannah Stein and researcher Ankit Agrawal (right) are working with partners from industry and academia to harness the power of quantum computational methods for…

Optimal shipping carton utilization

With the help of the CASTN optimization software, shipping companies can select the optimal carton set for each item and order structure. Credit: Fraunhofer IML Products ordered online are often…

Is the future of open source software at risk due to protestware?

Credit: Pixabay/CC0 Public Domain SMU Associate Professor Christoph Treude examines the foundations for studies on open-source software and protestware. “Software developers don’t develop everything from scratch,” he says. “Just like…

OpenAI’s new generative tool Sora could revolutionize marketing and content creation

Credit: Unsplash/CC0 Public Domain OpenAI’s new generative Sora tool has sparked lively technology discussions over the past week, generating both enthusiasm and concern among fans and critics. Sora is a…

New machine learning method predicts future data patterns to optimize data storage

Credit: CC0 Public Domain Researchers have developed a new machine-learning technique that helps computer systems predict future data patterns and optimize how information gets stored. They found these predictions could…

App lets Indigenous Brazilians connect in own languages

Cristina Quirino Mariano, a member of the Ticuna people, writes a message using the Linklado app in Manaus, northern Brazil. For Indigenous communities in the Brazilian Amazon, getting online is…

New tool will make math-heavy research papers easier to view online

A schematic for creating the SciA11y HTML render from a paper PDF. Starting with the raw two-column PDF on the left, S2ORC [24] is used to extract the title, authors,…

NASA flies drones autonomously for air taxi research

An Alta-8 small Unmanned Aircraft System testbed vehicle flies above NASA’s Langley Research Center in Hampton, Virginia. Flying beyond visual line of sight from observers on the ground required special…

Interoperability is the name of the game in the future of traffic, says researcher

Credit: CC0 Public Domain An F-35 fighter plane has 8 million lines of code. A modern car, by comparison, has hundreds of millions of lines of code. The car is…

When deep learning meets active learning in the era of foundation models