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A research team led by Dr. Miloslav Polášek at IOCB Prague has developed a new method of separating the rare earth elements, or lanthanides, which are widely used in the electronic, medical, automotive, and defense industries. The unique method allows metals such as neodymium or dysprosium to be purified from used neodymium magnets. from Technology Business News - Technology News, Technology Companies, Technology Business https://ift.tt/L9J0KAW

As solar energy becomes more affordable and widespread, farmland has emerged as a prime location for large-scale solar development. But with this expansion comes a persistent question: Do nearby property values suffer when solar farms move in? from Technology Business News - Technology News, Technology Companies, Technology Business https://ift.tt/Lb9paek

An international research collaboration has recently uncovered a potential privacy abuse involving Meta and the Russian tech giant Yandex. They found that native Android apps—including Facebook, Instagram, and several Yandex apps such as Maps, Navi, Browser, and Search—silently listen on fixed local ports on mobile devices to de-anonymize users' browsing habits without consent. from Technology Business News - Technology News, Technology Companies, Technology Business https://ift.tt/6IN2V7X

To meet Europe's demand for green hydrogen, governments and the private sector have high hopes for production in Africa. A study led by the Technical University of Munich (TUM) and published in Nature Energy has now shown that the financing costs for production facilities in African countries would be much higher than previously assumed. from Technology Business News - Technology News, Technology Companies, Technology Business https://ift.tt/AmvDINe

Lightweight, powerful lithium-ion batteries are crucial for the transition to electric vehicles, and global demand for lithium is set to grow rapidly over the next 25 years. A new analysis from the University of California, Davis, published May 29 in Nature Sustainability, looks at how new mining operations and battery recycling could meet that demand. Recycling could play a big role in easing supply constraints, the researchers found. from Technology Business News - Technology News, Technology Companies, Technology Business https://ift.tt/NeZEwAH

Google on Tuesday unleashed another wave of artificial intelligence technology to accelerate a year-long makeover of its search engine that is changing the way people get information and curtailing the flow of internet traffic to websites. from Technology Business News - Technology News, Technology Companies, Technology Business https://ift.tt/ZqoMvgd

The hospitality industry can leverage the gender characteristics of service robots to influence customers' decisions, according to new research from a team in the Penn State School of Hospitality Management. from Technology Business News - Technology News, Technology Companies, Technology Business https://ift.tt/9bYHhTi

A research team from the Skoltech AI Center and Samara University have developed a system for automatically separating the stages of production processes from video streams. Industrial cameras will detect deviations in the production process themselves and even prevent accidents. By employing the self-supervised learning approach, the cost of manual data markup can be reduced while the model's stability in real conditions can be increased. The research results are presented in the IEEE Access journal. from Technology Business News - Technology News, Technology Companies, Technology Business https://ift.tt/7wvbjUD

For most countries around the world, sourcing energy entirely from wind, solar, geothermal, and hydropower by 2050 would reduce their energy needs and costs, improve air quality, and help slow climate change, according to a study in Environmental Science & Technology. from Technology Business News - Technology News, Technology Companies, Technology Business https://ift.tt/plTVAt3

A small team of AI researchers from Stanford University and the University of Washington has found a way to train an AI reasoning model for a fraction of the price paid by big corporations that produce widely known products such as ChatGPT. The group has posted a paper on the arXiv preprint server describing their efforts to inexpensively train chatbots and other AI reasoning models. from Technology Business News - Technology News, Technology Companies, Technology Business https://ift.tt/T8xKdUz

In recent years, more than 60 countries have developed strategies to stimulate the market ramp-up of hydrogen, particularly in the industrial sector. However, in 2023, less than 10% of the originally announced green hydrogen production was realized, shows a new study published in the journal Nature Energy. from Technology Business News - Technology News, Technology Companies, Technology Business https://ift.tt/2pvFZjn

The hydrogen economy promises to transform our energy future, but we face significant challenges in realizing its potential—the main one among them is energy storage. For us in South Asia, a region blessed with abundant hydrocarbon basins, the geological storage of hydrogen emerges as a promising solution. from Technology Business News - Technology News, Technology Companies, Technology Business https://ift.tt/mSKI7U4

A team of cybersecurity researchers at Stony Brook University has uncovered a new way for scammers to steal from unsuspecting cryptocurrency users. They have posted a paper to the arXiv preprint server describing the new crypto scam and how users can protect themselves. from Technology Business News - Technology News, Technology Companies, Technology Business https://ift.tt/poUafOd

What does sustainable fashion design have in common with Tetris? For both, an intriguing puzzle awaits, where you must configure unique shapes in a way that fills up the available space. from Technology Business News - Technology News, Technology Companies, Technology Business https://ift.tt/WY5JQe6

While artificial intelligence (AI) bots can serve a legitimate purpose on social media—such as marketing or customer service—some are designed to manipulate public discussion, incite hate speech, spread misinformation or enact fraud and scams. To combat potentially harmful bot activity, some platforms have published policies on using bots and created technical mechanisms to enforce those policies. from Technology Business News - Technology News, Technology Companies, Technology Business https://ift.tt/7xACsVM

Government subsidies for business practices and processes should be approached with caution, even when they seem to be environmentally friendly, writes a group of scientists and economists in this week's Policy Forum in the journal Science. from Technology Business News - Technology News, Technology Companies, Technology Business https://ift.tt/ceJ58al

A new analysis led by a group of college researchers finds the U.S. will fall short of its recently finalized target for reducing vehicle emissions by nearly 15 percent over the next decade because of unrealistic goals for increasing electric-vehicle production. But adding more hybrids to the mix could help. from Technology Business News - Technology News, Technology Companies, Technology Business https://ift.tt/iu3xynw

U.S. auto plants producing battery electric vehicles have required a larger workforce than traditional internal combustion engine plants—a finding that runs counter to early predictions about how EVs would impact the industry. from Technology Business News - Technology News, Technology Companies, Technology Business https://ift.tt/Yw7QvcV

Charging stations for electric vehicles are essential for cleaning up the transportation sector. A new study by MIT researchers suggests they're good for business, too. from Technology Business News - Technology News, Technology Companies, Technology Business https://ift.tt/Dwcyleo

Researchers at the Paul Scherrer Institute PSI have analyzed which regions of the world could produce hydrogen most cost-effectively in order to build an economy based on this alternative energy carrier rather than fossil-fuel based alternatives. from Technology Business News - Technology News, Technology Companies, Technology Business https://ift.tt/nbwZmoV