{"@attributes":{"version":"2.0"},"channel":{"title":"Tech Xplore - electronic gadgets, technology advances and research news","link":"https:\/\/techxplore.com\/","language":"en-us","description":"Tech Xplore internet news portal provides the latest news on electronics, technology, and engineering.","item":[{"title":"US gamers getting older as industry reports growth","description":"Video games are having a moment in the United States\u2014but the players are getting older.","link":"https:\/\/techxplore.com\/news\/2026-06-gamers-older-industry-growth.html","category":"Business","pubDate":"Sun, 07 Jun 2026 06:17:42 EDT","guid":"news700031839"},{"title":"Pilot plant uses catalytic process to convert mixed plastic waste into oil","description":"The Catalysis Engineering Group at the University of Amsterdam (UvA) has developed a new robust process for the recycling of mixed plastics waste. A newly developed pilot plant aims to demonstrate how this can be transformed into valuable resources, supporting the transition toward a circular economy. The pilot plant will be put to the test in Spain, processing real municipal plastics waste.","link":"https:\/\/techxplore.com\/news\/2026-06-catalytic-plastic-oil.html","category":"Engineering","pubDate":"Sat, 06 Jun 2026 08:00:03 EDT","guid":"news699720338"},{"title":"China can build humanoids at scale. The hard part is finding enough buyers","description":"Chinese-made humanoid robots are making waves with their ability to do backflips, direct traffic, and even make coffee as the companies developing them seek ways to expand and dominate the market.","link":"https:\/\/techxplore.com\/news\/2026-06-china-humanoids-scale-hard-buyers.html","category":"Robotics","pubDate":"Sat, 06 Jun 2026 07:20:02 EDT","guid":"news699949182"},{"title":"Curbside parking is great for drivers\u2014but terrible for everyone else: Could we get rid of it?","description":"It may seem like it's impossible to find a car park on the street. As a recent Grattan Institute report makes clear, Australia actually has an oversupply of parking, both on streets and in parking lots. Across five of the state capitals, most postcodes have more on-street spaces than there are registered cars.","link":"https:\/\/techxplore.com\/news\/2026-06-curbside-great-drivers-terrible.html","category":"Automotive","pubDate":"Fri, 05 Jun 2026 19:40:01 EDT","guid":"news699859681"},{"title":"Anthropic urges industry coordination to allow for a 'pause' in AI development if risks grow","description":"Anthropic is proposing that the world's top artificial intelligence companies come up with a coordinated way to pause development of advanced AI systems, warning the technology is improving so quickly there's a risk humans would lose control.","link":"https:\/\/techxplore.com\/news\/2026-06-anthropic-urges-industry-ai.html","category":"Machine learning & AI","pubDate":"Fri, 05 Jun 2026 15:40:01 EDT","guid":"news699886503"},{"title":"Semiconductors enter 'multi-tasking' era: New device cuts required components by 75% and quadruples processing speed","description":"Less than two decades after smartphones fit into the palm of our hands, artificial intelligence is now running on devices worn on our wrists. The challenge is that while devices continue to shrink, the amount of data they must process and the number of functions they must perform are growing exponentially. A research team at POSTECH (Pohang University of Science and Technology) has found a promising way to address this contradiction.","link":"https:\/\/techxplore.com\/news\/2026-06-semiconductors-multi-tasking-era-device.html","category":"Electronics & Semiconductors","pubDate":"Fri, 05 Jun 2026 14:40:03 EDT","guid":"news699875022"},{"title":"Grounded in reality, new AI model spots fake images with less training","description":"Artificial intelligence (AI)-generated images have become increasingly more sophisticated than early ones that showed humans with more than five fingers on a hand, making it even harder to determine whether photos are authentic. Now, a team of computer scientists in the McKelvey School of Engineering at Washington University in St. Louis has developed a model that can detect fake images by learning which are real.","link":"https:\/\/techxplore.com\/news\/2026-06-grounded-reality-ai-fake-images.html","category":"Computer Sciences","pubDate":"Fri, 05 Jun 2026 13:00:06 EDT","guid":"news699883022"},{"title":"AI fails classic attention test, with longer word lists triggering dramatic accuracy collapse","description":"Giving AI a classic psychological test reveals an inherent weakness in LLM decision-making abilities. Suketu Patel and colleagues explored how transformer-based machine attention differs from human attention by testing AI models on the \"Stroop task,\" in which words for colors are printed in colored ink, and participants are asked to name the ink color of each word while ignoring its meaning.","link":"https:\/\/techxplore.com\/news\/2026-06-ai-classic-attention-longer-word.html","category":"Computer Sciences","pubDate":"Fri, 05 Jun 2026 12:00:06 EDT","guid":"news699878522"},{"title":"Q&A: How organic glass scintillators could improve nuclear security","description":"As the demand for nuclear security solutions grows, distinguishing a benign medical isotope from a potential threat is critical. Organic glass scintillators can help meet the need for accurate, cost-effective radiation detectors.","link":"https:\/\/techxplore.com\/news\/2026-06-qa-glass-scintillators-nuclear.html","category":"Engineering","pubDate":"Fri, 05 Jun 2026 11:40:04 EDT","guid":"news699877801"},{"title":"Plastic waste yields jet fuel through new process costing as little as $1 per kilogram","description":"Aviation is one of the sectors that contributes most to greenhouse gas emissions and climate change on Earth. One proposed strategy for mitigating or counterbalancing the effects of these emissions is to substitute existing jet fuel with a more sustainable alternative made from plastic waste, another source of pollution on Earth.","link":"https:\/\/techxplore.com\/news\/2026-06-plastic-yields-jet-fuel-kilogram.html","category":"Engineering","pubDate":"Fri, 05 Jun 2026 11:20:05 EDT","guid":"news699873834"},{"title":"New WebAssembly memory layout could stop Heartbleed-style browser attacks with no visible slowdown","description":"Google Earth, Zoom, Twitch.tv or Photoshop\u2014thanks to the WebAssembly standard, many powerful applications now run directly in a browser without installation. However, some of these web apps have serious security vulnerabilities. Researchers from paluno\u2014The Ruhr Institute for Software Technology at the University of Duisburg-Essen\u2014have developed a solution to secure COTS applications by automatically reorganizing their memory.","link":"https:\/\/techxplore.com\/news\/2026-06-webassembly-memory-layout-heartbleed-style.html","category":"Security","pubDate":"Fri, 05 Jun 2026 09:20:01 EDT","guid":"news699869552"},{"title":"Driverless cars are on the rise, and now we may know why they crash","description":"For the first time, new algorithms may be able to automatically explain why some self-driving cars crash\u2014a question crucial to answer as more autonomous vehicles take to the roads. This new approach, developed by researchers at King's College London, reviews past events to explain why specific instances of failure happened, in the hope that this can be used to make improvements in the future.","link":"https:\/\/techxplore.com\/news\/2026-06-driverless-cars.html","category":"Automotive","pubDate":"Fri, 05 Jun 2026 07:40:02 EDT","guid":"news699860153"},{"title":"Australia now has access to Anthropic's Claude Mythos: It may improve cyber safety\u2014but not for everyone","description":"Artificial intelligence (AI) giant Anthropic has expanded access to a highly advanced model deemed too dangerous for public release, including Australia in the select handful of users.","link":"https:\/\/techxplore.com\/news\/2026-06-australia-access-anthropic-claude-mythos.html","category":"Internet","pubDate":"Fri, 05 Jun 2026 07:00:02 EDT","guid":"news699859202"},{"title":"New York state legislature passes one-year data center moratorium","description":"New York's state legislature passed a bill Thursday night that would prevent permits from being issued for the construction of new data centers for a year, potentially the first law of its kind in the United States.","link":"https:\/\/techxplore.com\/news\/2026-06-york-state-legislature-year-center.html","category":"Machine learning & AI","pubDate":"Fri, 05 Jun 2026 04:30:01 EDT","guid":"news699852036"},{"title":"Anthropic calls for pause of global AI development","description":"Artificial intelligence company Anthropic suggested Thursday a global pause on building the most powerful AI systems as the latest models are beginning to show signs they could escape human control.","link":"https:\/\/techxplore.com\/news\/2026-06-anthropic-global-ai.html","category":"Machine learning & AI","pubDate":"Fri, 05 Jun 2026 04:17:00 EDT","guid":"news699851777"},{"title":"Why the electric SUV boom is a problem for climate, health and equity","description":"Governments and car manufacturers sell electric cars as the future of green transport. But a less visible trend is challenging this story: many electric cars are getting bigger.","link":"https:\/\/techxplore.com\/news\/2026-06-electric-suv-boom-problem-climate.html","category":"Energy & Green Tech","pubDate":"Thu, 04 Jun 2026 22:40:03 EDT","guid":"news699797018"},{"title":"Researchers improve efficiency, durability of nickel-based SOECs for electrochemical CO\u2082 conversion","description":"A Korean research team has resolved a major durability issue in solid oxide electrolysis cells (SOECs), a technology that converts carbon dioxide (CO\u2082) into high-value chemical feedstocks. Researchers at the Korea Research Institute of Chemical Technology (KRICT), led by Drs. Min-Chul Kim, Ji Hoon Park, and Jin Hee Lee, developed a new electrolyte interface engineering technology for nickel-based SOECs.","link":"https:\/\/techxplore.com\/news\/2026-06-efficiency-durability-nickel-based-soecs.html","category":"Engineering","pubDate":"Thu, 04 Jun 2026 21:00:05 EDT","guid":"news699795485"},{"title":"From waste wood to load-bearing feature, a simple calculation could change the way we use 'misfit wood'","description":"Urging industry to make better use of wood that is wasted or burned for energy, researchers have released the first structural tests of non-straight, forked, and double-curved roundwood logs used as columns. In his mission to normalize the use of \"misfit wood,\" Aalto University architect and researcher Jaakko Torvinen has shown how standard, business-as-usual calculation methods can predict load-bearing capacity for organically shaped logs.","link":"https:\/\/techxplore.com\/news\/2026-06-wood-feature-simple-misfit.html","category":"Engineering","pubDate":"Thu, 04 Jun 2026 20:00:01 EDT","guid":"news699807121"},{"title":"AI system spots fake reviews by combining text, images and user behavior","description":"Research published in the International Journal of Information and Communication Technology discusses the development of an artificial intelligence system that combines text, images and reviewer behavior to detect and trace fake e-commerce reviews. The system could address the growing challenge faced by online marketplaces as deceptive feedback becomes increasingly sophisticated.","link":"https:\/\/techxplore.com\/news\/2026-06-ai-fake-combining-text-images.html","category":"Internet","pubDate":"Thu, 04 Jun 2026 19:00:03 EDT","guid":"news699795856"},{"title":"Carbon capture gets more flexible: New electrochemical method could lower energy use","description":"Carbon capture is an important climate change mitigation strategy, but it faces technological barriers and can be energy-intensive and expensive. To help make necessary advances in this area, a team of MIT researchers, with support from the MIT Climate and Sustainability Consortium (MCSC), are exploring energy-efficient and scalable alternatives to conventional carbon dioxide (CO2) capture methods.","link":"https:\/\/techxplore.com\/news\/2026-06-carbon-capture-flexible-electrochemical-method.html","category":"Energy & Green Tech","pubDate":"Thu, 04 Jun 2026 17:20:06 EDT","guid":"news699811441"},{"title":"Making LLMs faster and more efficient across multiple languages","description":"Large language models (LLMs), which are the artificial intelligence (AI) systems behind modern chatbots, translation tools, and virtual assistants, have become revolutionary tools worldwide. Companies, governments, schools, and developers now rely on them to serve users across dozens of languages. Unfortunately, as these systems grow more capable and incorporate support for more and more languages, they also become more computationally demanding. Generating responses from large multilingual models not only costs more but also takes significantly more time.","link":"https:\/\/techxplore.com\/news\/2026-06-llms-faster-efficient-multiple-languages.html","category":"Computer Sciences","pubDate":"Thu, 04 Jun 2026 17:20:03 EDT","guid":"news699795928"},{"title":"Trees positioned around a low-rise building can reduce storm wind force on segments by as much as 50%","description":"FIU researchers have found that some of the most common trees in Florida can significantly shield homes from extreme wind, decreasing suction forces applied to critical regions of the roof by as much as 50%. The findings are published in the Journal of Wind Engineering and Industrial Aerodynamics.","link":"https:\/\/techxplore.com\/news\/2026-06-trees-positioned-storm-segments.html","category":"Engineering","pubDate":"Thu, 04 Jun 2026 17:00:05 EDT","guid":"news699809581"},{"title":"Innovative welding filler metals extend the service life of offshore wind turbine towers","description":"Offshore wind turbines consist of numerous welded components and are exposed to extreme loads from wind and waves at sea. These lead to cyclic stresses that particularly affect the weld seams. Until now, these have been considered a critical factor, especially for high-strength steels, since the welding process itself alters the material microstructure and generates harmful tensile residual stresses. For safety reasons, relevant regulations have so far only allowed the lightweight construction potential of these steels to be exploited to a limited extent.","link":"https:\/\/techxplore.com\/news\/2026-06-welding-filler-metals-life-offshore.html","category":"Engineering","pubDate":"Thu, 04 Jun 2026 16:40:10 EDT","guid":"news699808441"},{"title":"AI model predicts building fire spread, redirecting evacuees to safer exits in real time","description":"A fire alarm jolts you from your office desk, and you head for the nearest exit. But what if the closest exit has already been blocked by the fire? Researchers at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) and their colleagues have developed an AI model called Safe Step that can redirect occupants to the safest evacuation route in a fire. Described in the Journal of Building Engineering, the model can be used with electronic displays to show whether an exit is safe to use.","link":"https:\/\/techxplore.com\/news\/2026-06-ai-redirecting-evacuees-safer-exits.html","category":"Engineering","pubDate":"Thu, 04 Jun 2026 16:40:08 EDT","guid":"news699808947"},{"title":"New framework could standardize high-stakes AI in toxicology","description":"A perspective in Frontiers in Artificial Intelligence titled \"Evidence-based AI: from trailblazer to trustblazer?\" introduces a formal discipline called Evidence-based AI that applies the rigorous standards of medicine and toxicology to agentic software systems. The paper was led by Insilica founder and CEO Dr. Thomas Luechtefeld in collaboration with Dr. Thomas Hartung of the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health.","link":"https:\/\/techxplore.com\/news\/2026-06-framework-standardize-high-stakes-ai.html","category":"Machine learning & AI","pubDate":"Thu, 04 Jun 2026 16:20:04 EDT","guid":"news699807781"},{"title":"Stronger security measures are needed as the energy retail sector faces escalating cyber threats","description":"A doctoral dissertation by Mikko Suorsa, to be defended at the University of Vaasa, Finland, reveals that the energy retail sector is an essential yet vulnerable part of the energy industry's value chain and of critical infrastructure. Having received comparatively little attention in cybersecurity efforts, the sector requires strengthened resilience, and the study introduces concrete methods to achieve this. It is one of the first studies to focus specifically on energy retail organizations.","link":"https:\/\/techxplore.com\/news\/2026-06-stronger-energy-retail-sector-escalating.html","category":"Energy & Green Tech","pubDate":"Thu, 04 Jun 2026 15:20:01 EDT","guid":"news699805142"},{"title":"Dust-prone desert of the Southwest may be ideal for solar energy","description":"Solar energy developers eyeing parts of southern New Mexico may have less to worry about than expected when it comes to dust. A new study led by University of Texas at El Paso researchers concludes that photovoltaic panels in Alamogordo\u2014a region battered by frequent dust storms carrying particles from the White Sands gypsum dune field\u2014lose only about 2% to 3% of their power output to dust accumulation, a rate far lower than that of solar facilities in comparable desert regions worldwide.","link":"https:\/\/techxplore.com\/news\/2026-06-prone-southwest-ideal-solar-energy.html","category":"Engineering","pubDate":"Thu, 04 Jun 2026 14:20:08 EDT","guid":"news699801241"},{"title":"Standalone 'leaf' produces liquid fuel from sun, water and CO\u2082 with record efficiency","description":"A Yale-led research team has developed the first standalone device that produces the liquid fuel methanol using only sunlight, water, and carbon dioxide as the ingredients. The artificial \"leaf,\" like its namesake in nature, is a chemistry marvel. It brings the scientific mimicry of photosynthesis\u2014the process of converting sunlight and water into chemical energy\u2014to a new level, converting sunlight to methanol 32 times more efficiently than the previous conversion record for artificial leaf technologies that generate alcohol products.","link":"https:\/\/techxplore.com\/news\/2026-06-standalone-leaf-liquid-fuel-sun.html","category":"Energy & Green Tech","pubDate":"Thu, 04 Jun 2026 13:20:01 EDT","guid":"news699797941"},{"title":"Framework generates 'shadow art' from scan of any object","description":"Some people have a gift for creating beautiful works of art. Others appreciate art but do not have the talent to create it. Researchers at Cornell Tech and the Cornell Bowers College of Computing and Information Science have created an artificial intelligence framework, ShadowDraw, that can create \"shadow art\"\u2014partial line drawings that are completed by the shadow cast from an object\u2014by simply scanning the object.","link":"https:\/\/techxplore.com\/news\/2026-06-framework-generates-shadow-art-scan.html","category":"Consumer & Gadgets","pubDate":"Thu, 04 Jun 2026 13:00:02 EDT","guid":"news699796443"},{"title":"Offshore wind could potentially cover 11% of North Sea by 2050","description":"New research has mapped a plausible scenario for how offshore wind could reshape the North Sea by 2050, showing that if all current political commitments were built, around 11% of the basin would fall within wind farm boundaries.","link":"https:\/\/techxplore.com\/news\/2026-06-offshore-potentially-north-sea.html","category":"Business","pubDate":"Thu, 04 Jun 2026 12:40:02 EDT","guid":"news699795482"}]}}