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One of the best Apple Airpod alternative running headphones is now 20% off
By Lloyd Coombes published
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New invention transforms any smartphone or TV display into a holographic projector
By Owen Hughes published
Scientists have developed a method for creating 3D holograms using "incoherent light" emitted from mobile devices — turning iPhone 14 Pro into a projector.
EV batteries could last much longer thanks to new capacitor with 19-times higher energy density that scientists created by mistake
By Rory Bathgate published
Electric cars and laptop batteries could charge up much faster and last longer thanks to a new structure that can be used to make much better capacitors in the future.
'World's purest silicon' could lead to 1st million-qubit quantum computing chips
By Keumars Afifi-Sabet published
Scientists engineer the 'purest ever silicon' to build reliable qubits that can be manufactured to the size of a pinhead on a chip and power million-qubit quantum computers in the future.
Scientists could make blazing-fast 6G using curving light rays
By Roland Moore-Coyler published
Researchers have discovered a way to curve data-carrying terahertz signals around obstacles, paving the way for ultrafast 6G.
32 weird technologies that never took off
By Tim Danton published
We've seen many big hitters capture our imagination, alongside a handful of oddities and misfits that were less successful.
'It would be within its natural right to harm us to protect itself': How humans could be mistreating AI right now without even knowing it
By Keumars Afifi-Sabet published
How can we truly know if AI is sentient? We do not yet fully understand the nature of human consciousness, so we cannot discount the possibility that today's AI is indeed sentient — and that we are mistreating it to potentially grave consequences.
Charging future EVs could take seconds with new sodium-ion battery tech
By Owen Hughes published
A new type of hybrid sodium-ion battery that offers both high capacity and rapid-charging capabilities could power mobile devices, electric vehicles and space tech.
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