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Android’s facial-recognition future could rely on skin detection

The Parallax

Ingmar Bruder was researching organic photovoltaics—and how to make paint that could absorb sunlight and turn it into electricity—at German chemical giant BASF, when he hit upon an unexpected discovery. When he pointed infrared beams at various objects, they would reflect the beam back in different ways, depending on what they were made of.

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Generally Intelligent secures cash from OpenAI vets to build capable AI systems

TechCrunch

Called Generally Intelligent , it plans to do this by turning these fundamentals into an array of tasks to be solved and by designing and testing different systems’ ability to learn to solve them in highly complex 3D worlds built by their team. ” Image Credits: Generally Intelligent.

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SunGreenH2’s nano-scale engineering could double green hydrogen production

TechCrunch

It looks a bit chaotic, but the material is carefully engineered to interact with the other chemical components of the electrolysis process (mainly water and a catalyst), and by forming a sort of 3D sponge structure rather than a flat or rough one, it doubles the surface area that reaction can happen on.

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Stämm Biotech raises $17M for its next-generation, 3D printed bioreactor

TechCrunch

Instead, it’s developing a unit that 3D prints a dense network of microchannels that pass cells through the nutrients and oxygen they need. An example of a 3D-printed fluid channel piece. What Stämm has done is essentially cut the tank, stirring and tubes out of the equation entirely. The movement itself acts as the stirring motion.

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Crystal Clear: Pioneering the Last 60 years of Display Technology Innovation & Looking Into the Future

Strategy Driven

Immersive displays : Holographic and 3D displays could replace the wall the TV is hanging from today; they will also replace the kitchen countertop, the restaurant table, the student desk, and the tray table in an airplane. They will last a long time without having to recharge. But it won’t be for everyone. It’s been a fantastic ride.

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Radar Trends to Watch: October 2022

O'Reilly Media - Ideas

It consists of a series of 3D animations. Bryan Cantrill on Rust and the future of low latency embedded systems : Rust is the first language since C to live at the border between hardware and software. Chaos is new malware that can infect both Windows and Linux devices, including routers, firewalls, and other networking hardware.

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Effective Communication: Begin With The End In Mind | Guy Harris.

The Recovering Engineer

He has degrees in Chemical Engineering and he served as a Nuclear Engineering officer in the U.S. Be Honest): Girls in …Panasonic slashes prices on 3D televisions | Hardware news …Neighbours eye Iraq elections | PKMirror View the Contact Powered by Information [.]

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