Ride-hailing giant Uber will lay off about 10% of its staff as part of "significant organizational changes," CEO Dara Khosrowshahi said in a message to employees released Wednesday.

Self-driving cars are often controlled by deep learning models that sometimes fail in unexpected situations. For instance, the car might inexplicably brake and block the path of an oncoming emergency ...

A research team has developed a dual-molecule passivation technology that simultaneously improves the efficiency and stability of inverted perovskite solar cells. The research is published in the ...

Metal halide perovskite solar cells (PSCs) are promising candidates for next-generation photovoltaics because of their high efficiency and low manufacturing cost. While lead-based perovskite devices ...

Claims of "smart" toys go back decades. See Chatty Cathy and Furby. But generative artificial intelligence is increasing the capabilities of interactive toys. The company Curio, for instance, markets ...

A new AI model for predicting energy consumption could help managers plan ahead and open up opportunities for cutting carbon emissions, according to research published in the International Journal of ...

As extreme heat waves intensify due to climate change, rail temperatures now exceed 60°C (140°F) during summer, increasing track-deformation risks. This has necessitated speed restrictions, causing ...

Lithium-ion batteries (LiBs) power electric vehicles and most existing electronics, ranging from laptops to smartphones, ...

When we watch a metal part being built by laser-based metal additive manufacturing (AM), we're only seeing part of the story.

Chinese humanoid robots broke records set by humans, including beating Usain Bolt's 100-meter sprint world record, on the ...

To operate reliably in dynamic real-world settings, robots should be able to acquire new skills quickly without undergoing ...

This summer, record-breaking heat waves in Europe led to extreme stress on the power system, with high evening electricity ...