This crazy new material could harvest electricity from the human body
We all get stressed out. But typically, when we stress, we don’t produce electricity. The same can’t be said of a flexible new material developed by researchers from Empa, the…
This simple hack using aluminium foil could improve your home Wi-Fi
Scientists have discovered a simple, low-cost method for boosting the strength of Wi-Fi signals inside your home, and it relies on a household staple almost everybody keeps on hand in…
IBM just announced an insanely powerful 50-qubit quantum computer
At the IEEE Industry Summit on the Future of Computing in Washington DC on Friday, IBM announced the development of a quantum computer capable of handling 50 qubits (quantum bits).…
This incredibly tiny probe can record brain activity like we’ve never seen before
The more detail we can get on the inner workings of the brain, the better our chances of understanding and treating it, and scientists have just unveiled a new high-definition…
A Dutch company has hacked a Tesla so it drives on hydrogen
Netherlands gas supplier Holthausen Group has taken a Tesla Model S and hacked it to run on electricity and hydrogen. Combined with their “Project Hesla” components, the vehicle can travel…
‘Twisted light’ could create ultra-fast wireless and make fibre optics obsolete
A new method of using photons to carry information might provide a new wireless solution for communication. A collaborative team of researchers developed a way to ‘twist’ photons to improve…
This AI has learned to generate completely photorealistic human faces
Back in June, an image generator that could turn even the crudest doodle of a face into a more realistic looking image made the rounds online. That system used a…
This new kind of AI can breach anti-bot security by thinking like a human
One of the most widespread security systems used on the internet to prevent non-humans from accessing websites has been defeated by a powerful new kind of artificial intelligence (AI). CAPTCHAs…