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Jan 10, 2024

Alexa just got three new generative AI skills — here’s how to try them

Posted by in categories: media & arts, mobile phones, robotics/AI

Next on the list is a skill called Splash, which uses AI to create a song based on your description. With this one, you can tell Alexa to create any type of song or specify the genre of music you want. After playing a short excerpt, Alexa asks if you want to make any changes, such as adding lyrics. If you like the tune, you can then tell Alexa to send it to your phone for playback.

To use the skill to generate any type of song, say: “Alexa, create a song with Splash Music.” To include a genre, say: “Alexa, open Splash Music,” and you’ll be asked what style you prefer. For this one, I asked Splash to compose a song in the style of jazz. The result certainly wouldn’t win any awards at the next Grammys, but it showed promise.

Finally, the third skill is named Volley Games, an AI-driven spin on the usual 20 questions game. In this one, a friendly AI host challenges you to guess an object by asking the right ‘yes’ or ‘no’ questions. After giving you the category, you’re prompted to ask each question until you hopefully guess the mystery item. Along the way, you can ask for hints if you’re stumped.

Jan 9, 2024

First functional semiconductor made from graphene

Posted by in categories: biotech/medical, computing, mobile phones, quantum physics

The first functional semiconductor made from graphene has been created at the Georgia Institute of Technology. This could enable smaller and faster electronic devices and may have applications for quantum computing.

Credit: Georgia Institute of Technology.

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Jan 8, 2024

Apple’s China headache worsens as iPhone faces double-digit sales slump

Posted by in category: mobile phones

The slow start from Apple’s latest offering recently expanded to a 30% year-on-year decline, Bloomberg reported, citing Jefferies analysts led by Edison Lee.

Apple isn’t likely to see its iPhone sales recover from this sluggish start, per Jefferies analysts, which forecast a double-digit drop in volumes for 2024. The company saw a similar decline in December, per Bloomberg.

Apple’s relationship with China has been under strain recently.

Jan 7, 2024

Revolutionizing Electronics: Physicists Achieve Major Advance Using Graphene Spintronics

Posted by in categories: computing, mobile phones, particle physics

Physicists at the National University of Singapore have innovated a concept to induce and directly quantify spin splitting in two-dimensional materials. By using this concept, they have experimentally achieved large tunability and a high degree of spin-polarisation in graphene. This research achievement can potentially advance the field of two-dimensional (2D) spintronics, with applications for low-power electronics.

Joule heating poses a significant challenge in modern electronics, especially in devices such as personal computers and smartphones. This is an effect that occurs when the flow of electrical current passing through a material produces thermal energy, subsequently raising the material’s temperature.

One potential solution involves the use of spin, instead of charge, in logic circuits. These circuits can, in principle, offer low-power consumption and ultrafast speed, owing to the reduction or elimination of Joule heating. This has given rise to the emerging field of spintronics.

Jan 5, 2024

These AI-powered apps can hear the cause of a cough

Posted by in categories: biotech/medical, mobile phones, robotics/AI

Smartphone apps can differentiate between tuberculosis and other respiratory conditions. It’s part of an AI-driven trend: using sound to diagnose illnesses.

Jan 5, 2024

X, formerly Twitter users leak Google and Apple AI plans

Posted by in categories: mobile phones, robotics/AI

What’s cooking in the AI labs of Google and Apple?


New rumors claim that Apple’s generative AI technology will be included in Siri not just locally on iPhones, but also integrated into other services. Whereas, Google will upgrade Bard with more ‘advanced’ capabilities.

Jan 5, 2024

Tesla Researcher Demonstrates 100-Year, 4-Million-Mile Battery

Posted by in categories: chemistry, mobile phones, sustainability, transportation

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One of the biggest concerns about EVs is that the batteries will need replacing after a few years, at great expense. After all, your smartphone battery is likely to have seen better days within as little as three years. But a Tesla researcher is getting ready to kick this idea into touch once and for all, after demonstrating batteries that could potentially outlive most human beings.

Tesla enthusiasts are likely to have heard of Jeff Dahn already. He’s a professor at Dalhousie University and has been a research partner with Tesla since 2016. His focus has been to increase the energy density and lifetime of lithium-ion batteries, as well as reducing their cost. Dahn appears to have hit the motherload along with colleagues on his research team. In a paper published in the Journal of the Electrochemical Society, the group claims to have created a battery design that could last 100 years under the right conditions.

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Jan 5, 2024

A butterfly-inspired design to create crumple-recoverable electronics

Posted by in categories: engineering, mobile phones

Over the past decades, electronics engineers have created devices of various shapes and with increasingly sophisticated designs. This includes electronics that can be folded onto themselves, such as foldable phones, along with various other compressible devices.

Researchers at Ajou University and other institutes in South Korea recently introduced a new design for developing crumple-recoverable electronics, or in other words, electronics that can recover their original shape after being crumpled or compressed onto themselves to reduce their size. This design, outlined in a paper published in Nature Electronics, draws inspiration from the mechanism that allows butterflies to unfold their wings when leaving their cocoon.

“Nature is rich of different plants and animals, each of which survived by adapting and evolving in extreme environments,” Seungyong Han, co-author of the paper, told Tech Xplore. “Personally, I’ve always thought that by closely observing these phenomena, we can find clues to solve various problems in modern society. Also, by approaching this from an engineering perspective, I believed we could achieve results that may improve people’s daily lives.”

Jan 4, 2024

2024 will see Samsung lead the mobile AI wave with the new Galaxy S24

Posted by in categories: mobile phones, robotics/AI

Over one billion smartphones with built-in AI are to be shipped by 2027, according to Counterpoint Research.


Samsung is all set to kick off the new year of AI phones with new launch this month. The first of many, Galaxy S24 will be released on January 17 in San Jose, California through a livestream.

Jan 4, 2024

The Coming Age of Abundance w/ Peter Diamandis and Elon Musk

Posted by in categories: Elon Musk, mobile phones, Peter Diamandis, robotics/AI, satellites

Elon Musk Discusses AI, Longevity, and Bots with Peter Diamandis.
Technology, innovation, and optimism are crucial for solving global challenges and crafting a better future for humanity.

Questions to inspire discussion.

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