A single strand of fiber developed at Washington State University has the flexibility of cotton and the electric conductivity of a polymer, called polyaniline. The newly developed material showed good potential for…
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Google unveils Gemini, a MultiModal AI that outperforms GPT-4
Google has unveiled its next-generation AI model named Gemini which is built from the ground up for multimodality — reasoning seamlessly across text, images, video, audio, and code. Gemini is the first model to outperform human experts on MMLU…
World Record Optical Fiber Transmission Capacity Doubles to 22.9 Petabits per Second
Researchers from Japan and Netherlands demonstrated a record-breaking data-rate of 22.9 petabits per second using only a single optical fiber, which was more than double our previous world record of 10.66 petabits…
Ingestible electronic device detects breathing depression in patients
Diagnosing sleep disorders such as sleep apnea usually requires a patient to spend the night in a sleep lab, hooked up to a variety of sensors and monitors. Researchers from MIT, Celero…
UK approves world-first CRISPR gene therapy “Casgevy” to cure sickle-cell disease
A new treatment for sickle-cell disease and transfusion-dependent β-thalassemia has been authorised by the UK’s Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency (MHRA) for patients aged 12 and over after a rigorous assessment…