Technology

The French tech giant Atos has found itself in a precarious situation, burdened with nearly five billion euros of debt. This has prompted concerns about the company’s financial stability and its ability to fulfill its obligations, especially with major contracts such as managing the IT infrastructure for the upcoming Paris Olympics. With such a massive

Solar cell technology has come a long way in recent years, with researchers focusing on developing more efficient and cost-effective designs to facilitate their widespread deployment. One of the most promising advancements in this field is the development of organic solar cells based on perovskite materials. These cells have shown several advantages over traditional silicon-based

As the clock ticks towards the midnight deadline on Friday, 7,200 workers with Daimler Truck in the southern US states are on the brink of a potential strike. The United Auto Workers and Daimler Truck representatives have been locked in talks over a new contract to replace the expiring one. Led by President Shawn Fain,

ByteDance, the Chinese tech giant behind the immensely popular video platform TikTok, has recently stated that it has no intentions of selling TikTok despite a new US law that mandated it to divest from the platform within nine months or face a ban in the United States. This move by US lawmakers was motivated by

In a groundbreaking development, a team of video and AI engineers from Adobe Research has introduced an innovative AI tool known as VideoGigaGAN. This cutting-edge application has the ability to significantly enhance the quality of blurry videos, transforming them into sharp and clear visuals. The team’s groundbreaking work and findings have been detailed in an

Taking over the leadership of a multinational corporation like ASML is no small feat, especially in the midst of a rapidly changing geopolitical landscape. Christophe Fouquet, the newly appointed CEO, faces an array of challenges, from navigating the complex relationship between ASML and China to managing domestic political debates in the Netherlands. Christophe Fouquet’s appointment

In a groundbreaking study based on data from a game show back in 2002, a researcher from Virginia Commonwealth University has unlocked the key to detecting deception. Xunyu Chen, an assistant professor in the Department of Information Systems at VCU’s School of Business, believes that human behaviors are a treasure trove of cues that indicate

In recent years, China has made significant strides in the field of unmanned aerial systems (UAS), leading to a transformative shift in low-altitude airspace management. The integration of a growing number of unmanned aircraft into the national airspace has presented unique challenges and opportunities for regulation, technology, and industry practices. This evolution is driven by

In the realm of optimizing the stochastic gradient descent (SGD) algorithm, the choice of step size, also known as the learning rate, is crucial. Various strategies have been developed to enhance the performance of SGD, with recent advancements focusing on the distribution of step sizes. One of the challenges faced with existing step size methods

The University of Bristol researchers have made a groundbreaking discovery in the field of sensing technology that could potentially revolutionize the manufacturing sector in the United Kingdom. By developing a formula that can determine the design boundaries for the geometry and material microstructure of components, they have paved the way for a commercially viable sensing