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This Simple Wire Controls Power in Every Device

Inside nearly every electronic device is a simple coil of wire doing a powerful job—it’s called an inductor. Though small and ...
IEEE

Common Ground Buck Type Five-Level Transformerless Inverter With Less Stress

Abstract: The presented brief introduces a new switched capacitor-based transformer-less inverter (SC TLI). This SC TLI configuration is based on a reduced switch count employing only six switches, ...
Futurism

Frontier AI Models Are Getting Stumped by a Simple Children’s Game

Earlier this week, researchers at Apple released a damning paper, criticizing the AI industry for vastly overstating the ability of its top AI models to reason or “think.” The team found that the ...
C&EN

Tuning Ultrasensitivity in Genetic Logic Gates Using Antisense RNA Feedback

Article subjects are automatically applied from the ACS Subject Taxonomy and describe the scientific concepts and themes of the article. The goal of this work is to study the use of asRNAs to extend ...
Electronic Design

So...The CMOS Circuits in Our Texts Go Back to 1963?

The first CMOS chip was created by Fairchild Semiconductor, presented at ISSCC in 1963. The logic topologies used in today’s textbooks originated in this work. P-type devices are slower than N-type by ...
Futurism

This Simple Logic Question Stumps Even the Most Advanced AI

A fascinating new paper from scientists at the AI research nonprofit LAION finds that even the most sophisticated large language models (LLMs) are frequently stumped by the same simple logic question ...