Today's Tech News: Notable or Not?

https://phys.org/news/2023-07-bio-inspired-polymer-brains-artificial-neural.html "PEDOT:PSS polymer mixture, conductive, transparent, flexible, stable... 3D structure of top and bottom electrodes immersed precursor, PEDOT:PSS wires grown between electrodes applying square-wave voltage mimicking formation synaptic connections through axon guidance immature brain... unsupervised Hebbian learning, control conductance... spike-based learning controlling diameter and conductivity, chip larger number of electrodes and using microfluidic channels to supply the precursor solution to each electrode" Related: Minimal energy loss thanks to smart use of branched fluidic networks https://phys.org/news/2023-07-minimal-energy-loss-smart-fluidic.html Why biology could be the future of computing and engineering https://phys.org/news/2025-06-biology-future.html Nanopores act like electrical gates https://www.eurekalert.org/news-releases/1105339

https://techxplore.com/news/2023-04-optical-neural-networks-image.html "filter relevant information from scene before visual image camera detected... faster, smaller, energy-efficient image sensors... compression ratio 800-to-1 classify cell images flow cytometers and measure and identify objects in 3D... light through matrix-vector multiplications compresses data 4 pixels... sort information yielding compression higher signal-to-noise ratio per camera pixel... cancer detection... useful where low-power sensing or computing needed, for example, image sensing on satellite"

https://www.tum.de/en/about-tum/news/press-releases/details/37038 "measures individual photons on a time-resolved and spatially-resolved basis. This makes it possible to separate signal photons from noise photons... detects each individual photon emitted from each neutron... enables real-time image reconstruction... takes us away from the traditional model of exposure time and we measure only those events which have occurred... ghost images also eliminated" Related: New method greatly improves X-ray nanotomography resolution https://phys.org/news/2021-08-method-greatly-x-ray-nanotomography-resolution.html "compensates for the drift and deformation... achieved a resolution below 10 nanometers... upgraded facility will generate high-energy X-ray beams that are up to 500 times brighter than those currently possible, and further advances in X-ray optics will enable even narrower beams with higher resolution" World record broken for thinnest X-ray detector ever created h...