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Smartphone tool helps users keep social distance
Smartphone users have a new way to keep their distance—a tool that lets them know when people are getting closer than pandemic guidelines re...
Groundbreaking all-electric plane paving way to greener aviation
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If all cars were electric, UK carbon emissions would drop by 12%
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The coronavirus could mark the rise of automation
The coronavirus pandemic has caused a massive surge in global unemployment. It has also highlighted the increasingly valuable role of automa...
IoT labels will help consumers figure out which devices are spying on them
When hungry consumers want to know how many calories are in a bag of chips, they can check the nutrition label on the bag. When those same c...
A Zen Buddhist monk's approach to democratizing AI
Colin Garvey, a postdoctoral research fellow at Stanford University's Center for International Security and Cooperation (CISAC) and Inst...
Clean energy is outperforming fossil fuels in America, UK and Europe
Renewable power is outperforming fossil fuels in US and European markets, according to a new report published by Imperial College Business S...
Inertia and the power grid: A guide without the spin
The power grid is evolving to include ever-higher levels of wind and solar generation—which do not provide inertia, historically a key sourc...
Really Australia, it's not that hard: 10 reasons why renewable energy is the future
Australia's latest greenhouse gas figures released today show national emissions fell slightly last year. This was by no means an econom...
Google cautions EU on AI rule-making
Google warned on Thursday that the EU's definition of artificial intelligence was too broad and that Brussels must refrain from over-reg...
Hydropower plants to support solar and wind energy in West Africa
Hydropower plants can support solar and wind power, rather unpredictable by nature, in a climate-friendly manner. A new study in the scienti...
Acer Aspire 5
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The effectiveness of a heating system is validated: Heating air from solar radiation
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Astro C40
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CVS Health tests self-driving vehicle prescription delivery
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Smart window technology that automatically changes color by sunlight
Smart window technology that can automatically adjust the amount of sunlight entering the room by changing the color of the window depending...
Executing low-power linear computations using nonlinear ferroelectric memristors
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COVID-19 offers lessons in how to build a more resilient electricity infrastructure
Alberto J. Lamadrid, an associate professor of economics, conducted an analysis of electricity use in several regions of the United States o...
German firm introducing game-changing solar-wind-wave energy platform
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Technology that could save 12% of the energy used in pressurized irrigation
Irrigation agriculture not only requires a large amount of water but it also uses a significant amount of energy, which in addition to affec...
In pandemic, using drones to drop medical supplies from sky
With a loud whir and a whoosh, a fixed-wing drone slingshots out of a medical warehouse, zips through hazy skies at 80 mph, pops open a bell...
Smarter energy use is key to a greener future
LED lightbulbs, programmable thermostats, high-density insulation and electric vehicles—despite these innovations, about two-thirds of the e...
Tech review: Lighting up the darkness in your vehicle
Sometimes I get to review things that sound really cool, but after I use them, I find I'm not quite the target market. from Consumer E...
Using deep learning to give robotic fingertips a sense of touch
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Xenoblade Chronicles: Definitive Edition
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Battery reuse systems could be profitable for electric vehicle companies and grid-scale solar operations
As electric vehicles rapidly grow in popularity worldwide, there will soon be a wave of used batteries whose performance is no longer suffic...
Virus sparks record drop in energy investment: IEA
The energy industry is set to suffer a record drop in investment due to the coronavirus fallout, the IEA said on Wednesday, and while renewa...
Student finds privacy flaws in connected security and doorbell cameras
Ring, Nest, SimpliSafe and eight other manufacturers of internet-connected doorbell and security cameras have been alerted to "systemic...
New 5G switches mean battery life improvements, higher bandwidth and speeds
The 5G revolution has begun, and the first lines of phones that can access the next generation of wireless speeds have already hit the shelv...
Researchers use drones, machine learning to detect dangerous 'butterfly' landmines
Using advanced machine learning, drones could be used to detect dangerous "butterfly" landmines in remote regions of post-conflict...
Designing technologies that interpret your mood from your skin
Smart devices that measure electrical signals from your skin have the potential to tell you about your stress levels, help your sports perfo...
Smart machine maintenance: New AI system also detects unknown faults
A new maintenance system is helping to make sensors smart. A research team led by Professor Andreas Schütze of Saarland University is combin...
New system for widespread availability of green hydrogen
Hydrogen researchers at Graz University of Technology, together with the Graz-based start-up Rouge H2 Engineering, have developed a cost-eff...
LG V60 ThinQ
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Evacuating virtual buildings: Researching pedestrian behavior using VR and AR
Virtual reality (VR) is not just about gaming or flight simulators. At TU Delft, Ph.D. Yan Feng is investigating how it may help explain the...
Reviewing recent advances in the development of non-reciprocal electronics
The propagation of both light and sound waves is reciprocal in nature. In other words, light and acoustic waves travel forward and backward ...
A method to produce hydrogen in vivo photosynthetically
Researchers have been trying to produce hydrogen photosynthetically for quite some time now, as this could pave the way toward a more sustai...
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Artificial intelligence for optimized mobile communication
While many European states are currently setting up the 5th generation of mobile communication, scientists are already working on its optimi...
Razer Raiju Ultimate
The Razer Raiju Ultimate Edition is the top dog gamepad in the PC gaming heavyweight’s current portfolio. It targets the same hardcore mark...
A model that estimates tactile properties of surfaces by analyzing images
The ability to estimate the physical properties of objects is of key importance for robots, as it allows them to interact more effectively w...
International collaboration powers quest for next-generation solar cells
The next generation of solar cells, made from flexible, wearable material, may soon charge our devices on the go, or provide critical electr...
International collaboration powers quest for next-generation solar cells
The next generation of solar cells, made from flexible, wearable material, may soon charge our devices on the go, or provide critical electr...
Do this before you upgrade your phone: Back up your data and wipe it clean
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Pac-Man reinvented by Nvidia AI on its 40th birthday
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Good start, but room for improvement: Experts rate Australia's emissions technology plan
Energy Minister Angus Taylor yesterday released his government's emissions reduction technology plan, setting out priorities for meeting...
A self-improving pyramid stereo network for intelligent transport systems
In autonomous driving, stereo vision-based depth estimation technology can help to accurately estimate the distance of obstacles, which is c...
Killer apps: New book explores media systems and the rise of military automation
A U of T Mississauga researcher is challenging naïve assumptions that technology can be easily controlled or grounded by policy and law, arg...
Artificial intelligence can make personality judgments based on photographs
Russian researchers from HSE University and Open University for the Humanities and Economics have demonstrated that artificial intelligence ...
Minecraft Dungeons Review
Ever since Microsoft purchased Minecraft for an absurdly high asking price, we’ve been waiting to see how the franchise would burst outside ...
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