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Battery-Free Gesture Recognition for All Devices
Mute the song playing on your smartphone in your pocket by flicking your index finger in the air, or pause your “This American Life” podcast with a small wave of the hand. This kind of gesture control...
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Computer Processors Power Efficiency Increased
Have you ever wondered why your laptop or smartphone feels warm when you’re using it? That heat is a byproduct of the microprocessors in your device using electric current to power computer processing...
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Can the Blind ‘Hear’ Colors, Shapes? Yes, Show Researchers
What if you could “hear” colors? Or shapes? These features are normally perceived visually, but using sensory substitution devices (SSDs) they can now be conveyed to the brain noninvasively through...
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Materials for Super-Efficient Nanoelectronics
Scientists at the Department of Energy’s SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory and Stanford University have discovered a potential way to make graphene — a single layer of carbon atoms with great...
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Enhanced Autopilot System to Prevent Accidents
Thirty lines of computer code might have saved Air France flight 447, and 228 passengers and crew aboard, from plunging into the Atlantic Ocean on June 1, 2009, according to new research by Carlos...
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New Materials, Electronics Dissolve When Told To
A medical device, once its job is done, could harmlessly melt away inside a person’s body. Or, a military device could collect and send its data and then dissolve away, leaving no trace of an...
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Using Google Glass in Surgical Settings?
An article recently published in the International Journal of Surgery shows the potential applications for Google Glass in the surgical setting, particularly in relation to training. Woman using Google...
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Wireless Power Transfer Achieved at 5m Distance
The way electronic devices receive their power has changed tremendously over the past few decades, from wired to non-wired. Users today enjoy all kinds of wireless electronic gadgets including cell...
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Improving Optical Communications With New Device
Modulators are key components within optical fiber networks and serve to transfer information from an electrical current to a signal suitable for optical fibers. They function by turning a light beam...
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App Makes Cellphone a Medical Monitor
By simply carrying around their cellphones, patients who suffer from chronic disease could soon have an accurate health monitor that warns their doctors when their symptoms worsen. A vision of urban...
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Measuring Fine Dust Concentration Via Smartphone
Big cities in the smog: Photos from Beijing and, more recently, Paris clearly illustrate the extent of fine dust pollution. But what about our direct environment? What is the pollution concentration...
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Toward Smarter Underwater Drones
The news was not good. An underwater drone armed with the best technology on the planet had descended repeatedly to the bottom of the Indian Ocean, trying to find Malaysia Airlines Flight 370. Time...
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Security and Privacy? Now They Can Go Hand in Hand
Online identification and authentication keeps transactions secure on the Internet, however this has also implications for your privacy. Disclosing more personal information than needed online when,...
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Tool to Make the Internet of Things Safer
Computer scientists at the University of California, San Diego, have developed a tool that allows hardware designers and system builders to test security- a first for the field. One of the tool’s...
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Thousands of Secret Keys Found in Android Apps
In a paper presented — and awarded the Ken Sevcik Outstanding Student Paper Award — at the ACM SIGMETRICS conference on June 18, Jason Nieh, professor of computer science at Columbia Engineering, and...
View ArticleIs Your Data Safe? Why You Should Care More About Spam
The Center for Research on Electronic Commerce (CREC) at The University of Texas at Austin is working to protect consumer data by using a company’s spam volume to evaluate its security vulnerability...
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Some Texting Bans Linked to Lower Traffic Deaths
Researchers at the University of Alabama at Birmingham School of Public Health examined the impact texting-while-driving laws have had on roadway crash-related fatalities, and the findings are...
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Sensors That Improve Rail Transport Safety
A new kind of human-machine communication is to make it possible to detect damage to rail vehicles before it’s too late and service trains only when they need it — all thanks to a cloud-supported,...
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Can Our Computers Get Smaller, More Powerful?
From their origins in the 1940s as sequestered, room-sized machines designed for military and scientific use, computers have made a rapid march into the mainstream, radically transforming industry,...
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Most Complete Antarctic Map for Climate Research Made Public
The University of Waterloo has unveiled a new satellite image of Antarctica, and the imagery will help scientists all over the world gain new insight into the effects of climate change. Mosaic of...
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