Hardware
Qualcomm Technologies on Monday unveiled "the world's first fully-integrated 5G NR millimeter wave (mmWave) and sub-6 GHz RF modules for smartphones and other mobile devices." Translation: The 5G party is for real and will ...
Energy & Green Tech
Why do batteries die? And, why can they only be recharged so many times before they won't hold a useful amount of charge? My young son asked me about that years ago when his battery-powered toy car stopped moving, wondering ...
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Energy & Green Tech
Greenhouses have a long list of benefits: higher food production, less water use, potentially less pesticide use, a year-round growing season. There's a problem: they're expensive, both to install and to operate. But thanks ...
Jul 24, 2018
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Engineering
Drones are increasingly important tools for law enforcement agencies. Among other uses, drones can be equipped with sensors to detect radioactive material that is illicitly transported.
Jul 24, 2018
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Security
A team of researchers from R&D company Draper and Boston University developed a new large-scale vulnerability detection system using machine learning algorithms, which could help to discover software vulnerabilities faster ...
Security
Thousands of apps that allow domestic abusers to secretly spy on their partners are simple to install, difficult to detect, and marketed through a murky web of online advertising, blogs and videos explaining how to use them ...
Jul 24, 2018
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Energy & Green Tech
UNSW solar energy researcher and Scientia Fellow Dr. Xiaojing Hao and her team have achieved two energy efficiency world records for the solar cell material of the future, sulfide kesterite.
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Energy & Green Tech
Researchers have found out why new kinds of solar materials are so good at harvesting light – and have provided design rules for making them better.
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Energy & Green Tech
Using an advanced, new microscopy technique that can visualize chemical reactions occurring in liquid environments, researchers have discovered a new reason lithium-oxygen batteries—which promise up to five times more energy ...
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