Automated vehicles: Social factors inform pedestrians' crossing decisions
QUT researchers have found that pedestrians' crossing decisions involving automated vehicles (AVs) are most influenced by nearby pedestrians.
Jul 25, 2024
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Automotive
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Business
American Airlines reports lower profits but wins on IT outage
American Airlines lowered its 2024 outlook Thursday on lingering effects of a botched booking system upgrade, but shares rallied as it touted a speedy recovery to last week's IT outage that plagued rivals.
Jul 25, 2024
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Business
Microsoft's World of Warcraft development workers are unionizing
More than 500 workers behind the popular video game franchisee "World of Warcraft" are unionizing.
Jul 25, 2024
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Engineering
Intelligent engineering: AI transforms spatial arrangement of hydropower underground facilities
Designing the spatial arrangement of underground powerhouses involves numerous complex parameters and boundaries, requiring frequent reference to various cases and specifications. Traditional methods struggle to efficiently ...
Jul 25, 2024
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Business
Happy 50th birthday to the UPC barcode—no one expected you would revolutionize global commerce
The first modern barcode was scanned 50 years ago this summer—on a 10-pack of chewing gum in a grocery store in Troy, Ohio.
Jul 25, 2024
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Engineering
Why are we finding so many Australian shipwrecks lately? There's one research vessel helping uncover the past
On August 23, 1969, the coastal freighter MV Noongah departed Newcastle bound for Townsville with a cargo of steel and 26 crew. The 71-meter ship had been a regular sight along the eastern seaboard for a decade as it hauled ...
Jul 25, 2024
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Energy & Green Tech
Harnessing blue energy: Advanced nanofluidic membranes boost aquatic energy conversion efficiency
To achieve carbon neutrality, advancements in energy conversion and storage technologies are essential. Current aqueous energy devices suffer from performance limitations due to the trade-off between permeability and selectivity ...
Jul 25, 2024
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Energy & Green Tech
Engineers develop a recipe for zero-emissions fuel: Soda cans, seawater and caffeine
A sustainable source for clean energy may lie in old soda cans and seawater. MIT engineers have found that when the aluminum in soda cans is exposed in its pure form and mixed with seawater, the solution bubbles up and naturally ...
Jul 25, 2024
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Business
CrowdStrike: The massive companies you've never heard of with a hidden grip on our lives
The world is saturated by services and products provided by companies that have a "secret grip" on the way we live. In 1951, the French-born American industrial designer Raymond Loewy described a typical day "of the average ...
Jul 25, 2024
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Robotics
Engineers design new valve to give soft robots resilience boost
A new type of valve that makes soft robots more resilient to damage, has been developed by engineers at the University of Sheffield.
Jul 25, 2024
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