Energy & Green Tech
When an offshore wind farm pops up, there is a period of noisy but well-studied and in most cases regulated construction. Once the turbines are operational, they provide a valuable source of renewable energy while emitting ...
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Computer Sciences
When a driverless car is in motion, one faulty decision by its collision-avoidance system can lead to disaster, but researchers at the University of California, Irvine have identified another possible risk: Autonomous vehicles ...
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Engineering
Tests conducted by Cornell and the U.S. Navy have used new algorithms to outperform state-of-the-art programming for autonomous underwater sonar imaging, significantly improving the speed and accuracy for identifying objects ...
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Robotics
The shape memory polymers known as liquid crystal elastomers (LCEs) are increasingly popular for uses in soft robotics, haptics, and wearable computing. Functioning as actuators, they can allow materials to contract, expand, ...
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Business
Amazon is opening up another physical store, this time for consumers who want to buy clothes.
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Internet
About a quarter of the world's internet users live in countries that are more susceptible than previously thought to targeted attacks on their internet infrastructure. Many of the at-risk countries are located in the Global ...
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Consumer & Gadgets
Researchers from City University of Hong Kong, University of Minnesota, and University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign published a new paper in the Journal of Marketing that finds that requesting customers rate service professionals ...
May 26, 2022
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Engineering
Rice University chemists working with researchers at the Ford Motor Company are turning plastic parts from "end-of-life" vehicles into graphene via the university's flash Joule heating process.
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Computer Sciences
A group of artists shook the world in the 1860s by painting what they saw, thought and felt. They became known as the impressionists and they weren't interested in recreating perfect visual appearances like hundreds of artists ...
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Computer Sciences
Pigeons can quickly be trained to detect cancerous masses on X-ray scans. So can computer algorithms.
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