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Development of a novel technology to check body temperature with smartphone camera
Thermal-imaging sensors that detect and capture images of the heat signatures of human bodies and other subjects have recently sprung into use in thermostats to check facial temperatures for contactless COVID-19 screening ...
Jul 26, 2021
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A reliable solution for passive acoustic and environmental monitoring
In a study published in Methods in Ecology & Evolution, researchers from the Xishuangbanna Tropical Botanical Garden (XTBG) of the Chinese Academy of Sciences and their collaborators developed a new acoustic recorder which ...
Jul 26, 2021
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Consumer & Gadgets
Nvidia to stop support for Windows 7, 8, 8.1, and Kepler GPUs soon
Nvidia, founding company of the GPU, has announced that on August 31 of 2021, support for Windows 7, 8 and 8.1, as well as for all Kepler GPUs, will be dropped. The majority of these GPUs used to sell as part of the 600 and ...
Jun 15, 2021
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Consumer & Gadgets
AMD and Samsung are developing a new Exynos mobile chip with ray tracing
Computex Taipei announced on June 2, 2021 that the graphics and processors company AMD has collaborated with Samsung to develop RDNA 2 graphics technology for an Exynos mobile system-on-chip, with the goal of enhanced Graphics ...
Jun 02, 2021 report
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Yes, the global microchip shortage is COVID's fault. No, it won't end any time soon
The manufacturing world is facing one of its greatest challenges in years—a global shortage of semiconductors—and there doesn't appear to be an end in sight any time soon.
Jun 02, 2021
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New magnetic tunnel junction quad tech provides endurance and reliable data retention
Professor Tetsuo Endoh's Group at Tohoku University's Center for Innovative Integrated Electronics has announced a new magnetic tunnel junction (MTJ) quad-technology that provides better endurance and reliable data retention—over ...
Jun 02, 2021
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Google announces Half-Double, a new technique used in the Rowhammer DRAM security exploit
Google has just revealed the discovery of a new technique used by attackers to take advantage of the Rowhammer security exploit present in Dynamic Random-Access Memory (DRAM). This new strategy involves capitalizing on the ...
Jun 01, 2021 report
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New hardware systems bring the future of artificial intelligence into view
Machine learning is the process by which computers adapt their responses without human intervention. This form of artificial intelligence (AI) is now common in everyday tools such as virtual assistants and is being developed ...
Jun 01, 2021
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Consumer & Gadgets
USB-C and Power Delivery upgrades offer 240W Extended Power Range support
At a time where many people use multiple different electronic devices at any given moment, the 240W charger offers a single, central power source for them all. Beginning with the 100W charger back in 2019, which could charge ...
May 26, 2021 report
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Consumer & Gadgets
Seagate's Mach.2 is the fastest hard drive out there
Seagate has been working toward developing a dual-actuator hard drive, meaning that the drive will contain two sets of independently controlled read/write heads. Now, after several years, the company has released its first ...
May 24, 2021 report
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Two-in-one: Wide-angle monitoring meets high-resolution capture in new camera platform
If you're a fan of spy movies, you've probably come across scenes where the intelligence agents try to identify or detect a perpetrator using some sophisticated image enhancement technology on surveillance camera images. ...
May 14, 2021
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Check Point Research detects privacy flaw on Qualcomm's mobile station modems
Check Point Research (CPR) has identified a security flaw in the Qualcomm chip of the mobile station modems (MSM) used in cellular communication for over 40 percent of phones worldwide. If exploited, a hacker could use the ...
May 07, 2021 report
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Open-source GPU technology for supercomputers
Researchers from the HSE International Laboratory for Supercomputer Atomistic Modeling and Multi-scale Analysis, JIHT RAS and MIPT have compared the performance of popular molecular modeling programs on GPU accelerators produced ...
Apr 30, 2021
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