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This is how we create the age-friendly smart city
Senior citizens need help and encouragement to remain active as they age in their own communities. Given the choice, that's what most would prefer. The smart city can provide the digital infrastructure for them to find and ...
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Energy & Green Tech
NIST tool will help military vehicles fight fires using less harmful chemicals
Researchers at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) have developed a new, interactive spreadsheet that will help the U.S. military extinguish aircraft and vehicle fires using the latest environmentally ...
Mar 03, 2021
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Researchers highlight the need to address remote control of self-driving cars by human operators
A new article published by Royal Holloway and TRL highlights that the self-driving vehicles of the future will require occasional remote human intervention in the event that the vehicle's technology fails. Current industry ...
Feb 19, 2021
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Artificial emotional intelligence: A safer, smarter future with 5G and emotion recognition
With the advent of 5G communication technology and its integration with AI, we are looking at the dawn of a new era in which people, machines, objects, and devices are connected like never before. This smart era will be characterized ...
Feb 11, 2021
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Engineering
New 3-D-printed antenna designs reduce cost, weight and size
U.S. Naval Research Laboratory experts created and tested 3-D-printed antennas and arrays to advance radar technology and enable new applications for the U.S. Navy.
Feb 11, 2021
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Engineering
New window system cuts sound levels by 26 decibels, achieves four times better ventilation
Home owners, especially those in noisy districts, can look forward to greater living comfort with a new invention by researchers from the National University of Singapore (NUS) School of Design and Environment (SDE) that ...
Feb 04, 2021
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Energy & Green Tech
A glowing new prospect for self-reporting batteries
Monitoring the health of flow batteries in real time is a challenge. Argonne researchers have designed a fluorescent molecule for the purpose.
Feb 03, 2021
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Musk's Neuralink creates 'happy monkeys' who play Pong with their minds
When talking about Elon Musk, we must be prepared to talk about big numbers. The world's richest man—he's currently worth about $209 billion, give or take a billion—has designed electric powered cars that can drive (with ...
Feb 02, 2021 report
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Engineering
Innovative mechanical system makes it easy to turn bedridden patients
It takes around five or six people and a considerable amount of effort to turn an intubated patient in a hospital bed. For patients in an artificial coma, this procedure is performed at least twice a day in order to improve ...
Feb 02, 2021
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Microsoft patent would let us chat with the departed
A chilling episode of the Twilight Zone that first aired 60 years ago focused on a young boy (played by Bill Mumy) who frustrated his parents by insisting he speaks to his grandmother daily on the toy phone she had given ...
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Achieving cost-efficient superalloy powder manufacturing using machine learning
High-performance, high-quality Ni-Co-based superalloy powders are promising aircraft engine raw materials. Using machine learning, a NIMS team has succeeded in speedily determining the optimum parameters for manufacturing ...
Jan 25, 2021
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Robotics
Smooth touchdown: Novel camera-based system for automated landing of drone on a fixed spot
Initially earmarked for covert military operations, unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) or drones have since gained tremendous popularity, which has broadened the scope of their use. In fact, "remote pilot" drones have been largely ...
Jan 21, 2021
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Start-up commercialises AI that can detect leaks instantly in gas pipelines
A sensor network powered by an artificial intelligence (AI) algorithm developed by scientists from Nanyang Technological University, Singapore (NTU Singapore) can accurately detect, in real-time, gas leaks and unwanted water ...
Jan 21, 2021
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