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Impulse Neuro-Controller executes game moves with thoughts instead of mouse clicks
George Will, a political commentator for nearly half a century at The Washington Post, is known to also enjoy weighing in on sports on occasion, most notably baseball. He is fond of repeating the simple but critical observation ...
Jan 14, 2021
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Energy & Green Tech
Two-sided solar cells can collect scattered light to gather more energy
To increase the performance of solar panels, an international collaboration—including researchers from King Abdullah University of Science & Technology (KAUST) and U of T Engineering—has created a bifacial, or two-sided, ...
Jan 12, 2021
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Consumer & Gadgets
Looking Glass converts any photo into 3-D image
On the first day of a popular psychology course in the 1970s at City College of New York, students were told the story of how a remote South American tribe that was never exposed to technology or even electricity reacted ...
Jan 07, 2021
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Hi Tech & Innovation
New Mercedes screen to stretch nearly full width of car
Daimler's Mercedes-Benz has unveiled a key interior component of its upcoming electric luxury sedan: a large, curved screen that sweeps across almost the entire width of the car in the place of a conventional dashboard.
Jan 07, 2021
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Consumer & Gadgets

Apple proposes new wireless charging ecosystem
Apple is eyeing a better way to charge your devices.
Jan 06, 2021 report
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Energy & Green Tech

Novel public-private partnership facilitates development of fusion energy
The U.S. Department of Energy's (DOE) Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory (PPPL) is collaborating with private industry on cutting-edge fusion research aimed at achieving commercial fusion energy. This work, enabled through ...
Dec 30, 2020
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Electronics & Semiconductors

Researchers prepare tailored and wearable sensor via 3-D printed UV-curable sacrificial mold
Three-dimensional (3-D) printing techniques have the ability to fabricate wearable sensors with customized and complex designs compared with conventional processes. The vat photopolymerization 3-D printing technique exhibits ...
Dec 30, 2020
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Consumer & Gadgets

OnePlus 8T Concept phone has color-shifting, camera-camouflage features
As smartphone manufacturers race to reach faster transmission speeds, greater storage capacities and quicker charging times, it's a change of pace to find a new phone that ignores all of those pursuits.
Dec 22, 2020 report
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Internet

Digital concert formats to be examined following impact of pandemic
In the first study of its kind, the team, which includes researchers from Zeppelin University, the Max Planck Institute for Empirical Aesthetics in Frankfurt am Main, and the University of Bern in Switzerland, will look at ...
Dec 18, 2020
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Hardware

Fujifilm, IBM unveil 580-terabyte magnetic tape
When it comes to magnetic tape storage capacity, smaller is larger. That is, as the magnetic particles that store data become smaller, more data can be stockpiled in the same amount of space.
Dec 17, 2020 report
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Hi Tech & Innovation

'How Pac-Man Eats' explores how games work and how they can create meaning
Since the early days of pioneering games like Pong and Pac-Man, computer games have grown dramatically more complex and sophisticated, not only in the fundamental mechanics of how they work, but also in their ability express ...
Dec 16, 2020
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Temporal constraint background-aware correlation filter drives accurate visual tracking
Visual object tracking is one of the most challenging problems in multimedia processing with numerous applications, such as video retrieval, video editing, video surveillance, augmented reality, motion analysis, human-computer ...
Dec 15, 2020
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Electronics & Semiconductors

Device uses light sensors to tell whether the wearer is inside or outside
Taking an interdisciplinary approach—and mixing in a little do-it-yourself initiative—a team of Penn State Berks researchers developed a wearable device that can tell the difference between indoor and outdoor lighting. ...
Dec 15, 2020
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Hi Tech & Innovation

Virtual reality battlefield technology designed to train military leaders
A new and modern approach to understanding battlefield history may soon help prepare future military leaders in the U.S.
Dec 11, 2020
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