Scientists at Tokyo Institute of Technology and Socionext Inc. have developed a novel transceiver for enabling seamless communication between Earth ground platforms and satellites in the low, middle and geostationary Earth ...
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During the coronavirus pandemic, Zoom, Skype, and other videoconferencing systems have become our lifelines for workplace communication. But while those platforms work well for many kinds of virtual meetings and conferences, ...
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Security
Much of the world has switched to embedded anti-counterfeit EMV (Europay, MasterCard, Visa) chips in credit cards, but adoption in the U.S. lags. Therefore, a significant percentage of the U.S. population is vulnerable to ...
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Energy & Green Tech
Following the 2011 earthquake in Japan, a tsunami disabled the power supply and cooling in three Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant reactors. The reactors' cores largely melted in the first 72 hours.
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Engineering
The apple is Germany's favorite fruit. Pears rank sixth in annual per capita consumption. Yet apple and pear trees both frequently suffer from diseases: Apple proliferation and pear decline are widespread in European fruit ...
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Energy & Green Tech
As electric vehicle (EV) sales continue to rev up in the United States, the power grid is in parallel contending with the greatest transformation in its 100-year history: the large-scale integration of renewable energy and ...
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Germany's power supply is one of the most reliable in the world. Yet the growth in renewable energy has introduced a host of unpredictable factors into the power mix. The increasing number of irregular power sources can bring ...
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Consumer & Gadgets
The DualShock 4 wireless controller will work with the PlayStation 5 console, and supported PlayStation 4 games, but it won't work with new PS5 games, Sony announced in a blog post Monday.
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Business
Europe is sitting on a wealth of data that is the 21st century equivalent of a precious metal mine during the gold rush.
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Business
The latest twist in the TikTok saga is an especially strange turn in a tale filled with strange turns. Suddenly, Microsoft—known primarily for work software like Windows and Office— is in talks to buy the popular Chinese-owned ...
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