Active control of wind turbine speed can lead to fewer bird strikes
Sound signals, lights, painting the rotor blades, and rapid shutdowns have all been tried in an attempt to reduce bird mortality.
Sep 11, 2023
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News tagged with collision
Engineering
Study offers objective insights to near-miss collisions between drones, airplanes
Researchers have developed a new way to accurately count and objectively analyze close encounters between drones and airplanes—without depending solely on pilot sightings.
Jul 25, 2023
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Robotics
Novel system uses reinforcement learning to teach robotic cars to speed
Fast cars. Millions of us love them. The idea transcends national borders, race, religion, politics. We embraced them for more than a century, beginning in the early 1900s with the stately Stutz Bearcat and Mercer Raceabout ...
Computer Sciences
A new method to boost the speed of online databases
Hashing is a core operation in most online databases, like a library catalog or an e-commerce website. A hash function generates codes that replace data inputs. Since these codes are shorter than the actual data, and usually ...
Mar 13, 2023
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Automotive
Avoiding collisions with a new method learned from mariners
Preventing accidents by computing impending collisions of drones or cars: that is the goal of Darius Burschka. The professor at the Technical University of Munich (TUM) tracks every point in images generated by cameras carried ...
Feb 14, 2023
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Internet
Google chatbot blunders as AI battle with Microsoft heats up
Google on Wednesday announced a slew of features powered by Artificial Intelligence (AI), but a mistake in an ad caused its share price to tank.
Feb 9, 2023
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Internet
Google strikes back in AI battle with Microsoft
Google on Wednesday announced a slew of features powered by Artificial Intelligence (AI) as it ramped up a battle with Microsoft to maintain its dominance of the web search industry.
Feb 8, 2023
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Hi Tech & Innovation
Preventing vehicle crashes by learning from insects
Despite only about 25% of car travel happening after dark, almost half of fatal accidents occur at night. As our vehicles become more advanced and even autonomous, the ways of detecting and avoiding these collisions must ...
Jan 17, 2023
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Consumer & Gadgets
Hoverbike demonstration to take place in Detroit
As a boy, Shuhei Komatsu loved Star Wars movies, especially the lightning-fast land speeders.
Sep 15, 2022
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Telecom
ESA technology for safer, smarter European roads
An agreement signed yesterday looks to extend the use of ESA space technology along European roads. The Agency's Navigation Directorate has finalized a Memorandum of Intent with ERTICO, the organization for the European Road ...
Aug 24, 2022
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