Electronics & Semiconductors

Tactile tattoos to make virtual worlds tangible

Virtual and augmented reality (VR and AR), often combined under the term 'extended reality (XR)', are increasingly losing their niche status and entering the mass market. Think of the metaverse, gaming, applications in industry ...

Computer Sciences

Designing a 'neural puppeteer' to recognize skeletal nodes

Imagine for a moment, that we are on a safari watching a giraffe graze. After looking away for a second, we then see the animal lower its head and sit down. But, we wonder, what happened in the meantime? Computer scientists ...

Security

Cyberattack hits major hospital in Spanish city of Barcelona

A ransomware cyberattack on one of Barcelona' s main hospitals has crippled the center's computer system and forced the cancelation of 150 nonurgent operations and up to 3,000 patient checkups, officials said Monday.

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 ...

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