Energy & Green Tech
As electric cars and trucks appear increasingly on U.S. highways, it raises the question: When will commercially viable electric vehicles take to the skies? There are a number of ambitious efforts to build electric-powered ...
Nov 27, 2018
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Energy & Green Tech
To predict when morning traffic is likely to grind to a halt, it may be more effective to examine how we use electricity in the middle of the night instead of travel-time data. By analyzing household electricity use in Austin, ...
Jun 21, 2018
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Energy & Green Tech
Carbon-free energy: Is the answer blowing in the wind? Perhaps, but the wind doesn't always blow, nor does the sun always shine. The energy generated by wind and solar power is intermittent, meaning that the generated electricity ...
Feb 2, 2018
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Computer Sciences
The modern "smart" city, says Jie Liu, is a web of networks that should run like a healthy, well-tuned circulatory system.
Jul 14, 2017
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Computer Sciences
A webpage today is often the sum of many different components. A user's home page on a social-networking site, for instance, might display the latest posts from the users' friends; the associated images, links, and comments; ...
Mar 28, 2017
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Computer Sciences
When data sets get too big, sometimes the only way to do anything useful with them is to extract much smaller subsets and analyze those instead.
Dec 16, 2016
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Robotics
In interacting with humans, robots must first and foremost be safe. If a household robot, for example, encounters a human, it should not continue its movements regardless, but rather give way in case of doubt. Researchers ...
May 16, 2016
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Computer Sciences
Most people with smartphones use a range of applications that collect personal information and store it on Internet-connected servers—and from their desktop or laptop computers, they connect to Web services that do the ...
Mar 18, 2016
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Energy & Green Tech
Self-driving cars may one day take a direction away from wires that are needed to plug in for charging.
