Engineering
Someone could hack into your pacemaker or insulin pump and potentially kill you, just by intercepting and analyzing wireless signals. This hasn't happened in real life yet, but researchers have been demonstrating for at least ...
Mar 12, 2019
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Engineering
Mechanical systems, such as engines and motors, rely on two principal types of motions of stiff components: linear motion, which involves an object moving from one point to another in a straight line; and rotational motion, ...
Feb 4, 2019
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Energy & Green Tech
According to FAO estimates, by 2025 nearly 2 billion people may not have enough drinking water to satisfy their daily needs. One of the possible solutions to this problem is desalination, namely treating seawater to make ...
Dec 17, 2018
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Energy & Green Tech
How easily, how conveniently, how fast, will I be able to charge my electric car? Simple questions and car makers are quite busy giving us answers that will impress.
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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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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