Storing energy in red bricks
Imagine plugging in to your brick house.
Aug 11, 2020
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News tagged with home
Consumer & Gadgets
Researchers report 'Sweyntooth' vulnerabilities in 480 Bluetooth devices
Researchers from Singapore say they have found security flaws in more than 480 Bluetooth devices including smart home gadgets, fitness bracelets and medical instruments. The vulnerabilities, which were found in Bluetooth ...
Feb 25, 2020 report
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Wearable brain-machine interface could control a wheelchair, vehicle or computer
Combining new classes of nanomembrane electrodes with flexible electronics and a deep learning algorithm could help disabled people wirelessly control an electric wheelchair, interact with a computer or operate a small robotic ...
Sep 20, 2019
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New window system cuts sound levels by 26 decibels, achieves four times better ventilation
Home owners, especially those in noisy districts, can look forward to greater living comfort with a new invention by researchers from the National University of Singapore (NUS) School of Design and Environment (SDE) that ...
Feb 04, 2021
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Computer Sciences
Teaching computers the meaning of sensor names in smart homes
The UPV/EHU's IXA group has use natural language processing techniques to overcome one of the major difficulties associated with smart homes, namely that the systems developed to infer activities in one environment do not ...
Dec 01, 2020
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Energy & Green Tech
Energy efficient heat pump technology increases the value of homes in the U.S.
Launched this week in Nature Energy, a new study led by the Center for Global Sustainability (CGS) researchers examines the cost of heat pump installation in American households and the effect on house prices and home values. ...
Oct 21, 2020
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Device tracks house appliances through vibration, AI
To boost efficiency in typical households—where people forget to take wet clothes out of washing machines, retrieve hot food from microwaves and turn off dripping faucets—Cornell University researchers have developed ...
Sep 09, 2020
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Android 11 update offers tweaks and enhancements
They say good things come in small packages. This week's launch of the final release of Android 11 brings no big new attractions but rather several modest-size ones that should please most users.
Sep 09, 2020 report
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New chips to bring Mac computers into iPhone ecosystem (Update)
Apple said Monday it would build its own chips to power its Mac computers to create a "common architecture" that allows the devices to run the same apps as those on the iPhone and iPad.
Jun 22, 2020
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Secure smart-home entry via earprint
Fingerprints and DNA are widely known forms of biometrics, thanks to crime dramas on television. But as technology advances the Internet of Things, the interconnection of computer devices in common objects, other forms of ...
May 15, 2020
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