Business
Long-haul carrier Emirates opened the Dubai Air Show on Monday with a $52 billion purchase of Boeing Co. aircraft, showing how aviation has bounced back after the groundings of the coronavirus pandemic, even as Israel's war ...
Nov 13, 2023
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Consumer & Gadgets
Last week I wrote about setting up Amazon Echo devices to enable making phone calls with your voice, which could be helpful in an emergency. I mentioned falling and not having a phone within reach to call for help.
Oct 25, 2023
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Energy & Green Tech
Evidence of the clean-energy transition abounds, with solar panels dotting rooftops, parking lots, and open spaces. In Massachusetts, future proliferation of these sunlight-soaking cells will be a high priority: About five ...
Oct 16, 2023
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Engineering
Asphalt is primarily known for use in roadways, but it's also used to pave playgrounds, bicycle paths, running tracks and tennis and basketball courts—all platforms for activities where breathing toxic fumes can be dangerous. ...
Sep 22, 2023
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Automotive
Deadly traffic incidents have declined in most developed countries in recent years. But in the U.S. they're becoming more common. Deaths in motor vehicle crashes rose more than 33% from 2011 to 2021. Since 2010, pedestrian ...
Aug 3, 2023
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Consumer & Gadgets
Customers at Lowe's stores across Philadelphia have encountered an unexpected sight in the parking lots over the last month—a 5-foot-tall, egg-shaped security robot that makes a cosmic whirring sound as it glides across ...
Mar 15, 2023
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Computer Sciences
Assessing the optimal location for parking lots is surprisingly mathematically challenging, and a subset of a classic computational complexity problem with far wider applications. A team of data scientists has combined quantum ...
Jan 13, 2023
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Energy & Green Tech
On September 21, the New York Times published an essay by Gabriel Popkin titled "Are There Better Places to Put Large Solar Farms Than These Forests?" Popkin describes a recently approved 4,500-acre solar project in Virginia ...
Oct 27, 2022
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Energy & Green Tech
The rapid increase in electric car sales is causing a battery shortage. To solve this problem, we must get better at recycling the raw materials used in batteries and accelerate the development of new battery types.
Oct 3, 2022
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Robotics
Skoltech researchers have developed a method to enable wheeled robots to avoid obstacles in a fast, efficient, and natural way when moving in a crowded setting. Reported in IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters, the new motion ...
Sep 20, 2022
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