Engineering
Picture a tablet that you can fold into the size of a phone and put away in your pocket, or an artificial skin that can sense your body's movements and vital signs. A new, inexpensive sensor developed at the University of ...
Mar 15, 2017
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Engineering
A trio of computer security researchers at Universidad de la República Montevideo, in Uruguay, reports that it is possible to reproduce text on a computer screen by eavesdropping on its HDMI cable. Santiago Fernández Emilio ...
Electronics & Semiconductors
A team of microelectronic engineers affiliated with several institutions in China, working with a colleague from Sweden, has demonstrated a second-generation digital display screen that uses perovskite light-emitting diodes ...
Computer Sciences
A touch screen for digital devices that can be deformed through finger pressure, becoming softer or stiffer in direct response to force applied by the user, has been developed by computer scientists at the University of Bath ...
May 28, 2024
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Software
The best way to help smartphone users manage their screen time may be to make phones progressively more annoying to use, according to new University of Michigan research.
May 14, 2024
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Consumer & Gadgets
AI researchers at Google's DeepMind, working with colleagues at the University of British Columbia, have announced the development of Genie, an AI-backed application capable of turning a single image into a playable 2D virtual ...
Consumer & Gadgets
In George Orwell's novel "1984," Big Brother watches citizens through two-way, TV-like telescreens to surveil citizens without any cameras. In a similar fashion, our current smart devices contain ambient light sensors, which ...
Jan 17, 2024
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Consumer & Gadgets
A new smartphone case could soon enable folks with visual impairments, tremors and spasms to use touch screens independently. Developed at the University of Michigan, BrushLens could help users perceive, locate and tap buttons ...
Oct 26, 2023
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Consumer & Gadgets
It's a scenario many of us are familiar with: You sit down on the couch after a long day at work and turn on Netflix. A trailer for a show you've never heard of automatically starts playing on your home screen, and you notice ...
Dec 21, 2022
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Consumer & Gadgets
Could your smartphone be spying on you?
Apr 4, 2022
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Screening, in general, is the investigation of a great number of something (for instance, people) looking for those with a particular problem or feature. One example is at an airport, where many bags get x-rayed to try to detect any which may contain weapons or explosives. People are also screened going through a metal detector. Even though the procedure aims at a large number of screens, it is always equivalent to sampling in statistics, because the complete population is almost always inaccessible for screening.
Screening has other, more specific meanings:
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