Clearing the air (inside your car)
Did you know that your biggest daily exposure to air pollutants comes while driving your car to work?
Jan 14, 2020
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Automotive
News tagged with speed
Using a robot to deploy robots in remote oceans
A researcher at the University of East Anglia (UEA) has helped design a sea-going robot to deploy research equipment in remote and inaccessible ocean locations.
Jan 10, 2020
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Business
Planes, trains and bills: Britain's big projects dilemma
A high-speed train that won't start. An overcrowded airport that can't expand. A new subway line that never runs.
Jan 08, 2020
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Automotive
Koenigsegg, a supercar challenging Swedish stereotypes
For a quarter century, Koenigsegg has been making supercars for a niche market typically reserved for Italian luxury brands, while challenging perceptions of Swedish modesty.
Jan 08, 2020
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Engineering
High-speed fire footage reveals key insights for power plant safety
High energy arcing faults are high-power electrical discharges between two or more conductors that can release tens of thousands of amps of current. They can result in explosions that reach about 35,000 degrees Celsius—about ...
Dec 05, 2019
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Semiconductors
Bending an organic semiconductor can boost electrical flow
Slightly bending semiconductors made of organic materials can roughly double the speed of electricity flowing through them and could benefit next-generation electronics such as sensors and solar cells, according to Rutgers-led ...
Dec 03, 2019
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Engineering
Visualizing multiple dimensions for big-picture analysis of wing stresses and performance
Bending, buckling, twisting, and plunging are just a few of the ways vehicles perform when in flight. Rather than analyzing these and more variables individually, aerospace engineers used a system-of-systems approach to mathematically ...
Nov 27, 2019
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Automotive
Adaptive cruise systems are not made equal
Adaptive cruise control, once only seen on luxury vehicles, has now become increasingly available on entry-level models. For example, nearly every new Honda and Toyota vehicle comes with this feature as standard equipment. ...
Nov 06, 2019
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Telecom
AT&T fined $60M for misleading with 'unlimited' plans
AT&T will pay $60 million to settle the government's allegation that it misled customers of unlimited-data plans by slowing down service for heavy users.
Nov 05, 2019
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Automotive
Caught red-handed: Automatic cameras will spot mobile-using motorists, but at what cost?
Over the years, advances in technology and transport policy have greatly impacted drivers. In the 1980s this came in the form of random breath testing, and more recently, mobile drug testing.
Nov 04, 2019
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Hi Tech & Innovation
Bloodhound's 461-mph speed is big but team eyes bigger record ahead
The Bloodhound, the darling of The Bloodhound LSR jet car project, has good reason to be praised as a speed rockstar, with speed now at 461mph (741km/h).
Nov 04, 2019 weblog
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Robotics
System prevents speedy drones from crashing in unfamiliar areas
Autonomous drones are cautious when navigating the unknown. They creep forward, frequently mapping unfamiliar areas before proceeding lest they crash into undetected objects. But this slowdown isn't ideal for drones carrying ...
Oct 28, 2019
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Consumer & Gadgets
Smartphone typing speeds catching up with keyboards
The largest experiment to date on mobile typing sheds new light on average performance of touchscreen typing and factors impacting the text input speed. Researchers from Aalto University, University of Cambridge and ETH Zürich ...
Oct 02, 2019
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Energy & Green Tech
Model helps choose wind farm locations, predicts output
The wind is always blowing somewhere, but deciding where to locate a wind farm is a bit more complicated than holding up a wet finger. Now a team of Penn State researchers have a model that can locate the best place for the ...
Sep 24, 2019
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How do supercharged racing yachts go so fast? An engineer explains
Sailing used to be considered as a rather sedate pastime. But in the past few years, the world of yacht racing has been revolutionised by the arrival of hydrofoil-supported catamarans, known as "foilers". These vessels, more ...
Sep 19, 2019
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