Consumer & Gadgets
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
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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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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Engineering
Electric solid propellants are being explored for use in dual-mode rocket engines because they aren't susceptible to ignite from a spark or flame and can be turned on and off electrically.
Sep 03, 2019
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Other
British cyclist Neil Campbell recently set a new record for the men's "fastest bicycle in a slipstream," clocking up a breathtaking 280km per hour.
Aug 29, 2019
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Computer Sciences
In recent weeks I managed to decrypt a difficult cipher that, despite expert codebreakers' best efforts, had remained unsolved for 70 years.
Aug 29, 2019
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Internet
All wireless carriers admit to doing it: They slow down internet speed for video streaming, sometimes claiming that it is necessary to do so in order to control network congestion. It's probably why the YouTube trailer for ...
Aug 28, 2019
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Energy & Green Tech
The most productive places on Earth for solar power are farmlands, according to an Oregon State University study.
Aug 08, 2019
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Engineering
Increasing the forward speed of helicopters has the potential to save lives by expediting access to medical care. The Center for Flow Physics and Control (CeFPaC) and the Center for Mobility with Vertical Lift (MOVE) at Rensselaer ...
Jul 31, 2019
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Automotive
Monday was neither stormy nor blue for startup UVeye, which announced investors in a pool of $31 million, a further signal that UVeye is on to something important in the form of vehicle inspection driven by AI.
Jul 24, 2019 weblog
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Hardware
NVIDIA and ARM make one power couple for supercomputing. NVIDIA has announced its chips will work with ARM processors. Outside observers got busy earlier this week assessing why this was a big deal to empower both companies ...
Jun 18, 2019 weblog
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Hi Tech & Innovation
Testing for a train capable of 249mph (400 kph) speeds is to happen about twice a week at night. Bloomberg said ALFA-X is the world's fastest bullet train— well, for now, it is holding that title. Japan has also been working ...
May 14, 2019 weblog
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Computer Sciences
A new, open-road test of adaptive cruise control demonstrated that the feature, designed to make driving easier by continuously adjusting a vehicle's speed in response to the car ahead, doesn't yet solve the problem of phantom ...
May 08, 2019
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Engineering
When traveling at five times the speed of sound or faster, the tiniest bit of turbulence is more than a bump in the road, said the Sandia National Laboratories aerospace engineer who for the first time characterized the vibrational ...
May 02, 2019
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Hardware
High-performance computing (HPC)—the use of supercomputers and parallel processing techniques to solve large computational problems—is of great use in the scientific community. For example, scientists at the U.S. Department ...
Apr 16, 2019
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