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A touch of zirconium to better catch the sun 2 min read

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A touch of zirconium to better catch the sun

Erkan Aydin is part of the KAUST team working on transparent conductive films that let through a broader range of the solar spectrum to improve... Read More

FAA orders inspections of Boeing 737 NG planes for structural cracks 1 min read

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FAA orders inspections of Boeing 737 NG planes for structural cracks

US aviation regulators ordered inspections on Boeing 737 NG planes after Boeing discovered structural cracks on a plane in China The Federal Aviation Administration has... Read More

Artificial intelligence opens new window on complex urban issues 5 min read

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Artificial intelligence opens new window on complex urban issues

Workers from the Chicago Department of Transportation install a node for the Array of Things, a distributed sensing network for urban environments, at Damen and... Read More

Discoveries in sensor technology advance personalized medicine 3 min read

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Discoveries in sensor technology advance personalized medicine

Credit: Shutterstock Imagine a world where you could present your personal physician with a year’s worth of not only your real time heart rate and... Read More

Object identification and interaction with a smartphone knock 2 min read

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Object identification and interaction with a smartphone knock

Professor Lee (far right) demonstrate 鈥楰nocker鈥?with his students. Credit: KAIST A KAIST team has featured a new technology, “Knocker,” which identifies objects and executes actions... Read More

Hydrogen fuel is getting buzz, but here's why it hasn't gone mainstream 3 min read

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Hydrogen fuel is getting buzz, but here's why it hasn't gone mainstream

Credit: 5W Infographics The hydrogen fuel that launches NASA rockets into space and provides electrical power via fuel cells produces only one waste product: water... Read More

Smartphone typing speeds catching up with keyboards 3 min read

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Smartphone typing speeds catching up with keyboards

An animation showing a screen capture of the typing test on mobile. Credit: Aalto Unviersity The largest experiment to date on mobile typing sheds new... Read More

Tesla V10.0 car software update adds Smart Summon, Netflix, Hulu, YouTube and Spotify 2 min read

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Tesla V10.0 car software update adds Smart Summon, Netflix, Hulu, YouTube and Spotify

Credit: CC0 Public Domain Tesla drivers got a Thursday gift from the company—a software update that lets drivers watch Netflix, YouTube or Hulu while parked... Read More

California island Catalina gets its closeup with new macOS 3 min read

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California island Catalina gets its closeup with new macOS

Credit: CC0 Public Domain They don’t sell computers on Catalina island, Windows or Macintosh. Same for new smartphones. Speaking of phones, connectivity can be really... Read More

Uber is reportedly testing out an audio recording feature that lets you report your driver 2 min read

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Uber is reportedly testing out an audio recording feature that lets you report your driver

Credit: CC0 Public Domain Uber may be testing out a feature that lets you voice record your driver and report it to the company if... Read More

PlayStation slashes price of cloud video game service 2 min read

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PlayStation slashes price of cloud video game service

PlayStation Now subscription prices were cut by about half in the US to $10 monthly, the same cost as Stadia Pro subscriptions available with a... Read More

The blockchain concept 1 min read

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The blockchain concept

Credit: CC0 Public Domain Blockchain is the technology that underpins cryptocurrencies such as Bitcoin. Fundamentally, the blockchain is simply a ledger, a digital record of... Read More

Facebook launches 'Threads' app woven into Instagram 2 min read

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Facebook launches 'Threads' app woven into Instagram

Facebook launched a visual messaging app that ties into Instagram lists of “close friends,” ramping up its challenge to rival Snapchat Facebook on Thursday launched... Read More

A model to determine the impact of DDoS attacks using Twitter data 3 min read

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A model to determine the impact of DDoS attacks using Twitter data

An example of tweets that inspired the research study. Credit: Zhang et al. Distributed denial of service (DDoS) attacks, which are designed to prevent legitimate... Read More

System helps smart devices find their position 5 min read

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System helps smart devices find their position

A system designed by researchers at MIT and elsewhere enables interconnected smart devices to cooperatively pinpoint their positions in noisy environments where GPS usually fails,... Read More

A second display treat arrives for Android 3 min read

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A second display treat arrives for Android

Duet Display has been brought to Android. Duet is the company behind the app Duet Display, which has attracted fans for the way it provides... Read More

New technique stretches out MRI scans of placentas so they can be more accurately analyzed 4 min read

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New technique stretches out MRI scans of placentas so they can be more accurately analyzed

An algorithm developed at MIT takes MRI images of placentas (top) and flattens them to be more easily analyzed (middle and bottom). Credit: Massachusetts Institute... Read More