A new cordless virtual reality device consists of two directional "phased-array" antennas, each less than half the size of a credit card. Future versions could be small enough for users to have several in a single room, enabling multi-player...
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The value and scale of information grows unstoppably and data centers must size-up if they are to adequately meet their operational requirements.
The widespread use of cloud computing and Big Data comes hand-in-hand with the need for...
Moving across a square groups of people create patterns which can be analyzed mathematically. Credit: Andreas Battenberg / TUM
For a long time, mathematical modelling of social systems and dynamics was considered in the realm of science fiction. But predicting,...
A team of MSU College of Engineering researchers is developing new technology that not only warns of indoor air pollution, but also provides a weekly profiling report that helps homeowners monitor indoor air quality. Photo courtesy of Mi Zhang.
Air...
Featuring an AURIX™ microcontroller, one of the world’s most powerful minicomputers, “Sub1 Reloaded” managed to solve a Rubik’s Cube within 637 milliseconds, the best time upon invention of the cube 30 years ago.Credit: Infineon
The Rubik’s Cube was solved in...
From left to right, Wenyao Xu, University at Buffalo assistant professor of computer science and engineering, and undergraduate Kun Woo Cho, show a smartphone with the autism tracking software they are developing. The purple blotches show where a child...
Precautionary approaches to governance of emerging technology, which call for constraints on the use of technology whose potential harms and other outcomes are highly uncertain, are often criticized for reflecting "risk panics," but precaution can be consistent with support...
Of the vast wealth of information unlocked by the Internet, most is plain text. The data necessary to answer myriad questions—about, say, the correlations between the industrial use of certain chemicals and incidents of disease, or between patterns of...
A system developed by researchers at MIT and Stony Brook University should make it easier for researchers to solve complex computational problems using dynamic programming optimized for multicore chips — without the expertise that such programming typically requires.Image: MIT...
USB stick that tests for HIV. Credit: Imperial College London / DNA Electronics
Scientists have developed a type of HIV test on a USB stick.
The device, created by scientists at Imperial College London and DNA Electronics, uses a drop of...
The robot's drive train including the dual-hemisphere system.Credit: Image courtesy of University of Twente
Future robots that continuously inspect our dykes, don't come across an electrical charging station every few hours. Using a smart gear box for the robot, UT...
