Industries
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Holiday Tech Gifts: What Do They Really Want?
A new survey tracks holiday gifts most desired by adults and teens, with technology items making a strong showing.
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5 Great Gifts for the Connected Homebody
The holidays are right around the corner, so there’s no time like the present to find the perfect gift for your family, particularly when they are members of a smart household.
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A New Touch in Monitoring Vital Signs
A new way to monitor vital signs in patients does not require direct contact with the skin.
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Heilind Electronics Introduces 3M Round Conductor Flat LSHF Cable
Heilind is now stocking 3M’s round conductor flat, LSHF cable, HF447 series, which is designed for low-smoke, halogen-free insulation in internal wiring applications.
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Software Can Verify and Identify DNA in Just a Few Minutes
Researchers at Columbia University and the New York Genome Center have developed a method to quickly and accurately identify people and cell lines from their DNA.
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IAR Systems Support Amazon FreeRTOS
IAR Systems will support Amazon FreeRTOS, the recently launched internet of things microcontroller operating system. IAR supplies software tools and services for embedded development.
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VDI Market To Hit $10B
As more employees work remotely rather than in a corporate office setting, implementation of cloud-based virtual desktop infrastructure (VDI) is becoming increasingly popular.
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Fast Flowing Heat in Graphene Heterostructures Discovered
Nanoscale head flow has a crucial role in many modern electronic and optoelectronic applications, like thermal management, photodetection, thermoelectrics and data communication. 2D layered materials are starting to confirm their groundbreaking role in many of these applications.
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Holiday Shoppers are Favoring Mobile and Online Retailers Over Malls and Shops
Mobile shopping is on the rise, and it isn't going away anytime soon.
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ChemSEI Extends Life of Lithium Batteries
ITRI’s new ChemSEI Linker can extend the lifespan of lithium batteries, increases battery life up to 70 percent and makes lithium batteries easier to recycle.
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Building an Ethics Roadmap for AI and Data Analytics initiative
The first ethics roadmap for a software-based decision support system uses artificial intelligence (AI) and data analytics to improve the prediction of technical safety hazards, which is anticipated to benefit public safety in British Columbia.
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MIT Engineers Rev Up 3D Printing
To make 3D printing a more realistic solution, a team of engineers from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology developed a 3D printer capable of creating builds up to 10 times faster than their consumer counterparts.
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Solar Power Puts the Petal to the Metal
Looking at solar energy as an alternative energy source but solar panels are just too ugly? The ultra-cute SmartFlower has 12 solar panel petals, and it’s plug-and-play.
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Dutch Gyroplane Company Takes Flight
This week, PAL-V was awarded the Innovation Leadership Award in the personal flying mobility market by research firm Frost & Sullivan.
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Researchers find Magnetoelectric Material Can Boost Electronic's Memory
Researchers from the University of Wisconsin-Madison discover new material can create stronger electronics.
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Scientists Make Transparent Materials Absorb Light
A group of physicists from Russia, Sweden and the U.S. have demonstrated a highly unusual optical effect. They managed to “virtually” absorb light using a material that has no light-absorbing capacity.
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New Technique Developed to Model Transplantation of the Human Liver
A team of scientists, physicians and engineers from the Center for Engineering in Medicine (CEM) and the Transplant Center of the Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH) at the Harvard Medical School in Boston, MA have reported the development of a new technology that will enable researchers to better study liver transplantation in a pre-clinical setting.
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Will 2017 Be Bitcoin’s Year?
Mainstream sources believe it to be a scam at worst or a bubble at best. But by all indicators, 2017 might be the year bitcoin grows up and at least flirts with mainstream acceptance.
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New Defense Against Hackers is Only a Few Atoms Thick
Researchers at New York University Tandon School of Engineering have introduced a new class of unclonable cybersecurity security primitives made of a low-cost nanomaterial with the highest possible level of structural randomness.
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App Lets Owners Do Errands Without Getting Into Cars
Hyundai Motor America and Smartcar are working together, connecting businesses to owners’ vehicles to help car owners do errands without leaving their parking spots.
