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AI Creates Synthetic Fingerprints
Researchers successfully fooled a touch-based authentication system in their trials of the fake fingerprints.
New Resistors Designed for Medical Equipment, Laser Systems and Pulse Generators
New Yorker Electronics has released RCD Components' miniature 300 W non-inductive, low-profile chassis mount resistors in both the CM300 and CM300L series.
Vishay Intertechnology Announces New EMI Suppression Film Capacitors
The new devices will serve as EMC filters for automotive and industrial power inverters.
Preventing Catastrophe: Verification and Validation
Verification and validation at each step of an engineering project are essential to managing the risk of potentially catastrophic failure.
Precise Atomic Clocks to Improve Measurement of Gravity and Dark Matter
Experimental atomic clocks have achieved record performance in three metrics: systematic uncertainty, stability and reproducibility.
Study: Restaurants Are Significant Air Pollution Contributors
As if it wasn’t enough to worry about the volatile organic compounds (VOCs) emitting from common household cleaners used in the home, now comes word that even restaurants aren’t safe from such emissions.
Siemens Wins Turbine Order for Michigan Power Plant
The new plant will use three SGT-800s: two operating in combined cycle and one in simple cycle.
Video: MIT Develops a Solid-State Plane Powered by Ionic Wind
The aircraft could one day provide an alternative to fossil fuel-burning airplanes.
Video: A Stable, Inexpensive Catalyst for Electrochemical Water Splitting
Cheaper and more efficient materials demonstrated for producing hydrogen could replace current water-splitting catalysts.
Researchers Use Algorithm to Determine Most Influential Film of All Time
Because AI is quickly becoming part of everyday life, it should come as no surprise that it would be applied to every industry imaginable, making sense of the world we live in.
NASA Looks to Aerospace Vendors for New Moon Delivery Service
NASA looks to aerospace vendors for new Moon delivery service.
New Ultra-Wideband Distributed Driver Amplifier MMIC Released
Monolithic microwave integrated circuit (MMIC) developer Custom MMIC has just released the CMD292 — a new wideband distributed driver amplifier MMIC.
Another Record for Concentrator PV Module Efficiency
A record concentrator photovoltaic (PV) module efficiency of 41.4% has been attained under the EU-funded CPVMatch project.
Stratospheric Aerosol Injection Weighed as a Solar Geoengineering Option
The initiative would inject sulfates into the lower stratosphere at altitudes of about 20 km halve any increase in anthropogenic radiative forcing.
Chinese Ink Paints a Promising Picture for Solar Steam Generation
The ink possesses the photothermal properties ideal for freshwater production via solar steam generation.
How to Upgrade Your Filling and Packaging Lines
Upgrade your packaging and filling lines to maximize production throughput and increase profitability.
Proved Crude Oil Reserves Hit a Record in 2017
Proved reserves of U.S. crude oil rose 19.5% from the end of 2016, reaching 39.2 billion barrels, the Energy Department said.
Utility Releases Timeline of Events Prior to Camp Fire
By the afternoon of November 8, weather conditions had improved to the point where the utility no longer saw a need to de-energize service.
IBM Watson and Kronos to Offer Hourly Employees Career Guidance
A new collaboration between IBM Watson and the workforce management platform Kronos will offer hourly workers access to a virtual career coach.
Baby Boomers are Delaying Retirement to Care for Parents
Half of Americans in their sixties are supporting either a parent or an adult child and 1.2 million baby boomers are caring for both, according to a Pew research study.