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Engineering a Good Night's Sleep
Sleep deprivation is a large problem for all types of professionals. Leave it to a set of entrepreneurs to design a solution to help you get a good night's sleep. Utilizing Bluetooth and induction charging technology makes the SleepPhones® by AcousticSheep LLC an excellent choice to get a good sleep.
Fooling Speaker Recognition Systems with Voice Impersonators
Often used to authenticate the user of an application or for public safety purposes, voice recognition is likely more vulnerable to live voice impersonators that can make voice modifications than to the technically-generated voice attacks.
Microsoft to Cut Carbon Emissions
Despite plans to expand its business, consequently upping its electricity requirements, Microsoft pledged on Tuesday to cut carbon emissions created by its operations by 75 percent by 2030.
High EMI Shielding and Environmental Seal from Tech-Etch
Supershield 1,000 series from Tech-Etch is a silicone or fluorosilicone elastomer gasket material that is filled with conductive metal particles to provide high EMI shielding and an environmental seal.
Researchers Use A SPIM System with Two Lenses to View High Quality Biospecimens
Researchers from the National Institutes of Health and the University of Chicago improved the speed, resolution and light efficiency of an optical microscope by switching from a conventional glass coverslip to a reflective, mirrored coverslip and applying new computer algorithms to process the resulting data.
Flexible Photonic Devices Conform to Uneven Surfaces
Devices fabricated with chalcogenide can bend and stretch, and could find use as wearable or implanted medical devices or as flexible connectors for electronics.
Restaurant Wait Time Feature Added to Google
The days of waiting for a table at your favorite restaurant to open up may be gone forever thanks to a new feature available from Google.
It's Official: Twitter Doubles Character Limit to 280
Have twice the things to tweet? Twitter announced on Tuesday that it will oblige, doubling the number of characters per tweet from 140 to 280.
Liquid Transistor Could Enable Programmable Material
A breakthrough in the development of liquid electronics could pave the way to producing soft, flexible electronic devices.
New Ultrafast Scan Rate Miniature Spectrometer for High Speed Applications!
The Ocean FX® from Ocean Optics is a versatile spectrometer with acquisition speed up to 4,500 scans per second, onboard averaging of up to 5,000 spectra for improved signal to ratio (SNR) and minimal data transfer time. Ocean FX is an excellent choice for high-speed process applications, measurement of fast events, and reaction monitoring!
Students Develop Eye-activated Controller
The sensor, called Vee Vee, will be placed on the wearer’s temple and will, through commands sent via eye movement, allow the wearer to control items such as electric wheelchairs, door locks and drones.
USDA Approves Grants, Loans for Rural Infrastructure
The U.S. Department of Agriculture is investing more than $2.7 billion in rural electric infrastructure and broadband improvements in multiple states.
Shopping with Amazon's New Augmented Reality Feature
Joining a growing number of retailers adding augmented reality (AR) features to their apps and websites, Amazon announced this week the launch of its new AR feature called AR View, which is available in the Amazon app for iOS devices.
Using AI to Prevent Suicide
Training an artificial intelligence computer program to both recognize and identify emotions, a professor of psychology at Carnegie Mellon believes that how the brain processes certain words can be an important indicator of suicidal tendencies in an individual.
Traffic Signal Countdown Timers May Reduce Fatal Car Accidents
With roughly 20 percent of fatal traffic accidents in the United States occurring in dilemma zones (intersections where drivers decide to stop or go when a traffic light changes from green to yellow) in 2016, researchers from Oregon State University believe that traffic signal countdown timers (TSCT) will help reduce that percentage.
Television Advertisements Tailored to the Viewer
Watching television could become an entirely different experience thanks to software called Dive that lets the viewer control advertisements with the touch of a button.
Watch: Snowflake Fractals
A surprising finding when applying low voltage to an alloy of gallium has implications for the shape control of liquid metals, and the development of electronic, electromagnetic and optical devices that take advantage of their metallic properties.
The Robot Uprising Won't Be as Dire as First Predicted
As the threat of being replaced by robots and other technology looms, workers can rest a bit easier with the release of a new study that re-examines the percentage of workers likely to be replaced by automation.
New, High-tech Terminal Opens in Singapore Airport
A new terminal in Singapore’s Changi Airport opened this week, offering travelers a fully automated experience.
Small Words May Reveal Identity of Email Author
According to a research team from Nottingham Trent University, an email’s author can be determined from just a couple of words.