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Deep Learning for Diagnostic Medicine
A machine-learning method known as “deep learning,” which uses multi-layered artificial neural networks to automate data analysis, is also being used in ways that could aid diagnostic medicine.
Proto Labs Reaches Agreement to Acquire RAPID, Expands Services with Sheet Metal Fabrication
Proto Labs is acquiring the New Hampshire-based custom parts supplier specializing in quick-turn sheet metal fabrication and CNC machining.
Socket Your 293 pin BGA Using Extreme Temperature Socket with Superior Electrical Performance
Ironwood Electronics has introduced a new BGA socket addressing high-performance requirements for Micro Controller Units.
Three Questions You Always Wanted to Ask An Airplane Pilot
What happens when you flush at 35,000 feet up? How does in-flight Wi-Fi work? What happens if a window breaks or a door opens?
This Test Track Will Challenge Autonomous Vehicles
The Virginia Tech Transportation Institute and the Virginia Department of Transportation are expanding an autonomous vehicle test facility known as the Virginia Smart Road.
Metering Pumps for Tough, Thick and Corrosive Jobs
For really tough metering applications, Vector Peristaltic Pumps by Wanner Engineering handle aggressive, high-viscosity and high-purity fluids. Vector pumps are ideal for pumping challenging fluids without altering their composition.
German Ban on Child Watches with Listening App
Certain smartwatches, particularly the kinds marketed to children, have been banned by German regulators because they are in violation of Germany’s surveillance restrictions.
Hot Cooking Oil Droplets May Contribute to Air Pollution
Hot oil droplets that often leap from the frying pan as we cook have the potential to not only cause painful burns. They also have the potential to contribute to indoor air pollution, according to a recent study.
Engineering Insight: Proximity Sensors
This graph summarizes the search tendencies displayed by Engineering360 users with respect to the industry they identified with while registering. The graph shows the search contribution each industry makes in the specified areas relative to the search contribution each industry makes across eddy current proximity sensors, fiber optic proximity sensors, Hall Effect proximity sensors, inductive proximity sensors and photoelectric sensors areas.
NASA Launches Next-Generation Weather Satellite
The satellite is designed to monitor global weather and help improve forecasts up to seven days.
Giving Voice to Immobilized Patients through Brain-Computer Interface
A biomedical engineering firm has developed a system that uses brain-computer interface (BCI) technology to help cognitively-aware patients who are otherwise unable to communicate.
Intel and Parley SnotBot Use Game-changing Artificial Intelligence and Drones to Advance Whale Research
Through the collaboration of Intel, Parley for the Oceans and Parley Snotbot, scientists are now able to collect more and better real-time data from whales without invasive means or any disturbance to the whales at all.
Achieving Nanometer Precision
Positioning devices capable of nanometer or sub-nanometer resolution that are equipped with direct metrology position feedback provide excellent guiding accuracy over long travel ranges.
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.
Google Maps to Get New Look
Google Maps will soon be getting a makeover with improved navigation, driving, transit and explore views.
Software to Locate Hate Groups' Radicalization Pages
"I'm interested in the ideologies that could drive people to commit such terrible acts," says Etudo.
Watch NASA’s Supersonic Parachute Test for Mars 2020 Mission
A NASA Mars rover mission set to launch in 2020 will collect rock samples and analyze other evidence in search of ancient life. But first, the equipment has to get there and land safely.
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.
A Meat-free America Simulation
For decades, many science community insiders have suggested that entirely eliminating animal food products from U.S. manufacturing, sales and consumption would have only a positive impact in terms of health and the environment. To test that theory, researchers from Virginia Polytechnic Institute and the United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) conducted a simulation exercise to illustrate the consequences of Americans going meat-free.
Fruit Flies May Hold the Key to Better Search Engines
Salk and University of California San Diego scientists have discovered that fruit flies are especially efficient at performing similarity searches.