HEADLINES ARCHIVE
Team Using Big Data Analytics to Automatically Detect Events in Cities
Researchers from King Abdulaziz University in Saudi Arabia — recognizing the wealth of data being generated thanks to the number of connected devices and people’s willingness to give real-time updates of their experiences — believe that harnessing data could one day improve how information concerning traffic, events and other goings-on in a city are understood and disseminated.
Facial Recognition Tech to Be Used at Tokyo Olympics
Athletes, staff members, volunteers and reporters at the Tokyo 2020 Olympics will be facing a security system unlike any used at previous Olympics: facial recognition technology.
Watch a 3D Simulation of a Snow Slab Avalanche
Acknowledging that snow in this type of event behaves as both a solid and a fluid, researchers devised the first realistic and scientifically rigorous simulation of a snow slab avalanche.
Hyperion Launches a Blockchain-based Open Mapping Architecture to Decentralize Mapping
The company plans provide the infrastructure to support a completely decentralized, self-governing global map that users anywhere can contribute to, edit or utilize for their own needs.
V2X Network Heads to the Mountains
By the end of 2018, as many as 100 roadside units will be in place along the I-70 Mountain Corridor from Golden to Vail, Colo.
Securing Our Embedded Systems
Embedded systems are an essential component of numerous mechanical and electrical devices, including ones many of us interact with on a daily basis. What can we do about their vulnerability to hacking?
Officials Seek Emergency Ban on 3D-printed Gun Designs
Despite last-minute attempts to ban them, 3D-printed gun blueprints became available online four days earlier than announced, spurring government officials to action.
First Utility-Scale Blockchain Infrastructure Company Powered by Private Renewable Energy
Soluna Technologies Ltd. is launching its utility-scale blockchain computing facility integrated with its own renewable energy resources. Soluna plans to develop its own 900 MW wind farm power plant in Morocco in one of the world’s windiest regions.
Now Available: a Digital Data Archive for Environmental Research
The Environmental System Science – Data Infrastructure for a Virtual Ecosystem (ESS-DIVE) system serves as a repository for hundreds of DOE-funded research projects.
Does Your Roughneck Know Linux and Python?
Digital oilfield vendors provide new toolsets, and whereas roughnecks were once valued for making and breaking pipe, the next-generation oilfield worker is valued for his or her ability to program and debug artificial intelligence solutions.
Considering the Impact of Climate Change on the Internet
Buried fiber optical cable in densely populated U.S. coastal regions could be submerged by rising seas in as soon as 15 years, according to a new study that assesses the risk of climate change to the internet.
U.K. Testing Warning System for Drivers Using Phones
A scheme designed to curb the number of drivers using their phones is currently underway in the U.K.
FOMO is a Major Reason People Text While They Drive According to a New Study
But even though it is widely known to be dangerous, that doesn’t stop drivers from engaging with their phones anyway, according to a new study.
Facebook Algorithm (Temporarily) Believes Declaration of Independence Post to be Hate Speech
On July 2, in the lead up to U.S. Independence Day on July 4, Facebook removed a post containing a section of the U.S. Declaration of Independence, believing it to be hate speech.
Watch: Apple Fix for Locating 911 Calls, Environmentally Friendly Explosive, More Delivery Drones
The Engineering360 video news brief for the week of July 4, 2018.
A New Approach to Invisibility
Spectral cloaking is a fundamentally new approach to an age-old challenge. It could be used to secure data transmitted over fiber optic lines, and to improve technologies used for sensing, telecommunications and information processing.
An App That Recommends Eating This and Not That
Culling information from a database of over 260,000 products, FoodSwitch relies on users crowdsourcing information concerning the U.S. food supply, which means that the data is constantly up-to-date.
Facebook Working on Feature for Users to Track Time Spent on the Platform
While it might not come as much of a surprise that the majority of folks on social media are wasting a significant amount of time on social media, Facebook users in particular will have access to actual numbers thanks to a new Facebook feature.
Orlando Drops Amazon's Controversial Facial Recognition Tech...For Now
After a trial of an Amazon-created facial recognition technology program — called Rekognition — the city of Orlando, Florida’s police department has announced that it will no longer employ the technology amid criticism from privacy advocates.
Alexa Is Acting Creepy...Again
Following news that Alexa could erupt into spontaneous, creepy laughter, and amid concerns that Alexa-enabled Amazon Echo devices are recording private conversations, comes even more disturbing news.