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Beware Your Software
If you think that you are immune to workplace injuries because you sit in front of a computer, think again. Researchers have found that a poorly designed software package can produce hand and wrist problems.
Next Steps for IoT Factory Optimization
Hitachi will implement two new industrial field work-optimization cores for its IoT platform, Lumada.
Are Road Signs Distracting?
Concerned with a trend in multiple road signs being grouped together along Australian freeways, researchers explored whether or not the collection of signs are distracting drivers.
New Technology Keeps Elderly Safe at Home
Researchers from the Fraunhofer Institute for Experimental Software Engineering IESE in Kaiserslautern, Germany, with the goal of giving the elderly a sense of security in their own homes without invading their privacy, have developed a new technology concept that can offer both assistance in the case of a fall without invasive cameras and is also a communication tool offering access to nursing consultants.
Using Heat to Predict Species Most Threatened by Climate Change
To predict the degree of suffering of a species from the effects of climate change, research from Monash University examines the role of heat resistance (thermal history).
Some Regions are Getting Hotter, Some Colder
Some parts of the planet are becoming cooler and other parts are becoming warmer thanks to an increase in localized greening, according to evidence unearthed by a research team with the Directorate for Sustainable Resources in Italy and Ghent University in Belgium.
Biosensers Using the Body's Own Cells
The idea of implanting a device housing live cells into the body to act as a biosensenor able to detect changes and threats in the body is both technically difficult to achieve and very attractive to the scientific community.
Combatting Forgery with Paper Fingerprints
Researchers were able to identify a unique ‘texture’ fingerprint by analyzing translucent patterns by shining a light through paper.
Based on Bitcoin: A New System for Online Security
MIT researchers have devised a new system to defend against online identity theft, using the security machinery of Bitcoin.
Visualization Program Protects Statistical Significance
In the modern age, it’s easy for users to explore large data sets for correlations. Unfortunately, the ability to ask unending questions of the same data series increases the chance for false discoveries.
Trimble Targets Ag Growth with Müller-Elektronik Buy
Trimble says that it plans to buy privately held Müller-Elektronik, a German company specializing in implement control and precision farming.
Protecting Autonomous Vehicles from Cyberattack
As vehicles become more and more autonomous — internet-enabled, self-driving — their vulnerability to cyberattacks becomes greater and greater. As a result, Texas A&M University researchers have created an intelligent transportation system prototype to prevent collisions and to help thwart autonomous vehicle hacking attempts.
Drone Provides Tornado Damage Assessment in Oklahoma
Small unmanned aerial systems provided real-time support for disaster response efforts after the May 16 event.
What’s Standing Between You and Your Results?
Engineers in every corner of the world are tasked with a straightforward yet incredibly complex challenge: solving the unsolvable. As if that weren’t enough, they’re also expected to solve the unsolvable faster and with fewer resources than ever before.
Device to Prevent Runner Injury
The mobile biofeedback device offers footstrike modification to prevent running injuries or to offer rehabilitation to already injured runners.
Holograms: The Future of Electronic Devices
The nano-hologram created by researchers can be seen without 3-D goggles and is 1,000 times thinner than a human hair. Producing the hologram by fast direct laser writing will allow for its mass production in the very near future.
Using AI to Aid Humanitarian Efforts
Using a newly developed AI algorithm that can accurately identify the gender of a pre-paid cell phone user may expedite help to vulnerable groups like woman and children in an emergency situation, according to researchers.
Apple CEO Tests Out Glucose Tracker
Hoping to take the sting out of current methods of glucose testing, Apple CEO Tim Cook has been wearing a glucose tracker prototype paired with an Apple Watch.
A Sensor to Watch Your Appliances
Detecting light, sound, vibrations, temperature, heat and electromagnetic signals from the appliances, the sensors use machine learning algorithms to determine what that data means in relation to how the appliances are being used.
Glucose Monitor with Cloud Communications Cleared in U.S., Europe
The device offers automatic transmission of diabetes information to a cloud-based personalized web portal.