HEADLINES ARCHIVE
Traveling Over the Holidays? RFID Could Help
Improvements in baggage handling rates may not have to come at a significant cost.
Hardware Weakness Enables Operating System Attacks
By manipulating a CPU’s branch predictor to exploit a weak point in ASLR software, computer hackers could take control of individual, company and government computers.
Engineer’s Guide to Copper vs. Fiber
An efficient modular infrastructure is required to adapt to fast-moving business requirements, increasing port and cable densities, and rapid deployment needs. But which to use: copper or fiber?
Electricity Used to Track Water, Identify Concrete Degradation
The technology can determine where and whether water is infiltrating concrete, as well as how fast it is moving, how much water there is and how existing cracks are influencing the water movement.
Photos Used to Catalog Building Damage
The researchers have to train the algorithms to recognize scenes and locate objects in the images.
Could Bacteria Create Building Foundations?
Researchers are modifying E. coli bacteria to create a "gene circuit" that would enable the bacteria to respond to their environment by producing biocements.
"Clever Buoy" Uses Sonar and Software to Warn of Sharks
The system uses multibeam sonar transducers that are mounted on the ocean floor, together with custom detection software, to scan for shark-like objects.
A Solution for Phantom Load
All electronics have switches that turn electrical flow on and off throughout the circuitry. But unlike a mechanical switch, these waste small doses of electricity while they are in a waiting state.
90% of Cyberattacks Are "Known" Threats
Most attackers are targeting businesses using forms of attack we already know about and can defend against.
Wireless Device Alerts Drivers on Emissions
The device captures raw data from the vehicle’s engine and emissions systems and transmits it in real time to cloud servers, where it is processed into actionable information.
Laptop Charger Standard Aims to Reduce e-Waste
According to ITU, one million tons of external power supplies are manufactured each year.
Design for an Infinitesimal Computing Device
Key to the design is the use of a logic system called material implication logic combined with memristors.
Carpark Air Purification Reduces Particulates
Since the ventilation systems of underground carparks are in contact with the streets above, these garages have a considerable influence on the air quality in the city center.
IBM's Watson to Support GM's Updated OnStar System
Watson will learn the driver's preferences, apply machine learning, and sift through data to recognize patterns in driver decisions and habits.
Mobile Locator Helps Ensure User Privacy
The core of the system is a hashing-based image-matching algorithm that is more than 500 times cheaper than state-of-the-art image-matching techniques.
Next Century Will Bring Deep Water to New York City
The new study reports that floods as intense as Superstorm Sandy’s would have occurred about once every 400 years, on average, under the sea-level-rise conditions of the year 2000.
Data Centers Cause Buildings' Electricity Use to Spiral
Cooling electricity intensity in buildings with data centers was found to be almost double that of other buildings in both the smallest and largest categories of office buildings surveyed.
Using Big Data to Solve Bus Woes in Brazil
The system incorporates analysis of two years of data from the Fortaleza bus system, used by an estimated 90% of the city's 3 million residents, who collectively take 30 million trips a month.
Making Construction Sites Safer with Virtual Reality
The engineers are making the most of the fact that every large construction site today is first planned virtually before it is actually built.
Outage Management App Wins Itron Award
The winner was a mobile and web application for outage management that predicts and proactively communicates outages to customers.