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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.
Artificial Intelligence Could Help Diagnose Crop Diseases
Identifying a disease correctly when it first appears is a crucial step for effective disease management.
Brain-Inspired Device Powers Artificial Systems
An artificial neural network used memristor synapses supporting sophisticated learning rules in order to carry out reversible learning of noisy input data.
Semi-Autonomous Buses Proposed to Reduce Traffic
The SMFe-bus has a lead module with a human driver and several driverless modules strung together without being physically attached to the lead vehicle or to each other.
New Technique for Finding Weakness in Earth's Crust
The method relies on an electromagnetic imaging technique called magnetotellurics to estimate the electrical conductivity beneath the Earth's surface.
Computer App Speeds Boosted
Researchers developed a technique in which the DRAM cache learns over time which data the processor needs from each macroblock.
Passwords Sent Securely Through the Body
“On-body” transmissions offer a more secure way to send authenticating information between a device that touches parts of the body and one confirming identity by requiring a password be entered.
Building the Next Generation of Hard Drives
Modern disk drives contain up to a million tracks per inch and track widths as narrow as 25 nanometers—and that density increases every year.
Is U.S. Construction Resisting Technology?
The survey responses reflect the industry’s innate conservatism toward technologies.
Acoustic Resonator May Enhance Communication
One feature of the system is that it operates at 10 gigahertz, which allows for a high signal-processing speed.
Room-Temperature Multiferroic Material Developed
In electronics, the advantages of multiferroics include their reversible polarization in response to low-power electric fields and the ability to hold their polarized state without continuous power.
Pegasus TransTech, Geotab Team on Fleet Management System
Transflo includes data and telematics software for fleet managers.
Could Smart City Technologies Leave Municipalities at Risk?
Eighty-eight percent of IT professionals polled say a cyberattack targeting critical city infrastructure would pose a threat to public safety.
Extending Battery Life for Mobile Devices
The researchers designed a radio with the ability to offload energy to larger devices nearby, in effect making both device size and battery consumption proportional to the size of battery.
"Phase Separation" in Oxides Could Produce a Multifunctional Chip
The ORNL proof-of-principle experiment shows that phase-separated materials could be a way beyond the “one-chip-fits-all” approach.