HEADLINES ARCHIVE
Network Cookies" Proposed to Break Net-Neutrality Deadlock
Network Cookies allow users to choose which traffic should get favored delivery and put network operators and content providers on a level playing field in catering to such preferences.
Mixed-Reality Technology Speeds Service Calls
Using HoloLens, service technicians will be able to visualize and identify problems with elevators ahead of a job and have hands-free access to technical and expert information when on site.
Radar-Based Imaging May Improve Avalanche Protection
The system produces 3D images that reveal how snow flows deep inside avalanches.
Boeing 777X to Feature Touchscreen Flight Displays
The displays from Rockwell Collins are intended to be more intuitive for pilots and boost work efficiency.
Brain-Sensing Technology Allows Faster Typing
The technology involves a multi-electrode array implanted in the brain to directly read signals from a region that ordinarily directs hand and arm movements.
Intelligent Car-Racking System
A numerical process simulates hundreds of thousands of loading scenarios and generates recommendations on the most efficient combination of cars in each shipping container.
Liquid Refrigerant Could Save Water
The system cools like a refrigerator without the expense and energy needs of a compressor.
Hardware Used to Accelerate Core-to-Core Communication
Many computer functions require multiple processors, or cores, to work together in a coordinated way.
Machine That Could Predict Human Behavior
Scientists could use Turing Learning to discover the rules governing natural or artificial systems, especially where behavior cannot be easily characterized using similarity metrics.
Targeted Road Maintenance Could Reduce Vehicle Emissions
Maintaining just 1.5% of the roadway network could lead to a reduction of 10% in vehicle-related greenhouse gas emissions.
Torrential Downpours Predicted with Greater Accuracy
Researchers produced a high-resolution, three-dimensional distribution map of rain every 30 seconds which is 120 times faster than the hourly updated systems used by weather prediction centers today.
Volcano Masked Pace of Sea Level Rise
Climate model runs designed to remove the effect of a 1991 eruption revealed an accelerating rate of sea level rise, says NCAR.
How to Turn Music Into Colors With a Wi-Fi Bridge
Close Encounters of the Third Kind is a 1977 American science fiction film, written and directed by Steven Spielberg. As part of the movie’s theme scientists enable a computer, using light and sound patterns together, to have a musical conversation with alien guests from a UFO visiting out planet.
IoT Could Cause Energy Use to Spiral
Autonomous streaming of data by billions of sensors removes the existing potential constraints to the growth in internet energy consumption.
A Better Way to Predict Turbulence
Turbulence can be detected in a more precise way using data already being broadcast by the transponders installed in most modern commercial airplanes.
"Cubesat" Network to Study Earth’s Thermosphere
The satellites will carry out measurements of the region between 200 km and 380 km above Earth.
Artificial Intelligence Developed to Help First Responders
As an event is monitored, software learns and starts to make predictions about what resources will be needed next.
Technology Displays Traffic Light Change Clock
Audi says the feature represents its first step in vehicle-to-infrastructure integration.
Oil and Gas Production Add to Ozone Woes, Study Says
Chemical vapors from oil and gas production add around 3 ppb a day of locally produced ozone in Colorado, and potentially more on high-ozone days.
Electric Grid Vulnerabilities in Southeast U.S. Are Modeled
Electricity-demand increases caused by temperature rises are likely to have the greatest impact over the next 35 years in areas serving small populations.