This Sept. 24, 2017 file photo shows a Maserati Ghibli Granlusso on display during the first media day of the International Frankfurt Motor Show IAA... Read More
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Facebook’s virtual reality unit Oculus has unveiled a new “social space” for users called Horizon Facebook said Wednesday it will launch a virtual social community... Read More
General Motors strike approaches third week
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Earlier this week, Bernie Sanders became the latest Democratic presidential candidate to visit striking UAW workers at a General Motors plant Representatives from General Motors... Read More
“Rather than the usual pictures of humanoid sex robots and sex dolls that many news outlets and magazines have already shown, we like to think... Read More
Credit: Institute of Physics Elon Musk promised—and Jeff Dahn delivered. With the publishing of a ground-breaking paper in the Journal of The Electrochemical Society (JES),... Read More
Credit: Alibaba Group Alibaba’s first AI chip is in the news. It’s a self developed chip, said Reuters, for cloud computing services. Reuters said in... Read More
Using math to blend musical notes seamlessly
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Trevor Henderson in the record library at WMBR, MIT’s student radio station. Credit: Melanie Gonick, MIT In music, “portamento” is a term that’s been used... Read More
MIT researchers have designed low-cost, photovoltaic-powered sensors on RFID tags that work in sunlight and dimmer indoor lighting, and can transmit data for years before... Read More
Credit: Ecole Polytechnique Federale de Lausanne EPFL scientists have developed a soft artificial skin that provides haptic feedback and—thanks to a sophisticated self-sensing mechanism—has the... Read More
Research at Missouri S&T shows that people are overconfident about their ability to spot phishing email scams. Credit: Missouri University of Science and Technology People... Read More
San Francisco-based startup DoorDash said it noticed unusual activity and discovered user data was accessed by an unauthorized third party in May On-demand restaurant meal... Read More
Researchers testing method to build temperature, heat-flux sensors for hypersonic vehicles
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UTA’s new arc-jet heated hypersonic wind tunnel. Credit: University of Texas at Arlington Harsh environmental conditions—such as surface temperatures reaching thousands of degrees Fahrenheit—make it... Read More
Apple is reportedly considering seeking to launch some of its film productions in theaters before offering them on the new streaming television service set to... Read More
Credit: CC0 Public Domain Fast 5G wireless networks have barely gotten out of the gate globally, but already about 2 million 5G smartphones have been... Read More
Credit: Shutterstock Traditional banks are haunted by financial technology—fintech—firms. Challengers such as mobile-first banks Chime in the US, Monzo in the UK and Germany’s N26... Read More
Credit: CC0 Public Domain German investigators said Friday they have shut down a data processing center installed in a former NATO bunker that hosted sites... Read More
Credit: CC0 Public Domain Ilan Samish dips a crisp in ketchup, takes a sip of soda and samples a spoonful of yogurt鈥攖he latter three sweetened... Read More