Light and Sound Together Might Be Just-Right Wireless Solution
RF and laser technologies cancel out each other’s shortcomings.
Gregory Goth
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That’s Traffic; Up Next, Weather
Smartphone apps emerge to support better weather forecasting.
Agriculture Is Becoming a ‘model Citizen’
New tools not only make farmers' calculations more accurate and their lives less labor-intensive, but also portend of better dissemination of data about agriculture’s impact literally downstream.
Microrobots Are the “bee’s Knees” For Harvard Professor
At some point in the future, RoboBees may be able to perform the task of pollination.
Heartbleed Bug Provokes Open Source Soul-Searching
Vulnerability underscored the issue of how projects like OpenSSL should be supported.
The Automotive Internet ‘road Map’ Is Becoming Easier to Read
Announcements herald greater focus on vehicle-based communication.
Crowdsourcing Platforms Monitor Disease, Dissent, and Disasters
Crowdsourcing platforms developed to aid epidemiological investigations have been repurposed to catalog political strife in Syria.
Three breakthrough experiments involving photons have extended coherence times and indicated scalable production.
With the AEGIS system, the Mars Exploration Rovers can autonomously select, capture, and analyze images using onboard logic.
Thanks to the University of New South Wales and IBM Research, scientists are moving closer to the junction of quantum and digital computing.
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