Ford Motor Co. said Wednesday it was teaming up with researchers at two US universities to work on obstacles, technical and otherwise, to automated driving. "To deliver on our vision for the future of mobility, we need to work with many ...
Tags: Autonomous Cars, Cars, Transportation, Ford
Campbell Soup, an American soup maker, is geared up to install the latest version of Terra Technology’s Demand Sensing solution. The new Demand Sensing provides an automated way for manufacturers to extract value from huge data, by ...
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Professor Deborah Gordon recently sent hundreds of ants to the orbiting International Space Station. By studying how the ants adjust their behavior to cope with near-zero gravity conditions, scientists could improve the algorithms ...
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True Fit announced that it will partner with Hudson’s Bay and Lord & Taylor to offer True Fit’s patented fit personalization technology to consumers at TheBay.com and LordandTaylor.com. True Fit is a big data technology company ...
The habit of Googling for an online diagnosis before visiting a GP can provide early warning of an infectious disease epidemic. In a new study published in Lancet Infectious Diseases, internet-based surveillance has been found to detect ...
Scientists and engineers in Europe are embarking on a quest to see if they can change the way young people at risk for becoming obese eat. Key to this will be developing unobtrusive technology that monitors how quickly or slowly a person is ...
Tags: young people health, obese eat, eating disorders, healthier pace
Asicminer, a Hong Kong–based bitcoin mining operation, has taken an unorthodox step to gain an advantage over other computing systems running the algorithms that generate the virtual currency. To save money on energy, Asicminer puts ...
Tags: Cloud Service, Electrical, Electronics
This is the CES of the wearable gadget. And, while there are all sorts of technologies you can wear-after all, earbuds are wearable-the big explosion is in fitness trackers. The first wave of these small gadgets, worn on a wrist, clipped on ...
Tags: CES 2014 Trends, CES 2014, Fitness Trackers, Smart Watches
Moore's new law is that big data will lead to big science. The Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation plans to give US$1.5 million grants (in $200 000 to $300 000 yearly installments) to 15 worthy interdisciplinary scientists who can develop and ...
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Lithium-ion batteries, such as those used in electric vehicles, are in high demand, with a global market value expected to reach $33.1 billion in 2019. But their high price and short life need to be addressed before they can be used in more ...
Tags: lithium-ion battery, Venkat Subramanian, battery developers
Researchers from the Polytechnic University of Catalonia (UPC) have carried out a biomechanical study of the footwear made by Camper. A group of 54 volunteers took part in the project, trying on six models of men's shoes and six models of ...
Moore's new law is that big data will lead to big science. The Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation plans to give US$1.5 million grants (in $200 000 to $300 000 yearly installments) to 15 worthy interdisciplinary scientists who can develop and ...
Tags: Electrical, Electronics, Big Data, Computer Products
Agilent Technologies Inc of Santa Clara, CA, USA has announced the latest release of its GoldenGate RFIC simulation, verification and analysis software. GoldenGate 2013.10 provides RFIC designers with easy-to-use EVM-, BER- and ACPR-type ...
Global medtech giant Becton, Dickinson and Co. is boosting its point-of-care testing offerings through its $40 million acquisition of Alverix Inc., a privately-held diagnostic instrument company. Known for its optoelectronics expertise, ...
Tags: BD, Testing Offerings, Alverix Acquisition
Today the Baryon Oscillation Spectroscopic Survey (BOSS) Collaboration announced that BOSS has measured the scale of the universe to an accuracy of one percent. This and future measures at this precision are the key to determining the ...
Tags: Baryon Oscillation Spectroscopic Survey, scale of the universe