Ford Motor Company announced today the C-MAX Solar Energi Concept, a first-of-its-kind sun-powered vehicle with the potential to deliver the best of what a plug-in hybrid offers – without depending on the electric grid for fuel. ...
EyeNut, the ingenious new wireless monitoring and control system for indoor lighting, from world leader in the design, development and manufacture of control products for the lighting industry Harvard Engineering, has been named as the ...
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We were already aware of the existence of illicit marketplaces teeming with tools for cybercriminals looking to subvert the security of online networks. But one of the latest revelations from the cache of documents stolen by NSA ...
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Astronomers using the National Science Foundation's Green Bank Telescope (GBT) have discovered a unique stellar system of two white dwarf stars and a superdense neutron star, all packed within a space smaller than Earth's orbit around the ...
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Will 2014 be remembered as the year wearable computing took off? Upstart entrepreneurs and major manufacturers such as Samsung, Qualcomm and Sony certainly hope so. Gadgets that you snap, buckle or fasten to your body are already ...
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With the invention of the most basic machine in the form of the primitive wheel, man's wish to make life easier has seen a lot of changes in the world over the years. Nowadays advanced technology of the kind that was not imaginable a few ...
From drones and smart cars to remote-controlled door locks and eyewear, the 2014 Consumer Electronics Show promises to showcase the "Internet of Things," along with gadgets like smartphones and tablets. The technology extravaganza that ...
Twitter's video service Vine announced Friday it was expanding its presence on the Web, giving users the option of watching full-screen clips on their personal computers. The new service allows members to watch sequences of videos and use ...
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Chic-Finder, an online fashion social search engine, has launched its similar named mobile application targeted towards fashion-conscious iOS users. Wang Gang, founder of Chic-Finder, created the fashion start-up to accommodate women ...
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The U.S. National Security Agency was developing a software implant in 2008 for Apple iPhones that allowed the agency to take almost total control of the device, including retrieving text messages and voicemail and remotely turning on its ...
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Barclays is set to be the first bank in the UK to pilot technology that will allows businesses and consumers to deposit cheques via their smartphones, reducing the time it takes for cash to clear. Some £840 billion of cheques were ...
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Ford will display its first solar-powered vehicle at the Consumer Electronics Show (CES) in Las Vegas, the company?announced on Thursday. The Ford CMAX Solar Energi Concept car will have 1.5 square metres of solar photovoltaic cells on ...
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A government and industry team led by engineers from the US Air Force Research Laboratory’s Materials and Manufacturing Directorate (AFRL/RX) has completed a program to assess, improve, refine and validate a domestic source of supply ...
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Lathe machine has been widely used in the industries since ages. It is a machine used to cut and shape the metals and wood at high speed. The very basic model of this machine was primarily designed to cut cylindrical metal stocks. Instead ...
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Virtual reality has been hyped as the next big thing for decades—and yet,it never seems to deliver.Despite the potential,particularly in the world of gaming,numerous attempts have left players dizzy with disappointment,and just plain ...
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