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Consumer refers to technology specifically designed for consumer use, from computers and smart home technology, to personal gadgets such as wearables and smartphones.
Supercomputer from NASA shows Earth’s carbon dioxide
A NASA supercomputer project builds on the agency's satellite measurements of carbon dioxide and combines them with…
Optical fingerprint sensor offers scanning 1mm thick glass
The new sensor, called Synaptics FS9100, would solve many of the current issues that conventional scanners…
Smartphone earthquake detector recorded nearly 400 tremblors
The University of California, Berkeley's worldwide network of smartphone earthquake detectors has recorded nearly…
Train strikes? Commute by drone instead
Drones can do some incredible acrobatics. Being robots, they don’t care all that much about flying sideways or…
Soft robot picks ripest tomato with human touch
Most robots achieve grasping and tactile sensing through motorized means, which can be excessively bulky and rigid.…
Galileo: Europe’s own satnav goes live
Seventeen years and more than €10bn ($11bn) later, Europe's Galileo satnav system is set to go live on Thursday,…
Greater access to services lifts Kenyans out of poverty
Since 2008, MIT economist Tavneet Suri has studied the financial and social impacts of Kenyan mobile-money…
GL enhances IMS emulator with online and offline charging
GL Communications has announced its enhanced MAPS IMS Multi-Interface emulator with support for online and offline…
Designers can create vision systems with fewer cables
A semiconductor company focusing on high speed serial interfaces, THine Electronics, has announced an AEC-Q100…
Using memory to piece together the parts
Thinking recently about the tragic airplane crash over South America involving a Brazilian football team, these…