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Computer scientists discover serious iPad and iPhone OS weaknesses

Editorial Team Aug 29, 2016

In the mobile security world, there's been much focus on the potential harm that can result from third-party applications, and the revelation that developers can bypass application vetting and code-level protections. However, dangers are…

Automotive

Car tires inspired by grasshopper feet could make driving safer

Editorial Team Aug 29, 2016

While bio-inspired robots are studied in excess these days, researchers are now looking into other bio-inspired technology, such as car tires. A team of researchers from Lehigh University has teamed up with Michelin Corporation and the…

Sensors

These new high-tech eyeglasses will also track your health

Editorial Team Aug 29, 2016

Soon your eyeglasses will do a lot more than just help you see. The University of Southern California (USC) Center for Body Computing (CBC) has teamed up with eye-wear company VSP Global to launch a brand new high-tech embedded…

Communications

Sensor system can detect a senior citizen’s fall three weeks in advance

Editorial Team Aug 29, 2016

Everyone falls from time to time, but falls are very common among the elderly — those 65 and older — and can have more serious repercussions. Elderly falls can lead to broken bones, head injuries, hospitalizations or even death. In order…

3D Printing

These 3D printed objects immediately revert to original position after modification

Editorial Team Aug 29, 2016

With the help of some light, engineers from MIT and Singapore University of Technology and Design (SUTD) have figured out a way to 3D print structures that can recall and revert back to their original shapes. After being stretched,…

Automotive

Vehicle dynamics simulation software tests emissions

Editorial Team Aug 26, 2016

The software, developed by rFpro for DIL (Driver In the Loop) simulators, creates such a high level of realism (immersion) that drivers behave in a representative way, giving manufacturers confidence in a car’s emissions performance long…

Wireless

A system to transfer wireless data three times faster

Editorial Team Aug 26, 2016

With phone usage growing faster than wireless spectrum, we’re all now fighting over smaller and smaller bits of bandwidth. There are few things more frustrating than trying to use your phone on a crowded network. Spectrum crunch is such a…

A&D

NASA uses test dummies to understand landings

Editorial Team Aug 26, 2016

A mockup of Boeing’s CST-100 Starliner spacecraft awaits its encounter with a pad full of dirt, hoisted about 30ft. in the air. “Three, two, one” projects over the loud speaker just before the spacecraft is released and makes a loud thud…

Smartphones

Conversational chatbot to help you learn a new language

Editorial Team Aug 26, 2016

Mondly, a popular free language-learning app with over 10 million downloads worldwide, has released a new language-learning conversational chatbot to help users practice speaking and writing while learning a new language, the first of its…

Medical

The science of self-consciousness

Editorial Team Aug 26, 2016

Bodily self-consciousness allows us to be instinctively aware of where we are and how we move, and is an integral part of our everyday life. While this seems trivial, it requires a lot of computation and processing from our brain. But how…