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Written by: Pramitha Krishnamurthyprakash, Group Manager and Lead Consultant, Computer Science and AI, CPA Global. The lifecycles of breakthrough technologies such as Augmented Reality (AR) are heavily reliant on mainstream take up. Many…

For those who cannot travel freely, virtual reality’s promise of transporting us to a different world in a heartbeat is a lifeline, rather than a novelty. Sonya Kim, a physician in the San Francisco Bay area, has been taking…

There are three times more cooking fires - the most common cause of house fires - on Thanksgiving than on any other day of the year. And the thousands of "turkey-fryer explosion" videos on YouTube are a testament to why frozen turkeys and…

A new process for creating flexible supercapacitors that can store more energy and be recharged more than 30,000 times without degrading has been developed by a team of UCF scientists. The novel method from the University of Central…

Across the United States, hundreds of local police departments have collectively spent about $4.75m on software tools that can monitor the locations of activists at protests or social media hashtags used by suspects, according to new…

Ever since the first stars appeared about one hundered million years after the big bang, stars and star formation processes have lit up the cosmos. When the universe was about three billion years old, star formation activity peaked at rates…

A giant valley discovered on the planet Mercury makes the Grand Canyon look tiny by comparison. Located by scientists at the University of Maryland, the Smithsonian Institution, the German Institute of Planetary Research and Moscow State…

Biometrics are a convenient form of security—though it's perhaps not as safe as you'd think. In their rush to do away with problematic passwords, Apple, Microsoft and other tech companies are nudging consumers to use their own…

Author: Daisy Stapley-Bunten According to the National Institutes of Health, more than 40 million Americans suffer from chronic, long-term sleep disorders, and an additional 20 million report sleeping problems occasionally. Sleep…

Next gen solar cells made of super-thin films of semiconducting material hold promise because they're relatively inexpensive and flexible enough to be applied just about anywhere. Researchers are working to dramatically increase the…