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WorldViz just released Vizard 7 of its Python-based VR development platform that provides Python 3.8 integration, VR device connectivity, and data collection. The new version provides access to a range of Python community libraries,…

Researchers at the University of Colorado Boulder developed a new, low-cost wearable device that transforms the human body into a biological battery. Published in the journal Science Advances, the device stretches to wear as a ring or…

Electronic components in many devices are based on micro-structured silicon carriers, which have almost reached their physical limits and smallest possible structure sizes. Two-dimensional materials such as graphene, an atomically thin…

The study, led by Dr. Ivan Rusyn, a professor in the Veterinary Integrative Biosciences (VIBS) Department at the Texas A&M College of Veterinary Medicine & Biomedical Sciences (CVMBS), published in Food and Chemical Toxicology.…

A central challenge of powerful quantum computing is the ability to build universal quantum computers from fragile quantum components. Quantum error correction (QEC) is used in quantum computing to protect quantum information from errors…

Systems that detect deepfakes, videos that manipulate real-life footage via artificial intelligence, can now be deceived. Computer scientists demonstrated how it can happen at the WACV 2021 conference online Jan. 5 to 9, 2021. Detectors…

Research shows growing confidence among consumers and business leaders in robots to handle finance tasks rather than people. According to a new study by Oracle and personal finance expert Farnoosh Torabi the events of 2020 led people to…

Purdue University just created technology that can replace Morse code with colored "digital characters" modernizing optical storage. Morse code goes back to the 1830s and it is antiquated given the amount of information needed to gather,…

How amazing is this? Researchers at Germany’s Chemnitz University of Technology developed a way to print long strips of paper loudspeakers that can roll up into a 360-degree surround sound experience more immersive than found in movie…

We would all like to think we know when someone is lying to us—but do we? Faster speech rate, greater intensity in the middle of the word, and falling pitch at the end of the word: that is the prosody (think melody) to use if you want to…