We’re using VR to help find the next generation of basketball stars

Golden State Warriors point guard Steph Curry is one of the world’s leading basketball players and unquestionably the greatest shooter of all time. The video below may look like it’s on a loop, but it’s actually Curry sinking 105 three point shots in a row – that’s five minutes of the same precise and highly-skilled […]

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Small but mighty: Insect-inspired microphones

The displacement of the wax moth Acroia grisella membrane, which is one of the key sources of inspiration for designing miniature, bio-inspired microphones. Credit: Andrew Reid What can an insect hear? Surprisingly, quite a lot. Though small and simple, their hearing systems are highly efficient. For example, with a membrane only 2 millimeters across, the […]

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DigiCert announces partnership with Oracle to make DigiCert ONE available on Oracle Cloud Infrastructure

DigiCert, the global provider of digital trust and a member of Oracle PartnerNetwork (OPN), has entered into a partnership to provide DigiCert ONE, the platform for digital trust, on Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI).  Customers will benefit from DigiCert ONE’s fast time to value combined with OCI’s high-performance and security-first architecture for single and multi-cloud deployments. […]

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EV companies battle to best each other in smart software

[SHUTTERSTOCK]   With the electric vehicle (EV) market already crowded and cutthroat, the next battleground is how smart companies can make their software.    Tesla hopes to make its car a human-like robot that can work to pay off its own price and global automakers are upping investment in software development to make so-called software-defined […]

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China orders recall of 1.1M Teslas to fix accelerator pedal problem that raises crash risk

A Tesla electric vehicle emblem is affixed to a passenger vehicle Sunday, Feb. 21, 2021, in Boston. Chinese safety regulators have ordered Tesla to recall 1.1 million vehicles because drivers might step on the accelerator for too long, increasing the risk of a crash. The State Administration for Market Regulation says in a notice Friday, […]

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Fire hydrant hydrophones find water leaks

An overview of the methodology utilized for leak identification consisting of collecting acoustic data, extracting relevant features, and employing advanced machine learning and probabilistic models for leak detection and localization. Credit: Pranav Agrawal Access to clean drinking water is essential for healthy communities, but delivering that water is growing increasingly difficult for many utilities. Corroding […]

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Bolivian EV startup hopes tiny car will make it big in lithium-rich country

Dr. Carlos Ortuno drives a Bolivian-made, Quantum electric car to a house call, in La Paz, Bolivia, Wednesday, May 3, 2023. Launched in 2019, Quantum Motors has only sold 350 electric cars in Bolivia. But their founders recently received a boost from the German city of Bonn, which invested 50,000 euros to acquire six units […]

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Robotic proxy brings remote users to life in real time

Two collaborators are reviewing a physical artifact remotely by using the ReMotion system while sharing information on a digital whiteboard. We show both sites (Left and Center). At each site, the system includes (Center): a Kinect Azure to capture body motions, a NeckFace system worn by the local user to capture head and facial expressions, […]

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