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  • Wireless signals from ceiling lighting for connected manufacturing

    Wireless signals from ceiling lighting for connected manufacturing

    WLAN and Bluetooth have limited bandwidth, making conventional wireless communication problematic in the production environment. Nevertheless, numerous components such as sensors and robots need to be wirelessly connected. To overcome this challenge, a team of researchers at Fraunhofer IOSB-INA in Lemgo is working on solutions with help from the Ostwestfalen-Lippe (OWL) University of Applied Sciences and Arts. Soon, it is hoped that machines in factory buildings will communicate with one another using light pulses. This technology is not new, but now it needs to be adapted for use in industry.

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  • AI and machine learning help scientists understand human face recognition

    AI and machine learning help scientists understand human face recognition

    Scientists from Salk Institute (U.S.), Skoltech (Russia), and the Riken Center for Brain Science (Japan) investigated a theoretical model of how populations of neurons in the visual cortex of the brain may recognize and process faces and their expressions, and how they are organized. The research was recently published in Neural Computation and highlighted on its cover.

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  • Father, son bond over engineering a record-smashing roadster

    Father, son bond over engineering a record-smashing roadster

    Sandia National Laboratories manager Joel Wirth, a mechanical engineer by training, studied a problem with his car. The weight was too far back, making the car fishtail whenever he drove it faster than 200 mph.

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  • A model to design logic gates inspired by a single-cell organism

    A model to design logic gates inspired by a single-cell organism

    Natural phenomena and biological mechanisms can be great sources of inspiration for scientists developing mathematical approaches, computer systems and robots. Over the past few decades, research has repeatedly proved the value of replicating behaviors observed in nature through the introduction of many fascinating bio-inspired computational techniques and systems.

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  • Bifacial solar advances with the times—and the sun

    Bifacial solar advances with the times—and the sun

    Traditional solar modules convert light to electricity using photovoltaic (PV) cells on the top side of the panels. Now, National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL) researchers are shining a light on what lies beneath.

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  • Home genealogy kit sales plummet over data privacy concerns

    Home genealogy kit sales plummet over data privacy concerns

    Surprising news recently emerged from the personal genetics business. The two leading direct-to-consumer companies in North America, 23andMe and Ancestry.com, announced within a week of each other that they were laying off a significant proportion of their workforce as a result of a steep drop in sales.

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  • Coronavirus: How Twitter could more effectively ease its impact

    Coronavirus: How Twitter could more effectively ease its impact

    In the wake of a disaster or crisis, people turn to trusted sources for information.

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  • Study sheds light on new IEEE standard categories, showing power system impact

    Study sheds light on new IEEE standard categories, showing power system impact

    In 2003, when the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) first drafted standards around distributed energy resources (DERs) connecting with the grid, solar power capacity was less than 1% of its current capacity. The standards document, IEEE 1547-2003, could not anticipate the technical challenges that solar and other DERs would present more than a decade later as a growing share of generation. These challenges were addressed in 2018 through a comprehensive revision of the standard.

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  • Airlines take no chances with our safety—neither should artificial intelligence

    Airlines take no chances with our safety—neither should artificial intelligence

    You’d thinking flying in a plane would be more dangerous than driving a car. In reality it’s much safer, partly because the aviation industry is heavily regulated.

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  • A current map for improving circuit design

    A current map for improving circuit design

    A practical method for mapping the flow of a current in devices with complex geometries that could be used to optimize circuit design has been developed at KAUST.

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