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AI, Drones Survey Great Barrier Reef in Last Ditch Effort to Avoid Catastrophe

30 Απριλίου 2019 by paulkokos

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An Australian research team is using tech to monitor global climate change’s assault on the world's largest living organismThe stats are daunting. The Great Barrier Reef is 2,300 kilometers long, comprises 2,900 individual coral reefs, and covers an area greater than 344,000 square km, making it the world's largest living organism and…

With “Leapfrog” Technologies, Africa Aims to Skip the Present and Go Straight to the Future

30 Απριλίου 2019 by paulkokos

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IEEE is promoting engineering education and access to the latest technologies through its Africa initiative Photo: Thomas Imo/Photothek/Getty Images Cell for Sale: A Kenyan market sells mobile phones, which are ubiquitous in sub-Saharan Africa. By 2022, forecasters estimate that sub-Saharan Africa will have nearly 1 billion mobile phones—enough for the vast majority of…

In the Air With Zipline’s Medical Delivery Drones 

30 Απριλίου 2019 by paulkokos

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Commercial operations in Rwanda prove the company can deliver emergency blood packs in minutes, rather than hours  Gif: IEEE Spectrum Special Delivery: Zipline catapults its drones into the sky to deliver blood products to hospitals across Rwanda. The drones drop their cargo by parachute. Rwanda is known as the land…

Consumer Robotics Company Anki Abruptly Shuts Down

30 Απριλίου 2019 by paulkokos

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After last-minute funding fell through, Anki becomes the latest consumer robotics company to closeBarely an hour ago, Recode broke the news that Anki, the consumer robotics company behind both Vector, Cozmo, and Overdrive, will be terminating several hundred employees and shutting down on Wednesday after it failed to secure a new…

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Is There a Future for Laundry-Folding Robots?

30 Απριλίου 2019 by paulkokos

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The company behind the Laundroid robot folds itself, but that's not the end for laundry folding robots (yet)The promising thing about laundry-folding robots is that they target a job that everybody does frequently, and nobody really likes. But to be successful in robotics, especially in consumer robotics, you have to…

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Early Warning System Predicts Risk of Online Students Dropping Out

29 Απριλίου 2019 by paulkokos

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With the new system, every student is scored based on how likely they are to finish their coursesIt’s easy enough for students to sign up for online university courses—but getting them to finish is much harder. Dropout rates for online courses can be as high as 80 percent. Researchers have tried…

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In 1983, This Bell Labs Computer Was the First Machine to Become a Chess Master

26 Απριλίου 2019 by paulkokos

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Belle used a brute-force approach to best other computers and humans Photo: Peter Adams Check and Mate: Belle was a winning chess-playing computer developed at Bell Labs in the early 1970s. Chess is a complicated game. It’s a game of strategy between two opponents, but with no hidden information and…

Floating Cell Towers Are the Next Step for 5G

26 Απριλίου 2019 by paulkokos

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Terrestrial 5G networks will support high-altitude balloons and drones, and could someday merge with themAs the world races to deploy speedy 5G mobile networks on the ground, some companies remain focused on floating cell towers in the sky. During the final session of the sixth annual Brooklyn 5G Summit on Thursday, Silicon Valley and telecom leaders discussed whether…

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Terahertz Waves Could Push 5G to 6G

26 Απριλίου 2019 by paulkokos

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At the Brooklyn 5G summit, experts said terahertz waves could fix some of the problems that may arise with millimeter-wave networksIt may be the sixth year for the Brooklyn 5G Summit, but in the minds of several speakers, 2019 is also Year Zero for 6G. The annual summit, hosted by…

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Boingo and Mettis Aerospace Test Wi-Fi 6 for Airports and Factories

26 Απριλίου 2019 by paulkokos

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A single Wi-Fi 6 access point can deliver high-speed, low-latency service to hundreds of users at onceAn airport operator in California and a British aerospace manufacturer are among the first organizations to put Wi-Fi 6 networks to the test. Boingo Wireless has begun testing Wi-Fi 6 access points and compatible smartphones at…

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