Households in areas hit hardest by fuel poverty are not benefiting most from the government's flagship energy support scheme, a damning report has found.
Economics & Business
Dec 13, 2023
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The Internet of Things (IoT) can be described as a loose network of physical devices that might be embedded with sensors, software, and connectivity. While a holistic view would see the IoT as being all the devices in the ...
Biotechnology
Mar 31, 2023
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Food security is no laughing matter at the best of times, but I gasped when I first read the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs' (Defra) annual food civil contingencies infrastructure report in 2018. It is ...
Economics & Business
Mar 23, 2020
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The simplest home medical tests might look like a deck of various silicon chips coated in special film, one that could detect drugs in the blood, another for proteins in the urine indicating infection, another for bacteria ...
Analytical Chemistry
Jun 11, 2019
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Smart homes have long been touted as the future of building. But now even existing homes can be turned smart—and it's easier than ever.
Internet
May 23, 2019
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Alexa's got a new gig: home safety.
Consumer & Gadgets
May 14, 2019
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While a mobile phone or PC is traditionally controlled by only one user, many players come together in a networked household, some of whom even want to control devices simultaneously. Researchers from the Horst Görtz Institute ...
Consumer & Gadgets
Oct 24, 2018
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The smart device market is exploding. Smart home kits for retrofitting "non-smart" houses have become cheaper.Earlier this year, Apple released the HomePod speaker, the company's response to dominant smart devices Google ...
Consumer & Gadgets
Jul 16, 2018
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Well-connected smart devices at home and in healthcare are currently vulnerable to hacking, warn two new reports.
Security
Mar 20, 2018
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Nest's new home security camera is supposed to be so smart that it can identify people it's been introduced to.
Consumer & Gadgets
Nov 7, 2017
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