Older people need digital skills training to learn to use digital technology more independently, but they also seek digital training opportunities because of the social benefits they offer, according to a recent study from ...
Education
Jun 7, 2021
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A new real-time, 3D motion tracking system developed at the University of Michigan combines transparent light detectors with advanced neural network methods to create a system that could one day replace LiDAR and cameras ...
Nanophysics
Apr 23, 2021
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The widespread proliferation of the internet and information and communication technologies (ICT) has drawn people into urban centers, according to new research.
Social Sciences
Apr 15, 2021
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A year on from when many governments began directing people to work at home wherever possible because of the pandemic, few anticipated that it would become so normalized, or that the shift to productivity would be so rapid ...
Social Sciences
Mar 24, 2021
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Without electronics and photonics, there would be no computers, smartphones, sensors, or information and communication technologies. In the coming years, the new field of phononics may further expand these options. That field ...
Nanomaterials
Mar 1, 2021
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The National Institute of Information and Communications Technology (NICT), Tohoku University, Toin University of Yokohama, and Japan Science and Technology Agency (JST) have succeeded in developing a scanless high-speed ...
Optics & Photonics
Jan 29, 2021
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Due to the coronavirus pandemic, the world is in an unexpected moment of global uncertainty and change. Countries, cities and communities worldwide are moving through rotating economic lockdowns and stay-at-home orders. At ...
Economics & Business
Jan 26, 2021
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China's new carrier rocket, the Long March-8, made its maiden flight on Tuesday, the country's space agency said, the first phase of a strategy to deploy launch vehicles that can be reused.
Space Exploration
Dec 22, 2020
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Can information and communication technologies help maintain close ties in families who are scattered around the world as a result of (forced) migration? Vienna-based social anthropologist Monika Palmberger explores the role ...
Social Sciences
Nov 23, 2020
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Silicon photonics researchers from the Optoelectronics Research Centre (ORC) have demonstrated the first all-silicon optical transmitter at 100Gbps and beyond without the use of digital signal processing.
Optics & Photonics
Nov 16, 2020
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