Until now, creating the microchips that power all of our electronic gadgets has been a laborious, complex and time-consuming process costing billions of dollars. But if a Milpitas, Calif.-based startup succeeds, making them ...
Electronics & Semiconductors
Aug 12, 2009
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(AP) -- A cane equipped with the technology that retailers use to tag merchandise could help blind people avoid obstacles.
Hi Tech & Innovation
Aug 3, 2009
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Climbing into his Volvo, outfitted with a Matrics antenna and a Motorola reader he'd bought on eBay for $190, Chris Paget cruised the streets of San Francisco with this objective: To read the identity cards of strangers, ...
Hi Tech & Innovation
Jul 11, 2009
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Many people know that penguins are social birds that live and raise their chicks together in big colonies.
Plants & Animals
May 24, 2021
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On a raft floating off Hong Kong's rural eastern coastline former investment banker turned scientist Yan Wa-tat patiently scrapes barnacles off some 2,000 oysters—a tiresome but crucial part of his mission to bring back ...
Other
Jun 6, 2019
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Pressure to optimize is intense on the floors of motor vehicle manufacturers' factories: Variance is steadily increasing. Costs have to be contained. Fraunhofer researchers are now using RFID technology to introduce more ...
Engineering
Jan 3, 2018
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On the 25th anniversary of the universal barcode in 1999, the barcode community gathered around Sanjay Sarma and his colleagues and said, "Let's do this."
Security
May 31, 2017
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Texas A&M AgriLife Research scientists are developing an early warning system for pen riders or animal care providers to more efficiently identify and treat cattle for bovine respiratory disease.
Other
May 1, 2017
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It doesn't pay to be smart, at least for bumblebees, according to a new U of G study.
Plants & Animals
Apr 4, 2017
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A joint project between conservationists and electronics experts at the University of Kent has developed miniature radio devices in tamper-proof casings to protect rare species from poachers.
Ecology
Jan 30, 2017
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