Top smart cities are global cities, new research reveals
An unprecedented global study has analysed and ranked leading cities in the worldwide "smart city" phenomenon.
An unprecedented global study has analysed and ranked leading cities in the worldwide "smart city" phenomenon.
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Valleytronics is an emerging field in which valleys—local minima in the energy band structure of solids—are used to encode, process, and store quantum information. Though graphene was thought to be unsuitable for valleytronics ...
Optics & Photonics
Sep 8, 2021
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Researchers at the University of Birmingham have identified a handful of key elements that define 'smart cities'– cities like Singapore and Copenhagen, which are both at the top of their game in using technology to enable ...
Energy & Green Tech
Feb 11, 2016
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Artificial intelligence is helping improve safety along a stretch of Las Vegas' busiest highway.
Hi Tech & Innovation
Nov 22, 2018
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In Spain's historic port of Santander, parking is no longer a headache, rubbish bins never overflow and grass is watered only when needed since this northern resort town became a testing ground for "smart cities" around the ...
Hi Tech & Innovation
Apr 6, 2016
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QUT Professor Ken Ostrikov from the School of Chemistry and Physics and QUT Centre for Materials Science said the new material could be used to develop new transistor devices for electronics and photodetectors for such applications ...
Condensed Matter
Nov 26, 2020
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Disinformation about deadly wildfires in the United States and Canada has run rampant across social media, with posts falsely blaming coordinated arson, lasers—and plans to develop "smart cities."
Environment
Sep 9, 2023
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There were gadgets and robots galore at Japan's premier electronics show this week. But one of the biggest attractions wasn't anything you could touch - an energy efficient city of the future.
Energy & Green Tech
Oct 7, 2010
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From pollution levels and the number of traffic accidents to safer public spaces and more efficient heating in buildings—to what extent can the smartness of a city be quantified? And is it possible to measure the quality ...
Energy & Green Tech
Apr 12, 2016
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In a new field trial, researchers show that a real-time coherent transceiver prototype can be used for continuous sensing over a 524-km live network aerial fiber wound around high-voltage power cables suspended from outdoor ...
Optics & Photonics
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