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Photovoltaic-powered sensors for the “internet of things”

“RFID-based devices work in indoor and outdoor lighting conditions, and communicate at greater distances. By 2025, experts estimate the number of “internet of things” devices — including sensors that gather real-time data about infrastructure and the environment — could rise to …

Quantum material goes where none have gone before

“Alloy behaves strangely while traversing potential ‘spin liquid’ state Rice University physicist Qimiao Si began mapping quantum criticality more than a decade ago, and he’s finally found a traveler that can traverse the final frontier. The traveler is an …

Raspberry Pi OS Raspbian Improves Raspberry Pi 4 Support, Adds Many Improvements

“Raspberry Pi Foundation released a new version of the official Raspberry Pi operating system, Raspbian, to improve support for the latest Raspberry Pi 4 computer, as well as to add many other enhancements and updated components. Raspbian 2019-09-26 images are …

Researchers synthesize ‘impossible’ superconductor

“Researchers from the U.S., Russia, and China have bent the rules of classical chemistry and synthesized a “forbidden” compound of cerium and hydrogen — СеН₉ — which exhibits superconductivity at a relatively low pressure of 1 million atmospheres. The paper came …

Speeding up the machine learning process

“A new approach for training algorithms makes the machine learning process faster and more accurate. At a time when big data reigns supreme, training machine learning algorithms to perform certain tasks is often costly and time-consuming. At KAUST’s Visual …

This flat structure morphs into shape of a human face when temperature changes

“New structural design could lead to self-deploying tents or adaptive robotic fins. Researchers at MIT and elsewhere have designed 3-D printed mesh-like structures that morph from flat layers into predetermined shapes, in response to changes in ambient temperature. The new …

This is how a “fuzzy” universe may have looked

“Scientists simulate early galaxy formation in a universe of dark matter that is ultralight, or “fuzzy,” rather than cold or warm. Dark matter was likely the starting ingredient for brewing up the very first galaxies in the universe. Shortly after …

Using High Energy Density Material in Electrode Design Enhances Lithium Sulfur Batteries

“Lithium ion batteries aren’t keeping up with energy demands from higher power electronic devices, electric vehicles and smart electric grids. To develop higher capacity batteries, researchers have looked to lithium sulfur batteries because of sulfur’s high theoretical capacity …

Arm Mbed OS 5.14 released

“In the three years since we released Mbed OS 5, we’ve focused our engineering efforts on adding the feature set an IoT operating system requires. We’ve invested in connectivity, security, device management and storage. That investment has paid …

BeagleBoard.org® Launches BeagleBone® AI, Offering a Fast Track to Getting Started with Artificial Intelligence at the Edge

“The BeagleBoard.org® Foundation today announces general availability of the newest, fastest, most powerful BeagleBoard.org® BeagleBone® low cost development board yet, and it’s driving a whole new AI revolution. Built on our proven open source Linux approach, BeagleBone …