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Woman Rescued After Robot Vacuum Attacks Her Hair

A robotic vacuum cleaner is equipped with sensors that accurately interpret its surroundings and avoid obstacles like cables, people, and stairs while cleaning surfaces. Apart from dirt, robot vacuums are also supposed to detect and suck up hair…

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Apple Gears Up to Challenge Rivals With Its Electric Car

After revolutionizing the mobile phone market with iPhones, Apple Inc. is aiming for a much bigger target – automobiles. Last year, Apple began its foray into automobiles when it unveiled CarPlay. CarPlay linked cars with…

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Where Are Small, Cheap Micro-Controllers Taking Us?

The computer I started programming in 1970 was an 8K Datapoint 2200. It wasn’t literally the first computer I programmed (that was an HP 2000 series), but it was the first one I had total…

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Butterfly Wing Like Thermosensors Detect Explosives

IndustryTap reported recently on “New Sensors Help Detect, Flush Out Criminals” in which sewers in major cities around the world are being fitted with chemical networks to detect dangerous chemicals that are a signature of…

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Gold Nanotubes Can Image and Destroy Cancer Cells Without Any Side Effects

A team of Scientists from the University of Leeds have discovered that gold nanotubes have the ability to fight cancer through high-resolution imaging. The tubes can also act as the agents for destroying cancer cells…

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Forget Dogs… The Marines Are Testing GuardBot, a Robot Guard Ball!

The Marine Corps is experimenting with a robot guard ball called GuardBot, essentially a big tire body with a dome on each side of its spherical core. GuardBot is being tested for its viability as…

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Legacy Migration – Detecting Outdated Practices

Users and project managers usually instruct a team migrating an old software product to ‘keep the functionality as close to the original as possible’. The implication of this is ‘translate line by line’. As pointed…

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This Redundant Fishing Trawler is Now a Wave Power Plant

All ships are built to withstand stormy seas but eventually end up in a junkyard. But a redundant fishing trawler has been given a fresh lease on life in Norway where it is being used…

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AT&T Launching ‘GigaPower’ in Kansas City to Compete With Google Fiber

AT&T has announced it will launch its own super-fast Internet service, “GigaPower”, in Kansas City to rival Google’s Fiber program. Google Fiber once promised internet speeds 75-100X faster than cable or DSL, but only time will…

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Exponential Growth & Disruptive Change

Business people like to think in terms of exponential increase; 3% growth per year, for example, represents a doubling in 24 years. Using Piketty’s example regarding wealth concentration, 5% per year doubles one’s asset values…

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Engineering

Woman Rescued After Robot Vacuum Attacks Her Hair

Apple Gears Up to Challenge Rivals With Its Electric Car

Where Are Small, Cheap Micro-Controllers Taking Us?

Butterfly Wing Like Thermosensors Detect Explosives

Gold Nanotubes Can Image and Destroy Cancer Cells Without Any Side Effects

Forget Dogs… The Marines Are Testing GuardBot, a Robot Guard Ball!

Legacy Migration – Detecting Outdated Practices

This Redundant Fishing Trawler is Now a Wave Power Plant

AT&T Launching ‘GigaPower’ in Kansas City to Compete With Google Fiber

Exponential Growth & Disruptive Change

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