Sat 07 November 2020: The right indoor lighting can help set the mood, from a soft romantic glow to bright, stimulating colours. But some materials used for lighting, such as plastics, are not eco-friendly. Now, researchers reporting in ACS Nano have developed a bio-based, luminescent, water-resistant wood film that could someday be used as cover panels for […]
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Thu 05 November 2020: The fact that smartphones know an awful lot about us is nothing new. And many people have long since accepted that their devices — or more precisely the providers behind the apps that they use — have probably learned more about them than the users know. Soon, a new app could be launched that will allow users to […]
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Thu 05 November 2020: Turkey has fined global companies, including Facebook, Twitter and YouTube, $1.18 million each, for failing to appoint a representative to the country as required by a new law, The fines are the first step on an escalating scale of penalties that can end in a block on 90 percent of the […]
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Wed 04 November 2020: Smartwatches offer people a private method for getting notifications about their surroundings — such as a phone call, health alerts or an upcoming package delivery. Now University of Washington researchers have developed SoundWatch, a smartwatch app for the deaf, and hard-of-hearing people who want to be aware of nearby sounds. When the […]
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Mon 02 November 2020: US space agency NASA has captured a rare asteroid the size of Massachusetts orbiting between Mars and Jupiter – valued at $10,000 quadrillion. A metallic rarity,16 Psyche was discovered back in 1852 with NASA’s Hubble Telescope finally offering citizens of Earth a closer glimpse. The Planetary Science Journal published a new […]
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Mon 02 November 2020: Virtual reality software which allows researchers to ‘walk’ inside and analyse individual cells could be used to understand fundamental problems in biology and develop new treatments for disease. The software, called vLUME, was created by scientists at the University of Cambridge and 3D image analysis software company Lume VR Ltd. It allows […]
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Sat 31 October 2020: A lawnmower robot’s electronic cries for help foiled a thief’s plan to make off with the grass-cutting automaton. German police said Friday that a homeowner in the western town of Lippstadt was surprised on Tuesday evening with a smartphone message from the robot that it had flipped upside down. When he […]
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Fri 30 October 2020: TOKYO: In efforts to make its rapidly ageing population safer in the streets, Japan is planning to upgrade thousands of pedestrian crossing lights so that they can communicate with smartphones. The “smart” crossing light can let a visually impaired pedestrian know whether it has turned red, yellow or green via their […]
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Thu 29 October 2020: Apple has accelerated work to develop its own search engine that would allow the iPhone maker to offer an alternative to Google, a Financial Times report said Wednesday. The report, citing unnamed sources, said signs of the search engine technology have begun to appeal in its iOS 14 operating system. The […]
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Wed 28 October 2020: Microsoft Corp beat Wall Street estimates for quarterly revenue on Tuesday, powered by growth in its flagship cloud computing business as the software giant continued to benefit from a global shift to remote work and e-learning. The shift to work from home has accelerated adoption of cloud-based computing, benefitting companies such […]
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