CIA Senior Collection Analyst David Clopper has, since 2008, created three complex board games designed to test employees. They used to be a secret, but a recent public showing, along with a Freedom of Information request, has resulted in the necessary rules and paperwork being released so anyone can...
Imagine this: Clothing that charges your smart watch as you walk, buildings that vibrate in the wind and power your lights, a road that extracts energy from the friction created by moving cars, and flexible structures that change shape in ocean waves to generate clean electricity for communities around...
Microsoft announced today that it will offer a new configuration of Surface Hub 2S that comes with Windows 10 Pro or Enterprise.
“Today’s environment requires different kinds of flexibility to make people and teams as productive as possible,” Microsoft’s...
3-D printing development assists in soft robots creation.
In order to print in three dimensions, a specialized robot, called a 3-D printer, must first slice the desired object into 2-D slices. This plan is then used as the machine’s blueprint as it begins to lay down layers upon layers of...
The great inventor Thomas Edison once said, "So long as the sun shines, man will be able to develop power in abundance." His wasn't the first great mind to marvel at the notion of harnessing the power of the sun; for...
RALEIGH – Persistence AI, a startup in Raleigh focusing on artificial intelligence, says it will hire hundreds of people to support the launch of a new product which it is accelerating for deployment to help companies meet a variety of needs stemming...
Google has launched the iOS version of its new AI-powered Google News app, based on Google Play Newsstand, which it replaces. Available for both the iPhone and iPad (and Android), it’s dramatically better than the old Google News app experience.
Its ambition is to offer personalized content to users from...
In a groundbreaking hearing, a robot “gave evidence” to a House of Lords committee on Tuesday – where it read typos from its pre-written script, struggled to hear questions, and needed to be rebooted halfway through the session.
Researchers at CRANN and Trinity’s School of Physics have discovered that a new material can act as a super-fast magnetic switch.
When struck by successive ultra-short laser pulses it exhibits “toggle switching” that could increase the capacity of the...
The first human corneas have been 3D printed by scientists at Newcastle University, UK.
It means the technique could be used in the future to ensure an unlimited supply of corneas.
As the outermost layer of the human eye, the cornea has an important role in focusing vision.
Yet there is a...
