AI sensors could help self-driving cars navigate in the snow
Nobody likes driving in a blizzard, including autonomous vehicles.
To make self-driving cars safer on snowy roads, engineers look at the problem from the car's...
Scientists develop first hacker-resistant cloud software system
Whenever you buy something on Amazon, your customer data is automatically updated and stored on thousands of virtual machines in the cloud.
For businesses like...
Researchers harvest Wi-Fi signals to power small electronics
With the rise of the digital age, the amount of Wi-Fi sources to transmit information wirelessly between devices has grown exponentially.
This results in the...
DNA may have the future of digital memory storage, shows study
The color of a person's eyes, the thickness of a potato's skin, the shape of a flower: What do these seemingly disparate elements have...
New interface turns handwriting brain signals into text for the first time
For the first time scientists have used an implanted sensor to record brain signals associated with handwriting and used those signals to create text...
New MIT system could automatically clean “dirty data”
MIT researchers have created a new system that automatically cleans “dirty data” — the typos, duplicates, missing values, misspellings, and inconsistencies dreaded by data...
New study could soon help Twitter run faster
Research from Carnegie Mellon University may soon help Twitter run faster and more efficiently.
Juncheng Yang, a Ph.D. candidate in computer science, and Rashmi Vinayak,...
Scientists find new way to make security device harder to crack
As more private data is stored and shared digitally, researchers are exploring new ways to protect data against attacks from bad actors.
Current silicon technology...
Scientists find novel way to switch antiferromagnetism on and off
The findings could lead to faster, more secure memory storage, in the form of antiferromagnetic bits.
When you save an image to your smartphone, those...
Researchers develop pasta that morphs into shape when cooked
People love pasta for its shapes—from tubes of penne and rigatoni to spirals of fusilli and rotini.
But what makes farfalle different from conchiglie also...