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Artificial Intelligence to the Rescue: Smart Robots are Coming to your Garden 0
- Design & Technology, Share Your Science
- March 1, 2019
If you love gardening, you know how demanding the work can be. To craft a garden takes time, sweat and skills. As the body becomes frailer, using power cutters, getting on your knees and backing up and collecting cuttings grows into an arduous task. Now, a new artificial intelligence project to improve your average robot
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30 Years Ago, the World’s First Cyberattack Set the Stage for Modern Cybersecurity Challenges 0
- Design & Technology
- November 6, 2018
Back in November 1988, Robert Tappan Morris, son of the famous cryptographer Robert Morris Sr., was a 20-something graduate student at Cornell who wanted to know how big the internet was – that is, how many devices were connected to it. So he wrote a program that would travel from computer to computer and ask
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Technology is Making Cities ‘Smart’, But it’s Also Costing the Environment 0
- Design & Technology, Motion
- July 30, 2018
The Australian government has allocated A$50 million for the Smarter Cities and Suburbs Program to encourage projects that “improve the livability, productivity and sustainability of cities and towns across Australia”. One project funded under the program is the installation of temperature, lighting and motion sensors in buildings and bus interchanges in Woden, ACT. This will
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So You Trust Your Hardware?0
- Design & Technology
- October 29, 2017
Smaller chips, sneakier attacks. How is the move towards small transistors exposing us to malicious attacks?
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6 Ways Machines Can Help Kids with Autism 0
- Design & Technology
- October 5, 2017
The story of an Autistic Child and the Robot who taught her to socialize.
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From Sensing Proximity to Understanding Crowd Behavior 0
- Design & Technology, Share Your Science
- March 28, 2017
How do users interact with products in a store? What is the best disposition of artwork in a museum? How can airports prevent queue formation at security checks? Predicting crowd behavior through proximity sensors is not that far ahead in the future.
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