Using a watershed algorithm, the APD Colony Counter App developed by A*STAR researchers can cheaply count the bacterial colonies on a culture plate on-the-go. Credit: A*STAR Bioinformatics Institute An Android
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Four reforms to broach rival broadband
Take action, get results First, we need a contribution of attention performance. Facts have to be constructed independently: self-scoring ministers – or regulators – regulating rhetorically spun statistics disguise a
How Hazel Technologies keeps fresh fruit and vegetables from spoiling
Chicago-based Hazel Technologies is on a mission to reduce food waste. The company has developed packaging inserts that, through the magic of basic chemistry, can ward off fungus and mold
Artificial data give the same results as real data—without compromising privacy
Credit: Massachusetts Institute of Technology Although data scientists can gain great insights from large data sets—and can ultimately use these insights to tackle major challenges—accomplishing this is much easier said
New deep learning techniques analyze athletes’ decision-making
Sports analytics is routinely used to assign values to such things as shots taken or to compare player performance, but a new automated method based on deep learning techniques –
Daimler leads ChargePoint’s new $82M round for EV charging network growth
Campbell, California-based ChargePoint secured a new $82 million funding round, led by automaker Daimler. The new funding will help ChargePoint expand its network of electric vehicle charging stations in Europe,
HowGood raises $4.2 million to guide shoppers to products that match their values
Millennial consumers care about the sustainability of what they buy more than any other generation that came before them. This point is illustrated in studies from Pew Research, Clemson University
Researchers can predict terrorist behaviors with more than 90 percent accuracy
Government agencies cannot always use social media and telecommunication to uncover the intentions of terrorists as terrorists are now more careful in utilizing these technologies for planning and preparing for
Amazon begins large-scale rooftop solar installation across its warehouses
Amazon is looking to improve its renewable energy track record, with a new project that will see it install large solar energy gathering arrays on the rooftops of many of
A new game theory algorithm could one day help detect election tampering
America’s president isn’t the only one considering the possibility of rigged elections. Vanderbilt University’s Yevgeniy Vorobeychik, assistant professor of computer science and computer engineering, spent much of last year researching
High-throughput computing plays pivotal role in knee biomechanics research
High-throughput computing resources speed up the process of knee modeling simulations by sending jobs to many computers rather than just one. Credit: University of Wisconsin-Madison Unlike the assembly of a
New system estimates traffic from mobile device signals
From left to right: Pedro Castillo, Antonio Fernández Ares y María Isabel García. Credit: University of Granada A team of scientists from the universities of Granada and Jaén has designed
Who can find the fish that makes the best sound?
Today, manufacturing strong magnets is no problem from a technical perspective. It is, however, difficult to produce a permanent magnet with a magnetic field of a specific pre-determined shape. That
The internet of things: an overview
IoT: large use cases There are large use cases where IoT can be deployed, such as in manufacturing, vehicles and even destiny cases such as intelligent cities and energy. Manufacturing,
Strong polynomiality of the simplex method for totally unimodular linear programming problems
The United States shares 5,525 miles of land border with Canada and 1,989 miles with Mexico. Monitoring these borders, which is the responsibility of U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP),