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Smartphone Breath Alcohol Testing Devices Vary Widely in Accuracy

Alcohol-impaired driving kills 29 people a day and costs $121 billion a year in the U.S. After years of progress in reducing alcohol-impaired driving fatalities, efforts...

Government OKs 13 Applications for 5G Trials; Chinese Vendors Kept Out

The Department of Telecommunications (DoT) has cleared the much-delayed 5G trials, allowing Bharti Airtel, Reliance Jio, and Vodafone Idea’s applications that seek to partner non-Chinese equipment vendors to work on...

IBM Announces First 2nm Chip, Offers Performance Boost

IBM launched the world’s first 2 nanometers (2nm) semiconductor today. The new semiconductors will help the tech industry better, more powerful processors that can...

DRDO Develops Artificial Intelligence Algorithm to Detect Covid-19 Presence from Chest X-Rays

In a development expected to help diagnose Covid-19 in suspected patients faster, the Defence Research and Development Organisation (DRDO) and Centre for Artificial Intelligence and Robotics...

28-YO Engineer Builds Solar-Powered COVID Facilities

Uttar Pradesh’s Shriti Pandey has constructed two COVID care centers on the outskirts of Patna and Jalandhar, Punjab using stubble. These buildings are inherently...

Algorithm for Shoe-Based Blind Assistance System

A shoe that tells you where to go: The Lower Austrian company Tec-Innovation has developed an intelligent shoe for detecting obstacles. The shoe, known...

Google Introduces Woolaroo, a Tool for Learning Indigenous Languages

With many indigenous languages worldwide becoming endangered due to a dwindling number of native speakers, Google has introduced the app Woolaroo which focuses on...

Significant Progress in Lithium-Air Battery Development

Research led by the University of Liverpool, in partnership with and Loughborough University, is making significant progress in the development of stable and practical...

An On-Skin Device to Measure Sweat—Rate, Loss and Temperature—in Real-Time

Monitoring sweat-related dynamics, such as sweat rate, cumulative sweat loss, and sweat temperature over time could help doctors to diagnose thermoregulatory disorders and other...

Microsoft Introduces New Tools for Hybrid Learning

In honor of National Teacher Appreciation Day in the United States, Microsoft has announced the release of several learning tools designed to support both...

Toward a Brain-Like AI with Hype dimensional Computing

The human brain has always been under study for inspiration of computing systems. Although there's a very long way to go until we can...

The World’s Data Explained: How Much We’re Producing and Where it’s all Stored

Ancient humans stored information in cave paintings, the oldest we know of is over 40,000 years old. As humans evolved, the emergence of languages...

Can an AI Algorithm Mitigate Racial Economic Inequality?

Machine learning algorithm can leverage vast amounts of consumer data, allowing automation of business decisions such as pricing, product offerings, and promotions. Airbnb, an...

Global Task Force on Pandemic Response Launched to Aid India, Other Covid-19 Hot-Spots

The Global Task Force on Pandemic Response, a newly-formed U.S.-based public-private partnership organized by the U.S. Chamber of Commerce and supported by Business Roundtable,...

2021 Sustainability Report: STMicroelectronics steps up its Sustainability Commitments and Programs

STMicroelectronics (NYSE: STM), a global semiconductor leader serving customers across the spectrum of electronics applications, releases today its 24th sustainability report detailing the 2020 performance. “Since...

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