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A "smart armchair" will take care of you

This is due to the fact that by attentively tracking the body position of a person sitting in it, the armchair is able to independently fine-tune to it: to…

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New Software Assists Doctors in Heart Attack Risk Assessment

An international consortium of researchers, led by the University of Edinburgh, has developed a programme that enables doctors to swiftly assess the severity…

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World-Leading Technology To Be Demonstrated at Queen's University's £40M ECIT Institute

The Institute’s work in the areas of Emerging Security Technologies and Wireless Communications Systems will be presented to dozens of local and international…

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New Textile Print Centre Launches at University of Manchester

Cabourn, who recently took up the position of Visiting Professor of Textiles at The University of Manchester, cut the ribbon at the new Centre for Digital…

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Stay Safe in the Sun with HappySun’s UV Index Alerts

Thanks to an innovative service called HappySun, the UV Index can be delivered directly to mobile phones via SMS or can be accessed on the Internet. HappySun…

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UCF researchers' breakthrough may help industry create more powerful computer chips

A University of Central Florida research team has made a substantial inroad toward establishing extreme ultraviolet light (EUV) as a primary power source for…

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Speed is the name of the game for researchers

Academics in several scientific and engineering fields will use IBM’s latest powerful hardware to run a range of scientific and engineering programs.The…

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LOGIIC Enhances Cybersecurity for Oil and Gas Control Systems

For the past 12 months, Sandia National Laboratories has served as the lead national lab in Project LOGIIC (Linking the Oil and Gas Industry to Improve Cyber…

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Dissertation paves the way for tomorrow’s supercomputers

Many of today’s server computers contain several processors (the ‘brain’ of the computer) and support for so-called shared memory. Shared memory makes these…

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Finland acquires a new supercomputer for research

The new system enables new kinds of research and increases accuracy of current simulation models. At the same time CSC extends its super-cluster system as…

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Robotic Whiskers Enhance 3D Sensing Inspired by Rats

Two Northwestern University engineers have been studying the whisker system of rats to better understand how mechanical information from the whiskers gets…

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New Workflow Language Targets Climate Change Computing

“This new approach builds on research in the computer science community over the past 40 years. For much of that time, many claimed this line of work was of…

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Swiss Researchers Unite to Advance Distributed Computing Grids

This initiative aims to bring together the various academic and research institutions involved in distributed computing projects in Switzerland. This will…

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Broadband’s high altitude ‘revolution’ to gather pace at York

A University of York-led consortium, drawn from Europe and Japan, has spent three-years demonstrating the use of balloons, airships or unmanned solar-powered…

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Firmafrance exporters’ platform puts 48,000 products at your fingertips

This unique B2B internet portal in English simplifies contacts between French exporters and professionals worldwide who are seeking reliable suppliers and…

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Affordable Industrial-Strength Software Solutions for SMEs

Most small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) currently find it difficult and expensive to develop customised software. Custom development is costly and…

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