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3D Scanners Enhance Forensic Investigations at Crime Scenes

If the police commissioner in TV crime series finds a corpse, the forensic collects DNA traces, secures fingerprints, takes photos and casts shoe prints, tire…

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Optimizing the Internet for Energy Efficiency

Streaming films and music, scrolling through social media, and using cloud-based storage services are everyday activities now.

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New Algorithm Outperforms Mainframe in Weather Forecasting

The exponential growth in computer processing power seen over the past 60 years may soon come to a halt. Complex systems such as those used in weather…

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Are Software Updates Slowing You Down? Find Out Why

We've all shared the frustration — software updates that are intended to make our applications run faster inadvertently end up doing just the opposite. These…

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Smart 3-D Printing: Enhancing Manufacturing with Machine Learning

3-D printing is often touted as the future of manufacturing. It allows us to directly build objects from computer-generated designs, meaning industry can…

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Unlocking Ultra-Fast Data Transfer with Terahertz Lasers

What distinguishes terahertz quantum cascade lasers from other lasers is the fact that they emit light in the terahertz range of the electromagnetic spectrum….

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Project CoPDA: Enhancing Robot Knowledge for Better Interaction

It happens in every office on any given day: As soon as a worker takes a mug from a cupboard, it becomes his or hers for the rest of the shift. While her…

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New SORMAS Module Tackles Coronavirus Challenges

At the end of December 2019, the first cases of pneumonia caused by a novel coronavirus were reported from the Chinese city of Wuhan. Since then, infections…

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Progress in Molecular Data Storage: Key Findings Unveiled

In a study published in Nature Communications, the team stored a variety of image files — a Picasso drawing, an image of the Egyptian god Anubis and others –…

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New Meta-Hologram Innovates Communication Inspired by Movies

As seen in the movie, Black Panther, people from Wakanda Kingdom communicate to each other through the hologram and, this specific movie scene seems to become…

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Intelligent Robot System Enhances Drinking Water Control in Saxony

Inland waters are of outstanding importance in Germany and worldwide for drinking water supply, ecology, tourism and agriculture. In Saxony alone there are 23…

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Unlocking the Tactile Internet: Predictive Touch Innovations

A Tactile Internet is potentially the next phase of the Internet of Things, in which humans can touch and interact with remote or virtual objects while…

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Integrating Microchips for Advanced Electronic Skin Innovation

Human skin is a fascinating and multifunctional organ with unique properties originating from its flexible and compliant nature. It allows for interfacing with…

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Thinking fast & slow: New DFKI project aims at making Deep Learning methods more reliable

Scientists of the German Research Center for Artificial Intelligence (DFKI) now investigate how these methods can be proven by formal procedures and thus…

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New Chip Calculates Shortest Route Instantly for Libraries

How would you go about returning books to the correct shelves in a large library with the least amount of walking? How would you determine the shortest route…

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Foundations for Building-Scale GPS Technology Unveiled

Modern mobile navigation is hardly conceivable without the use of satellite-based GPS. Similar solutions that allow for orientation within a small space, for…

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