21Gru
Smartwatch and wristband powered by human body movement.

Smartwatch and wristband powered by human body movement. (Nr 42/2020)

Scientists at the Chinese University of Hong Kong have developed a compact electromagnetic generator that uses human body movements for powering smart watches....

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14Gru
Google's artificial intelligence continues to overcome barriers.

Google's artificial intelligence continues to overcome barriers. (Nr 41/2020)

DeepMind, a Google-owned artificial intelligence (AI) program, has made a breakthrough in solving one of the greatest challenges in biology, to determine a pro...

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7Gru
Microsoft uses third dimension to save data as holograms.

Microsoft uses third dimension to save data as holograms. (Nr 40/2020)

Microsoft announced the launch of the HSD (Holographic Storage Device) project aimed at creating a successor to SSDs and HDDs. Under the project, scientists ar...

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30Lis
The pandemic has some benefits anyway.

The pandemic has some benefits anyway. (Nr 39/2020)

According to observations from the ground and in the space, there has been a significant reduction in some air pollutants since the COVID-19 pandemic outbreak....

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23Lis
Optical fiber under high pressure.

Optical fiber under high pressure. (Nr 38/2020)

Using computer simulations, scientists from the University of Hokkaido and Pennsylvania State University have proved that data transmission through optical fib...

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16Lis
Engineers are working on the self-watering soil that could transform farming.

Engineers are working on the self-watering soil that could transform farming. (Nr 37/2020)

Engineers at the University of Texas in Austin have created a new type of soil that can pull water from the air on cool, humid days and at night, and then rele...

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9Lis
Printed biomedical sensors.

Printed biomedical sensors. (Nr 36/2020)

An international team of scientists from the US and China have developed a new simple way to place electronic circuits directly on the skin and use them to bui...

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2Lis
Historic landing on an asteroid.

Historic landing on an asteroid. (Nr 35/2020)

On October 20, NASA successfully completed another mission. For the first time in NASA history, the OSIRIS-REx probe collected a sample from Bennu asteroid (mo...

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26Paź
Graphene bolometers for quantum processors.

Graphene bolometers for quantum processors. (Nr 34/2020)

Physicists from Aalto University and VTT Technical Research Center in Finland have developed a new detector to measure energy quanta with unprecedented speed a...

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19Paź
A Swedish startup planning a revolution in road transport with driverless goods vehicles to hit the road soon.

A Swedish startup planning a revolution in road transport with driverless goods vehicles to hit the road soon. (Nr 33/2020)

Einride, a Swedish startup manufacturer of driverless electric trucks, has presented a new vehicle that the company hopes to introduce in road transport in 202...

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12Paź
Graphene supercapacitors in electric vehicles.

Graphene supercapacitors in electric vehicles. (Nr 32/2020)

Skeleton Technololgies, an Estonian manufacturer of graphene supercapacitors, is working with the German Institute of Technology in Karlsruhe (KIT) to develop ...

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5Paź
Back to the moon.

Back to the moon. (Nr 31/2020)

The space agency NASA has released plans for the Artemis program to begin next year. If things go as planned, the final project will be landing of astronauts o...

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28Wrz
How many CCTV cameras are there currently in London?

How many CCTV cameras are there currently in London? (Nr 30/2020)

There are now around 25 million CCTV cameras estimated to be in use worldwide, and London is one of the best monitored cities in the world. Official figures o...

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21Wrz
The ground-breaking battery-free Game Boy.

The ground-breaking battery-free Game Boy. (Nr 29/2020)

Scientists from the US Northwestern University engineered a game console called Engage, which is a replica of the legendary Game Boy, a console first released ...

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14Wrz
Bill Gates invests in satellite dishes.

Bill Gates invests in satellite dishes. (Nr 28/2020)

The co-founder of Microsoft has once again financially supported Kymeta. This American company is involved in creating solutions for continuous and reliable acc...

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7Wrz
Another speed record!

Another speed record! (Nr 27/2020)

The latest achievement of the UCL (University College London) scientists and employees of Xter and KDDI Research meets with great admiration from those dealing...

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31Sie
Amazon Dash Cart – the intelligent shopping cart.

Amazon Dash Cart – the intelligent shopping cart. (Nr 26/2020)

Amazon has presented a smart shopping cart that uses cameras and sensors to identify the items put inside by a customer. Named Amazon Dash Cart, the smart cart...

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22Cze
Driverless buses in cities – EU pilot program.

Driverless buses in cities – EU pilot program. (Nr 25/2020)

A real revolution in public transport is coming by bringing driverless buses to the streets of European cities. At the initiative of the European Union, a proj...

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15Cze
Asians are already working on the 6G network development.

Asians are already working on the 6G network development. (Nr 24/2020)

No sooner had the 5G technology been implemented around the world than the race began among companies to develop the next, sixth generation of the cellular net...

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8Cze
5G on the roof of the world!

5G on the roof of the world! (Nr 23/2020)

Cellular coverage in the mountains is hardly ever good. This is of course due to the terrain and the cost that the operator would have to bear to build a syste...

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1Cze
The fastest camera in the world.

The fastest camera in the world. (Nr 22/2020)

In an article published in the Nature Communications journal, scientists from the California Institute of Technology presented a new imaging technique that can...

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25Maj
A new type of memory can change computers.

A new type of memory can change computers. (Nr 21/2020)

Seeking to create smaller and more efficient computers, scientists from the New York University (NYU) have developed a new digital data storage technology name...

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18Maj
Green energy for industry through artificial intelligence and cameras.

Green energy for industry through artificial intelligence and cameras. (Nr 20/2020)

The American company Heliogen has engineered a method to utilise solar energy to generate and store heat for use in heavy industry as an alternative to fossil ...

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11Maj
An enzyme that will improve the quality of recycling.

An enzyme that will improve the quality of recycling. (Nr 19/2020)

The whole world has been trying for years to find a method for low-cost processing of plastic. Typical plastic, e.g. a bottle, turns into a ‘new’ material when...

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4Maj
Will drones help fight the coronavirus?

Will drones help fight the coronavirus? (Nr 18/2020)

In cooperation with Draganfly, an American drone-manufacturing company, the Westport Police Department in Connecticut (a state close to New York that has seen ...

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27Kwi
New solar cells for record performance.

New solar cells for record performance. (Nr 17/2020)

Scientists from the US National Renewable Energy Lab (NREL) have produced a six-junction solar cell with the solar conversion efficiency of 47.1%, the highest ...

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20Kwi
A radio telescope in outer space.

A radio telescope in outer space. (Nr 16/2020)

NASA has announced plans to use a crater on the surface of the moon to deploy a giant 1 km radio telescope. The lunar crater radio telescope (LCRT) would rely ...

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13Kwi
AI learns to understand brain signals.

AI learns to understand brain signals. (Nr 15/2020)

Scientists from the University of California, San Francisco, used deep-learning algorithms to translate brain signals into sentences.They were able to generate...

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6Kwi
A single receiver and

A single receiver and "antenna" for the whole 0 - 100 GHz spectrum? (Nr 14/2020)

American army scientists have developed a receiver that allows to detect signals almost over the entire radio frequency spectrum, from 0 to 100 GHz. The invent...

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30Mar
A 15-hour energy storage system in New York.

A 15-hour energy storage system in New York. (Nr 13/2020)

Zinc8 Energy Solution, a Canadian start-up previously known as MGX Renewables, has signed an agreement to implement an innovative energy storage system in New...

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23Mar
Neural hardware for faster image recognition.

Neural hardware for faster image recognition. (Nr 12/2020)

Scientists from the Technical University of Vienna (Technische Universität Wien, TUW) have developed an electronic system capable of object recognition, consis...

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16Mar
Commercial spaceflights.

Commercial spaceflights. (Nr 11/2020)

An American company, Axiom Space, plans to send tourists to the International Space Station (ISS) for 10 days in the second half of 2021. Dubbed Crew Dragon, t...

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9Mar
The first checkout-free supermarket in Lisbon

The first checkout-free supermarket in Lisbon (Nr 10/2020)

Jerónimo Martins, a Portuguese retail group, has just opened its first cashless Pingo Doce supermarket in Carcavelos in Lisbon. Known as Pingo Doce & Go Lab St...

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2Mar
Can drones provide internet coverage?

Can drones provide internet coverage? (Nr 9/2020)

In 2017, Rahul Tiwari, a 22-year-old student at Purdue University in the state of Indiana, USA, hit on an ingenious way to bring internet coverage to remote ar...

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24Lut
The world's first all-optical data encryption technology.

The world's first all-optical data encryption technology. (Nr 8/2020)

BGN Technologies, a technology transfer company based at the Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Israel, has developed what it hails as a new technology for th...

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17Lut
Solar panels that work round the clock.

Solar panels that work round the clock. (Nr 7/2020)

Engineers from the University of California, Davis, are currently working on anti-solar cells designed to complement the already well-known photovoltaic panels...

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10Lut
A new European 5G speed record.

A new European 5G speed record. (Nr 6/2020)

Italian cellphone operator, TIM (Telecom Italia Mobile), has just announced a new transmission speed record in a commercial 5G network. In tandem with Ericsson...

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3Lut
Hikvision identifies 7 key trends for the security industry in 2020.

Hikvision identifies 7 key trends for the security industry in 2020. (Nr 5/2020)

The new year may bring many important innovations in the security industry. New technologies, such as multi-dimensional perception, ultra-high definition (UHD)...

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27Sty
AI will create videos based on text description.

AI will create videos based on text description. (Nr 4/2020)

An international research group has developed a tool capable of generating videos based on text inputs and video repositories. To quickly create high-quality v...

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20Sty
Undersea fiber-optic cables will help detect earthquakes.

Undersea fiber-optic cables will help detect earthquakes. (Nr 3/2020)

In an article published in the journal Science, researchers from the University of California, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab), Monterey ...

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13Sty
AI protects salmon against parasites

AI protects salmon against parasites (Nr 2/2020)

Parasites such as sea lice have a serious impact on salmon farm populations around the world. In recent years, sea lice have depleted the total stock of Norweg...

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6Sty
Is language learning a thing of the past?

Is language learning a thing of the past? (Nr 1/2020)

Communicating in languages you don't know may no longer be the stuff of dreams. Google has just announced its "Google Assistant" app has been upgraded to inclu...

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