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Global economy 2023: how countries around the world are tackling the cost of living crisis

March 10, 2023

UK: recession on the horizon At first sight, the UK’s cost of living crisis might look fairly mild compared to other countries. Its inflation rate was 10.7% in November 2022, compared to 12.6% in Italy, 16.% in […]

Worker shortage? Or poor work conditions? Here’s what’s really vexing Canadian restaurants

October 14, 2021

Restaurant operators across Canada are struggling to find enough staff to run their operations. This labour crisis has been highly publicized by Canadian media as a “labour shortage.” A recent survey by Restaurants Canada found that 80 per […]

A unified cybersecurity strategy is the key to protecting businesses

June 3, 2022

Following the changes the pandemic has brought about in the business world, organizations have significantly increased their use of data and the internet. This, in turn, has increased the prevalence of cyberattacks and cybersecurity risks. Accounting firm PricewaterhouseCoopers […]

A natural and comfortable 'seamless-walk' virtual reality locomotion system

April 11, 2023

Urban real-world environments have limited physical space for foot-based locomotion and present challenges to natural VR locomotion (since virtual environments [...]
AI-equipped eyeglasses read silent speech

April 6, 2023

Cornell University researchers have developed a silent-speech recognition interface that uses acoustic-sensing and artificial intelligence to continuously recognize up to [...]
Sustainable process chains for the manufacture of resilient and smart tools

April 4, 2023

Whether drilling, turning or milling: In machining—as well as in primary forming and re-forming, die casting and many other applications—tools [...]
Getting up close and personal with a computer: How smart textiles aid communication with virtual worlds

April 4, 2023

Say goodbye to games controllers or keyboards, say hello to highly flexible, ultrathin silicone films. Professor Stefan Seelecke and his [...]
Magnetic tunnel junctions can prevent tampering and piracy of intellectual property

April 3, 2023

Imagine a movie about a rogue employee who breaches security in a company that implants chips inside half of the [...]
Examining what it's going to take to get real scalability for chip-based decision-making

March 31, 2023

The case for building Scalable Neuromorphic Networks is this: like humans, smarter chips have a larger, tighter neural network. Indeed, [...]
New chip design to provide greatest precision in memory to date

March 29, 2023

Everyone is talking about the newest AI and the power of neural networks, forgetting that software is limited by the [...]
A gate driver for circuit bipolar transistor electronic switches

March 23, 2023

Many homes have electronic timers for automatically turning lights on or off automatically the same time each day. However, the [...]
Detecting manipulations in microchips

March 20, 2023

Attackers have the ability not only to manipulate software, but also to tamper with the hardware. A team from Bochum [...]
Standardizing 'low-cost' air quality monitors to help measure pollution

March 17, 2023

In a recent paper published in Nature Reviews Physics, Professor Richard Brown and Dr. Nick Martin, discuss how the standardization [...]
A system integrating echo state graph neural networks and analogue random resistive memory arrays

March 15, 2023

Graph neural networks (GNNs) are promising machine learning architectures designed to analyze data that can be represented as graphs. These [...]

Vertical electrochemical transistor pushes wearable electronics forward

January 19, 2023

A transdisciplinary Northwestern University research team has developed a revolutionary transistor that is expected be ideal for lightweight, flexible, high-performance [...]
AI tools can create new images, but who is the real artist?

January 19, 2023

Countless artists have taken inspiration from “The Starry Night” since Vincent Van Gogh painted the swirling scene in 1889.This post [...]
Using a deep neural network to improve virtual images of people created using WiFi signals

January 18, 2023

A trio of researchers at Carnegie Mellon University has taken the use of WiFi signals to identify people in a [...]
Electric car batteries could be key to boosting energy storage: Study

January 17, 2023

Electric car batteries could be used to boost power storage in the future, injecting electricity into the grid during times [...]
Preventing vehicle crashes by learning from insects

January 17, 2023

Despite only about 25% of car travel happening after dark, almost half of fatal accidents occur at night. As our [...]

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