It’s aggravating to have your social media account hacked. A credit card account being hacked can be disastrous. It’s possible that having your new electric vehicle hacked will be disastrous. After a century of focusing primarily on engineering issues, automakers are confronted with a.....
Shopify is well known for providing independent merchants with a platform to start, operate, market and manage their businesses. But over the past 5 years, the company has been steadily growing one more part of its own business: Shopify Capital. With this arm, Canada’s trade gian.....
Prof. Pan Jianwei and colleagues from the Chinese Academy of Sciences University of Science and Technology of China investigated high-loss free space, high-precision time-frequency dissemination between remote locations, simulating high-precision time-frequency high-orbit satellite-ground links i.....
Current semiconductor chip shortages are slowing global automotive manufacturing. What was initially dismissed as a brief hiccup in semiconductor supply is now looking more and more like a year-long shortage, which would be devastating to automakers. They planned to ramp up production this year t.....
Apple will begin requiring app developers to inform users about the tracking information they wish to collect and obtain permission to do so, displaying what has been dubbed “privacy nutrition labels.” Apple’s move, which has been in the works for months, has sparked a major sch.....
Crash test dummies were invent in 1949, which makes it even more surprising that in the 1950s the U.S. Air Force tested ejector seats on top of its aircraft and put live bears in chairs. In 1950, the Atomic Bomb Conveyor B-58 Hostler built. It was a successful bomber capable of 2 March flights (t.....
Anyone who has had children knows that while controlling one child can be difficult, controlling multiple children at the same time can be nearly impossible. Getting swarms of robots to work together can be equally difficult unless researchers carefully choreograph their interactions, similar to .....
A new tiltrotor testbed recently completed by the US Army will aid the service in combating the dangerous whirl flutter phenomenon found in tiltrotors. A team of US Army researchers and industry partners completed the construction of a testbed that will help to inform the design of future Army ro.....
During a Senate no-confidence hearing yesterday, questions were raised about Apple Store’s inability to rein in subscription scammers. The technology giant argues that one of the reasons developers need to pay app store commissions is to help Apple fight market fraud and protect consumers. .....
Although the concept of “deepfax” or AI-produced synthetic imagery is largely related to human voluntary imagery, the technology is dangerous (and interesting) in other ways. For example, researchers have shown that it can be used to create real-looking – but completely fake .....
Keeping plastic pollution away is one of the ultimate environmental challenges of the human environment. Over the past several years, more focus has been placed on compostable and biodegradable plastics, but specific processes are required to break them down. Researchers have now announced a new .....
Quadrotor acrobatic flight is extremely difficult. High thrust and extreme angular accelerations are required for maneuvers such as the loop, matty flip, and barrel roll, which push the platform to its physical limits. Human drone pilots need years of practice to master such agile maneuvers safel.....