How to hear your way to happiness. “We are finding that sound is affecting not just the perception of our body shape but our physical capabilities. Understand these sounds and we could change our feelings in a positive way.” The … Continue reading
Where does imagination come from anyway? New research shows it’s more complex than we ever, uh, imagined. There’s a lot we still don’t know about how the brain generates new ideas. Brain mapping is in its infancy, and creativity is … Continue reading
Sports viewers have always been obsessed with data, and now analytics is changing the viewing experience, in real time. Beyond internal use, this information could also be used by broadcasters during television broadcasts to give viewers a more detailed analysis … Continue reading
Making satellites “green” and all electric. The Boeing 702SP (small platform) satellites are affordable and lightweight, and provide more options for movement to different orbital positions. The 702SP is one of three new satellite designs Boeing has introduced in four … Continue reading
Why 2014 was a big year for retail cyber-theft — especially in the U.S. The attacks started in December 2013 with US retailer Target. Throughout 2014 other stores, including Home Depot, Staples, Sears, Neiman Marcus, Nordstrom to name but a … Continue reading
A new smart football helmet has been developed which knows how many times it, and the head contained within, have been hit. (Video, 3 mins) Coaches from around the nation learned about the latest developments in helmet safety Sunday at … Continue reading
A research group has developed a way to collect brain thoughts and transmit them wirelessly. After more than a decade of engineering work, researchers at Brown University and a Utah company, Blackrock Microsystems, have commercialized a wireless device that can … Continue reading
An important part of moving compute workloads around diverse cloud environments is the ability to bundle them in containers, such as Docker. Docker is meant to free developers from software and infrastructure dependencies, leading to cost savings and other efficiencies … Continue reading
Seems like the corporate world has needed “Facebook with Meetings” and now it will get just that. While Facebook At Work looks and feels like the social network we’ve all grown accustomed to, it is meant to be used as … Continue reading
Last summer, Samsung bought IoT startup SmartThings for $200M, and now is committing $100M to seed an eco-system of apps and developers. Samsung isn’t just funding developers to create an open IoT system but also opening its devices up to … Continue reading