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Voice control everywhere

https://news.mit.edu | Larry Hardesty | MIT News Office   February 14, 2017 Comments Off on Voice control everywhere

Low-power special-purpose chip could make speech recognition ubiquitous in electronics. The butt of jokes as little as 10 years ago, automatic speech recognition is now on the verge of becoming... Read More

Piaggio Group Reinvents the Future of Transportation with Introduction of Gita, the First Offering by Piaggio Fast Forward

https://www.businesswire.com February 9, 2017 Comments Off on Piaggio Group Reinvents the Future of Transportation with Introduction of Gita, the First Offering by Piaggio Fast Forward

Piaggio Group, the largest European manufacturer of two-wheel motor vehicles, a leader in light mobility founded over 130 years ago, has launched Piaggio Fast Forward, a newly-established company based in... Read More

Toward all-solid lithium batteries

https://news.mit.edu | David L. Chandler | MIT News Office February 3, 2017 Comments Off on Toward all-solid lithium batteries

Researchers investigate mechanics of lithium sulfides, which show promise as solid electrolytes. Most batteries are composed of two solid, electrochemically active layers called electrodes, separated by a polymer membrane infused... Read More

Paris experiments with driverless buses

https://phys.org/ January 29, 2017 Comments Off on Paris experiments with driverless buses

Paris began its first experiment with driverless buses on Monday, with city officials saying they were eager to prepare for the coming “revolution” of autonomous vehicles. Two box-shaped electric vehicles... Read More

Artificial intelligence learns to predict heart failure

https://csc.mrc.ac.uk/ January 19, 2017 Comments Off on Artificial intelligence learns to predict heart failure

Computers have learned to predict survival in patients with a heart condition more accurately than is possible today. In the future, this may help doctors to identify patients at greatest... Read More

World’s first floating city one step closer to reality in French Polynesia

https://inhabitat.com/ January 16, 2017 Comments Off on World’s first floating city one step closer to reality in French Polynesia

San Francisco’s Seasteading Institute has signed a memorandum of understanding with the French Polynesian government that brings the world’s first floating city closer to reality. The Seasteading Institute first established... Read More

Researchers design one of the strongest, lightest materials known

https://news.mit.edu | David L. Chandler | MIT News Office January 9, 2017 Comments Off on Researchers design one of the strongest, lightest materials known

A team of researchers at MIT has designed one of the strongest lightweight materials known, by compressing and fusing flakes of graphene, a two-dimensional form of carbon. The new material,... Read More

New drone dives like a bird and leaps like a flying fish

Imperial College London December 17, 2016 Comments Off on New drone dives like a bird and leaps like a flying fish

Engineers have developed a prototype drone that dives like a gannet and launches like a flying fish, to collect water samples. Gannets are the largest seabirds in the north Atlantic... Read More