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Volvo has taken to a cutting-edge technique for reconstructing scenes in 3D virtual worlds to help its cars' safety software expect the unexpected.Continue ReadingCategory: Automotive, TransportTags: Volvo, Artificial Intelligence, Road Safety
Given how sharp utility knives are, you really don't want them deploying their blades accidentally. The Titanium Safety Portable Multi-Knife addresses that concern with a unique locking mechanism, plus it incorporates six other features.Continue ReadingCategory: Outdoors, LifestyleTags: Multitools, Knife, Titanium, Kickstarter
conducted by swiss re, the research compares how often waymo's self-driving cars get into accidents versus regular cars driven by humans. The post are waymo’s autonomous taxis safer than human-driven vehicles? new study says so appeared first on designboom | architecture & design magazine.
Researchers at the University of Mississippi have come up with a faster, more efficient method for detecting landmines – millions of which pose a lethal threat to people in war-ravaged countries all over the world. This breakthrough, which uses lasers and acoustic vibration, has the potential to save thousands of lives a year.Continue ReadingCategory: TechnologyTags: Landmine Detection, Land Mine
Three weeks after one of Waymo's autonomous vehicles drove itself into a telephone pole for no apparent reason whatsoever (prompting 672 cars recalled), Waymo has released a statement saying its AVs are still 200 to 350% better at avoiding crashes than humans.Continue ReadingCategory: TransportTags: Waymo, Autonomous Vehicles, Electric Vehicles, Traffic, Safety
Puerto Rico's Lift Foils likens its new Blowfish add-on accessory to a set of inflatable training wheels for eFoil beginners, making launches easier as well as providing a more versatile platform for seasoned flyers.Continue ReadingCategory: Marine, TransportTags: Liftfoil, eFoil, Watersport
While intravenous needles need to be rigid in order to pierce the skin, that rigidity sometimes causes damage to the veins. A new needle addresses that issue by softening upon insertion into the patient's body – plus it reduces the likelihood of needle-poke injuries.Continue ReadingCategory: Medical, ScienceTags: KAIST, Flexible, liquid metal
Ordinarily, drones flying around airports are thought of as a hazard. The AtlasNEST system, however, utilizes drones to fly over landing areas where problems may be occurring, in order to give control tower workers a bird's eye view.Continue ReadingCategory: Drones, TechnologyTags: Airports, Drone security, Autonomous flight
As forecast in June, the cancer-research arm of the World Health Organization (WHO) has officially named the non-sugar sweetener aspartame as possibly carcinogenic to humans.Continue ReadingCategory: ScienceTags: World Health Organization, FDA, Cancer, Artificial, Diet
After over three decades of effort, the United States has destroyed the last of its chemical weapon stockpile that once consisted of 30,000 tonnes of deadly chemical agents in explosive munitions and storage containers.Continue ReadingCategory: Military, TechnologyTags: Department of Defense, Chemical Weapons


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