Jason Scott, tech archivist, announced today the creation of a new website referred to as Discmaster which allows the search of 91.7 million vintage computer files obtained from floppy disks and CD-ROM releases. These files include games, images, music, shareware,…
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Technical papers written in the field of wireless sensor networks
Interpol is Setting Up a Police Team in the Metaverse
Interpol, the global security organization has just announced ‘the first-ever metaverse specifically designed for law enforcement worldwide.’ They report that this would help police officers worldwide to ‘interact with other officers via their avatars,’ and take ‘immersive training courses in…
Researchers Say Anonymous Data doesn’t equal Private Data
A research team at the Illinois Institute of Technology have been successful in extracting personal information such as gender and age from anonymous cellphone data making use of artificial intelligence and machine learning algorithms. This has raised a lot of…
Mobile App Can Help Detect Parkinson’s Disease Early
A research team of neurologists and engineers led by RMIT University in Melbourne recently developed a novel screening test app which could help in the early detection of severe COVID-19 and Parkinson’s diseases with just the use of people’s voice…
Leading Tech Firms Promise not to Weaponize Robots
Boston Dynamics as well as five other robotics companies recently signed an open letter promising not to weaponize general-purpose robots— a much needed relief to the public. Agility Robotics, ANYbotics, Clearpath Robotics, Open Robotics, Unitree, and Boston Dynamics—the six leading…
Cassie, a Running Robot Breaks Guinness World Record for 100-Meter Dash
A bipedal robot referred to as ‘Cassie’ has just earned the official Guinness World Record of the fastest 100 meters ran by a bipedal robot. Cassie was created under the direction of Robotics Professor Jonathan Hurst at Agility Robotics, a…
Tiny Autonomous Robots Can Move on Human Hair
Cornell University is currently leading the race to create the smallest and most efficient robots. A team from the university recently developed a set of robots small enough to sit on human hair, and with the ability to move on…
Annual Salary for U.S. Engineers Drops
In 2021, the average income of engineers and other tech professionals in the U.S. went up to $160,097 from $154,443 in 2020. The IEEE-USA 2022 Salary & Benefits Survey revealed the bump in pay. However, when converted to real dollars,…
Novel Hearing Aids Technology Can Read Lips through Facemasks
An international team of computing scientists and engineers have developed a new system that is capable of reading lips with accuracy even when the speaker is wearing a facemask. The system combines artificial intelligence with radio-frequency to identify lip movements.…
Apple Cautions Against Security Vulnerability in iPhones, Macs, and iPads
On Wednesday, Apple revealed that their iPhones, iPads and Macs have serious vulnerabilities which could give hackers complete control of these devices. The explanation of the vulnerability given by Apple suggests that the attacker could obtain ‘full admin access’ to…