Kitt, the famous talking car from the TV series Knight Rider, is being brought to “life” by Robin Labs, an Israeli-California start-up that has designed an intelligent voice recognition and communication system for Android devices.
Robin’s technology is designed for to get drivers updates on traffic, routes, parking locations, gas prices, weather, and more. It can even, Company co-founder and CEO Ilya Eckstein says it can even tell jokes.
Cutting back on greenhouse gases is only one part of the fight against climate change. The planet will also need to capture and store — or, better yet, capture and re-use — the gases already out there.
Now, new research from Princeton and a New Jersey-based startup has led to the most efficient way yet to convert carbon dioxide into a possible fuel.
En Allemagne, environ 8000 véhicules électriques circulent actuellement, sur les 43 millions de voitures immatriculées dans le pays. Les principaux freins à l'adoption d'un véhicule électrique sont un coût d'achat plus élevé, leur rayon d'action réduit, le manque de stations de recharge et la durée de cette recharge. Sur ce dernier point, la mise à disposition de supercondensateurs pourrait à la fois raccourcir cette étape et optimiser la récupération d'une partie de l'énergie lors du freinage.
El Gobierno de Cataluña ha decidido plantar cara al portal de Internet Airbnb al imponerle una multa de 30.000 euros por comercializar apartamentos turísticos ilegales.
It's standard to size a market by the number of widgets sold, but in the Internet of Things, which numbers sensors and devices in the billions, widget counts don't really matter. In part this is because the real money in IoT is not in the "things," but rather in the Internet-enabled services that stitch them together.
Two years after shuttering its research and development operations in Israel, device manufacturer Nokia is back. The Finnish phone maker announced that it has bought NICE System’s 3D geolocation technology, developed in Israel, planning to use its new facilities as a development center for automation technology and 3D modeling.
A survey of healthcare and life science professionals and investors suggests healthcare M&A activity will surge past 2013 levels when there were 394 deals valued at $97 billion. The report by Bass Berry & Sims and Mergermarket indicates that market disruption, brought on by the Affordable Care Act, will lead to more consolidation deals across healthcare facilities, life science and healthcare IT companies.
Several major wind-power companies are testing a departure from the industry’s standard three-bladed turbine design by dropping one of the three blades and spinning the rotor 180 degrees to face downwind.
The design presents engineering challenges, but the hope is that it could greatly improve the economics of offshore wind power. By some estimates, two-bladed turbines could cost 20 percent less to build and install while generating the same amount of power as conventional turbines.
L'imagerie par résonance magnétique (IRM) est un outil spectroscopique très utilisé en clinique, mais ses capacités potentielles restent largement sous-exploitées. En cause : le manque de sensibilité de cette technique, qui ne peut s'appliquer qu'aux molécules les plus concentrées de notre corps, à savoir l'eau dans la plupart des cas. Depuis quelques années, pour pallier ce problème, la polarisation dynamique nucléaire est utilisée conjointement avec l'IRM dans le cadre de la recherche. Des chercheurs de l'Institut Weizmann sont allés encore plus loin, en associant ces deux techniques à une stratégie d'acquisition des données permettant de suivre le métabolisme en temps réel.
