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This smart shell can turn your Android smartphone into a complete laptop

ujjwal on 08/15/2016 at 6:05pm (UTC)

NEW YORK: A US-based startup has launched a smart laptop shell that turns your Android smartphone into a complete laptop -- making it more convenient and affordable for people in developing countries like India and South Africa to carry their office in their pocket, literally.
The shell, called Superbook by Andromium, makes an Android smartphone output look very much like a desktop environment. It is essentially a "dumb terminal"-- a notebook without a processor but with a keyboard, battery, trackpad and display, TreeHugger reported on Saturday.

Scientists develop 'transparent transistor tech'

ujjwal on 08/15/2016 at 6:04pm (UTC)

Scientists have found a way to make transparent transistors and other essential components of electronic circuitry, an advance that may lead to displays on car windscreens, transparent TV sets and smart windows.
Indium tin oxide (ITO) is the current material of choice for electronics because it combines optical transparency with electrical conductivity. Its use ranges from touch-sensitive smartphone screens to light-harvesting solar panels.
Indium is in short supply, and as demand increases for ITO-containing devices, so does the price of indium. One promising low-cost ITO alternative is a transparent material known as aluminium-doped zinc oxide (AZO), researchers said.
"The elements that make up this material are more abundant than indium, making AZO a commercially sensible option," said Professor Husam Alshareef from the King Abdullah University of Science and Technology (KAUST) in Saudi Arabia.
"However, electronic devices made using AZO have traditionally shown inferior performance to devices made using ITO," said Alshareef, who led the research.

Singapore's businesses are turning to robots, here's why

ujjwal on 08/15/2016 at 6:03pm (UTC)

Sherine Toh says her best days at work are when none of the 600-or-so staff at Singapore's Tung Lok Restaurants (TGLK.SI) quits, though such days are rare.
The Chinese restaurant group is one of the thousands of businesses struggling with a labor crunch caused by foreign worker curbs, that threaten the city-state's already feeble growth rates.
"It has gotten much more tougher compared to the old days, five years back," said Toh, who has at least 20 vacancies to fill at any one time as head of human resources. The group closed some outlets because of the shortage.
The city's restaurants, hotels and retailers have become the biggest casualties of the labor crunch since Singapore accelerated restrictions on foreign workers in 2011 as political disquiet about immigration grew. But its highly-educated locals largely shun the late hours and unglamorous work.
To address the constraints, Singapore is pushing businesses to look to non-human solutions for their human resource challenges, including greater use of automation and robotics.

Tesla is no longer 'autopilot' in China

ujjwal on 08/15/2016 at 6:02pm (UTC)

Tesla removed the word "autopilot" and a Chinese term for "self-driving" from its China website after a driver in Beijing who crashed in "autopilot" mode complained that the car maker overplayed the function's capability and misled buyers.
The Tesla driver crashed earlier this month while on a Beijing commuter highway after the car failed to avoid a vehicle parked on the left side, partially in the roadway, damaging both cars but causing no injuries.
It was the first known such crash in China, though it follows a fatal accident in Florida earlier this year that put pressure on the auto executives and regulators to tighten rules for automated driving.
"At Tesla we are continuously making improvements, including to translations," a Tesla spokeswoman said in an emailed statement to Reuters.
"We've been in the process of addressing any discrepancies across languages for many weeks. Timing had nothing to do with current events or articles."
References to autopilot and the term "zidong jiashi", which most literally translates as self-driving although also means autopilot, were taken off the webpage for the Model S sedan by late Sunday, according to a comparison with an archived version of page.
Both terms previously appeared several times on the site. Instead a phrase that translates as 'self-assisted driving' is used.

Arunachal-Pradesh-gets-its-first-free-Wi-Fi-hotspot

ujjwal on 08/15/2016 at 5:59pm (UTC)

Data is transferred through a series of quick flashes, imperceivable to the human eye yet loud and clear to a receiving sensor. That's because in these nanocrystals, the optical processes operate on a time-scale of about seven nanoseconds, meaning the optical emission of the light operates at a frequency of 491 MHz. That in turn allows the data to be transmitted at 2 Gbps, although other research indicates VLC could go as fast as 10 Gbps.
"The rapid response is partly due to the size of the crystals," says Osman Bakr, Associate Professor at KAUST. "Spatial confinement makes it more likely that the electron will recombine with a hole and emit a photon."

Nanocrystals speed up Wi-Fi-emitting LEDs

ujjwal on 08/15/2016 at 5:59pm (UTC)

Communication technologies like Bluetooth and Wi-Fi operate on invisible radio waves, but transmitting data on wavelengths we can see might turn out to be more efficient and secure. Researchers at King Abdullah University of Science and Technology (KAUST) have developed a nanocrystal that helps boost data speeds transmitted through a visible light LED up to 2 Gbps - while pleasantly lighting the room.

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