Dimer UVC’s ultraviolet germ zapper took some very hands-on design work. The GermFalcon uses ultraviolet light to wipe out coronavirus and other germs inside an airplane.Dr. Arthur Kreitenberg and his son Elliot got some strange looks when they began the design work for the GermFalcon, a new machine that uses ultraviolet light to wipe out coronavirus and other germs inside an airplane. The fat...

Its very easy to get caught up in the emotions of a potentially life-threatening pandemic. Especially as we enter the phase where infection numbers begin to ramp up dramatically. That is now happening as near our office, new infection cases were found in Manhattan, Westchester County, NJ and Long Island. (Manhattan cases include Blackrock, RBC, Point72, & FDNY).There are concrete steps you...

The visible light communication scheme could offer hospitals a potentially faster, more reliable option than Wi-Fi.[Researchers used this neurosurgery operation room at Motol University Hospital in Prague to make channel measurements for Li-Fi. Six Li-Fi receivers are positioned along the sides of the operating table.]Li-Fi, which is short for “light fidelity,” is a wireless technology that u...

U.K. consumers are actively stockpiling grocery and health and personal care items as concerns grow around COVID-19 becoming a worldwide pandemic. Stocks of hand sanitisers and toilet paper have already dried up in some stores, as the supply chains come under pressure to mitigate any delays to replenishments.In doing so, the U.K. is following in the footsteps of many other countries including C...

We are in 2020 and so far it has been one crisis after another. What truly gives me hope is the time I spend with my dog. It is a moment away from the chaos and I often wonder if my dog knows what is happening around us? Do our pets have a sixth sense for disasters as they do for our emotions? Dogs are one of the most intelligent domestic companions to have and our furry friends truly form an i...

Today the US Patent & Trademark Office published a patent application from Apple that relates to a possible future folding iPad that would be able to go into a second mode called the "joint operating mode" where one image could be seamlessly divided into two displays. It's a feature that Microsoft's next-gen folding tablet called "Surface Neo" has shown to feature as the image above illustr...

As uncertainty over coronavirus continues to grow, consumers are becoming more cautious about shopping in public places and are utilizing online shopping as a means of getting necessities.Nearly half (47.2%) of US internet users polled by Coresight Research last month said they are currently avoiding shopping centers and malls. If the outbreak worsens, roughly three-quarters (74.6%) said they w...

Machine learning research has advanced in multiple aspects, including model structures and learning methods. The effort to automate such research, known as AutoML, has also made significant progress. However, this progress has largely focused on the architecture of neural networks, where it has relied on sophisticated expert-designed layers as building blocks---or similarly restrictive search s...

The subscription economy is evolving into an experience-driven outcome economy​How to stay competitive in the experience-driven outcome economy? This article, eighth in a series, argues that companies should look to transform their customer support function’s role to one of customer advocacy.IN today’s experience-driven outcome economy, always-on customers are increasingly seeking a dynamic...