December 6, 2023

University of Arizona: New wearable communication system offers potential to reduce digital health divide

University of Arizona: New wearable communication system offers potential to reduce digital health divide. “wearables currently require significant infrastructure – such as satellites or arrays of antennas that use cell signals – to transmit data, making many of those devices inaccessible to rural and under-resourced communities. A group of University of Arizona researchers has set out to change that with a wearable monitoring device system that can send health data up to 15 miles – much farther than Wi-Fi or Bluetooth systems can – without any significant infrastructure. Their device, they hope, will help make digital health access more equitable.”

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December 6, 2023

Broadband buzz: Periodical cicadas’ chorus measured with fiber optic cables (Newswise)

Newswise: Broadband buzz: Periodical cicadas’ chorus measured with fiber optic cables. “Hung from a common utility pole, a fiber optic cable—the kind bringing high-speed internet to more and more American households—can be turned into a sensor to detect temperature changes, vibrations, and even sound, through an emerging technology called distributed fiber optic sensing. However, as NEC Labs America photonics researcher Sarper Ozharar, Ph.D., explains, acoustic sensing in fiber optic cables ‘is limited to only nearby sound sources or very loud events, such as emergency vehicles, car alarms, or cicada emergences.’”

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November 27, 2023

Associated Press: Pentagon’s AI initiatives accelerate hard decisions on lethal autonomous weapons

Associated Press: Pentagon’s AI initiatives accelerate hard decisions on lethal autonomous weapons. “Artificial intelligence employed by the U.S. military has piloted pint-sized surveillance drones in special operations forces’ missions and helped Ukraine in its war against Russia. It tracks soldiers’ fitness, predicts when Air Force planes need maintenance and helps keep tabs on rivals in space. Now, the Pentagon is intent on fielding multiple thousands of relatively inexpensive, expendable AI-enabled autonomous vehicles by 2026 to keep pace with China.”

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November 23, 2023

University of Waterloo: Revolutionizing the way air quality data is shared

University of Waterloo: Revolutionizing the way air quality data is shared. “Shahan Salim, a PhD candidate in the School of Public Health Sciences and a member of the Waterloo Climate Institute’s COP 28 delegation, has designed, in partnership with UNICEF in Mongolia, a platform to use data from low-cost air quality sensors to monitor and predict adverse outcomes related to air pollution exposure in underserved communities.”

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November 7, 2023

Syracuse University: Smart Speakers, Smarter Protection

Syracuse University: Smart Speakers, Smarter Protection. “Whether you’re looking to try a new recipe, dimming the lights in your living room, or curious about the species of bacteria living inside your mouth, Amazon Alexa has got you covered. With a simple voice command, Alexa’s ability to perform various tasks or answer questions has made it widely popular, with over 40 million users in the United States alone. Despite the convenience smart speakers like Alexa offer, these devices have also raised some privacy concerns.”

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October 9, 2023

Princeton University: The world has a food-waste problem. Can this wireless tech help fix it?

Princeton University: The world has a food-waste problem. Can this wireless tech help fix it?. “One bad apple may not spoil the whole bunch, but when it comes to distributing food, a lot of good goes out with the bad. Now, researchers from Princeton University and Microsoft Research have developed a fast and accurate way to determine fruit quality, piece by piece, using high-frequency wireless technology. The new tool gives suppliers a way to sort fruit based on fine-grained ripeness measurements.”

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October 5, 2023

Stanford Medicine: Wearable device data reveals that reduced sleep and activity in pregnancy is linked to premature birth risk

Stanford Medicine: Wearable device data reveals that reduced sleep and activity in pregnancy is linked to premature birth risk. “In the study, which published online Sept. 28 in npj Digital Medicine, the researchers collected data from devices worn by more than 1,000 women throughout pregnancy. With a machine learning algorithm, the scientists sifted through participants’ activity information to detect fine-grained changes in sleep and physical activity patterns.”

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September 30, 2023

UC San Diego Today: These Screen-printed, Flexible Sensors Allow Earbuds to Record Brain Activity and Exercise Levels

UC San Diego Today: These Screen-printed, Flexible Sensors Allow Earbuds to Record Brain Activity and Exercise Levels . “A pair of earbuds can be turned into a tool to record the electrical activity of the brain as well as levels of lactate in the body with the addition of two flexible sensors screen-printed onto a stamp-like flexible surface.”

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September 16, 2023

New York Times: TikTok Rankles Employees With Return-to-Office Tracking Tools

New York Times: TikTok Rankles Employees With Return-to-Office Tracking Tools. “TikTok employees in the United States expressed frustration and dismay this week after the company introduced a tool for tracking office attendance and threatened disciplinary action for failing to comply with new in-person mandates, in an unusual effort to get workers back into the office with custom data-collection technology.”

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September 16, 2023

Clemson News: Clemson students’ deployment of novel camera alert system, TrailGuard AI, featured in BioScience, promotes coexistence of tigers, humans

Clemson News: Clemson students’ deployment of novel camera alert system, TrailGuard AI, featured in BioScience, promotes coexistence of tigers, humans. “Last year, the Global Tiger Forum, the National Tiger Conservation Authority and RESOLVE partnered with Clemson University to test conservation technology: TrailGuard AI, a camera-alert system powered by artificial intelligence (AI) that remains hidden from poachers while detecting wild tigers and transmits real-time images to the cell phones and computers of concerned entities like park rangers.”

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September 6, 2023

Associated Press: Carmakers fail privacy test, give owners little or no control on personal data they collect

Associated Press: Carmakers fail privacy test, give owners little or no control on personal data they collect. “Cars are getting an ‘F’ in data privacy. Most major manufacturers admit they may be selling your personal information, a new study finds, with half also saying they would share it with the government or law enforcement without a court order. The proliferation of sensors in automobiles — from telematics to fully digitized control consoles — has made them prodigious data-collection hubs.” Never thought I’d be glad our car is 15 years old.

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