Shanghai Jiushi, the largest bus company in Shanghai, has launched buses running on biodiesel produced from edible oil by using special technology. More than 2,000 buses used biodiesel fuel, which is more environmentally friendly than traditional diesel, started on May 7 across Shanghai. Applicable for refueling buses, B5 fuel consists of 5% of biodiesel, obtained by processing waste vegetable...
Artificial intelligence is getting deployed in several spheres and the use keep expanding. Facial recognition is one aspect that is gaining wide prospective applications in China. Tencent last year disclosed it will use facial recognition to detect underage gamers in order to curb China’s growing gaming addiction. Baidu also recently showcased a cat shelter that uses facial recognition to...
Korean market has been one of the leading in production of smartphones, thanks to home grown companies like Samsung and LG. However, it now seems that the once-bustling smartphone plans for productions are now about to fade out.
Both smartphone brands from South Korea — Samsung Electronics and LG Electronics are either shutting down their production lines in the home...
Bioengineers at Rice University have made a breakthrough in bioprinting of tissues. The team has been able to create entangled vascular networks that can mimic the body’s natural passageways for blood, air, lymph, and other vital fluids. Scientists created a proof-of-principal that is a hydrogel model of a lung-mimicking air sac that has airways delivering oxygen to surrounding blood...
Researchers at Arizona State University have developed ‘mechanical trees’ that capture CO2 passively and sequester it for industrial and agricultural use.
The technology involves discs of sorbent stacked in columns. When a column is fully extended, the discs are exposed to air and capture atmospheric CO2. Once full, the discs are them lowered back into the column where the CO2...
for the first time ever, said the University of Maryland Medical Center, in a move they say could make organ delivery safer and more affordable.
The drone was custom-built to monitor the organ in the air in real time as it was delivered on April 19 and send updates to personnel handling the transplant, the hospital said in a statement...
ImmuniWeb, a global provider of web, mobile and API security testing and risk ratings, expands its free community offering with a website security test. Initially designed for SMEs and organizations with nascent application security testing programs, large organizations with mature DevSecOps programs can also benefit from the service to quickly run hundreds of daily scans ensuring essential security and...
On April 24, 2019, by a decree of the Presidium of the National Academy of Sciences of Azerbaijan, it was decided to establish nominal awards to encourage scientists who have made a great contribution to the development of science and have important scientific achievements, as well as perpetuating the memory of outstanding Azerbaijani scientists:
Academician Ashraf Huseynov Prize;
Academician Ali Guliyev...
The world’s largest telecommunications equipment maker Huawei Technologies Co. will launch a 5G Open Lab in Seoul next month, its first 5G service development center that will serve as an Asian hub for its 5G business expansion.
According to the IT industry sources on Sunday, the China’s biggest smartphone vendor will open its 5G Open Lab around mid-May in Seoul...
It has been nearly a week since security researcher John Page reported that he had found an Internet Explorer XML eXternal Entity (XXE) vulnerability. A new layer of this vulnerability has been recently discovered and the implications are far more serious. A Microsoft Edge feature may threaten Internet Explorer’s security.
The vulnerability is a XML eXternal Entity or XXE attack....