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A team of researchers at Tsinghua University in China have created a liquid metal material that is so light, it can float on water. The researchers are hoping the extremely light material could be used to construct lightweight exoskeletons and shape-shifting...

The digitalization of purchasing is still in its infancy in many companies. A few basic steps will help to master the seemingly Herculean task. Market inquiries with suppliers can be made automatically and orders can be placed afterward. Artificial Intelligence...

QUANTUM COMPUTING DISRUPTION STARTING IN 2022? font size    Print    Quantum computers are still science fiction. But quantum computing power as a service from the cloud could be available as early as 2022. Read how you should prepare your business...

The end of Windows 7 support has hit health care extra hard, leaving several machines vulnerable. You’d think that mammography machines, radiology systems, and ultrasounds would maintain the strictest possible security hygiene. But new research shows that a whopping 83...

Nils Urbach, Professor for Business Informatics and Strategic IT Management at the University of Bayreuth, Peter Hofmann, University of Bayreuth and Dominik Protschky, University of Bayreuth bet that in five years’ time, anchoring in the company will be one of...

Researchers at ETH Zurich and the Inselspital Bern have developed a method that can predict the circulatory failure of patients in intensive care units with high reliability. Medical staff can thus intervene earlier. The approach is based on the evaluation...

Telefónica, MediaPro, and Barcelona’s metropolitan transport agency TMB have teamed up to use 5G and augmented reality in a practical way for tourism, equipping a bus with a translucent display that can highlight key places as they appear in real...

The World Health Organization just declared a global pandemic. A pandemic is an epidemic (a sudden increase in the number of cases of a disease) that’s spread over several countries or continents. COVID-19 is now on every continent (except Antarctica)...

A team of Australian engineers is looking in an unusual place for the future of energy storage: uneaten fruit High Calorie One of the major challenges in converting a fossil fuel-dependent energy infrastructure into something clean and sustainable is finding...

DeepMind, Google’s AI unit, just published predictions of the protein structures associated with the coronavirus that causes the disease known as COVID-19.  DeepMind, Google’s AI unit, is joining the global effort learn more about COVID-19, as the disease’s toll spreads...