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Self-propelled vehicles are "trained" to be overly cautious, but there may be situations where they need to make high-speed maneuvers to avoid a collision. Will such vehicles, equipped with tens of thousands of dollars worth of high-tech sensors and programmed to travel at slow speeds, be able to do it in a split second like a human? This question is going to be solved by the experts of Stanford University. They […]
On April 10, the Chinese company OPPO scheduled a presentation of smartphones of the new Reno family: press renders of one of these devices were at the disposal of network sources. As you can see in the images, the device has a completely bezel-less design. Apparently, the screen occupies more than 90% of the area of the front surface of the case. Earlier it was said that the smartphone is endowed with a 6,4-inch AMOLED Full HD + display with […]
The International Data Corporation (IDC) estimates that 656,2 million smart home devices were sold globally last year. The data presented includes shipments of products such as set-top boxes, monitoring and security systems, smart lighting products, smart speakers, thermostats, etc. This year, shipments of smart home devices are expected to increase […]
A study by the International Data Corporation (IDC) suggests that global monitor shipments are declining. In the last quarter of 2018, 31,4 million computer monitors were sold worldwide. This is 2,1% less compared to the fourth quarter of 2017, when the market volume was estimated at 32,1 million units. The largest supplier is Dell with […]
It will find application in hyperscale data centers. / photo Not4rthur CC BY-SA Why the specification was updated Engineers from the Open Compute Project (OCP) introduced the first version of the standard back in 2013. He described the modular and open design of 21-inch wide data center racks. This approach has increased the effective use of rack space to 87,5%. For comparison, […]
We tell and show what students do in ITMO University's fab lab. We invite everyone who is interested in the topic of DIY as part of student initiatives under cat. How the fab lab appeared ITMO University's fab lab is a small workshop in which students and teachers of our university can independently create various details for scientific research or experiments. The idea to create a workshop was submitted by Aleksey Shchekoldin […]
ITMO University hosts many laboratories in various areas: from bionics to optics of quantum nanostructures. Today we will show you what our laboratory of cyber-physical systems looks like and tell you more about its projects. Brief information The Laboratory of Cyber-Physical Systems is a specialized platform for conducting research activities in the field of cyberphysics. Cyber-physical systems imply the integration of computing resources in the physical. processes. […]
A laboratory of robotics has been opened at ITMO University on the basis of the Department of Control Systems and Informatics (CS&I). We will talk about the projects that are being worked on within its walls and show the tools: industrial robotic manipulators, robotic grippers, as well as an installation for testing dynamic positioning systems using a robotic model of a surface vessel. The Robotics Laboratory is one of the oldest departments at ITMO […]
Mozilla specialists presented the WASI (WebAssembly System Interface) project, which involves the development of an API for creating ordinary applications that run outside the browser. At the same time, we are initially talking about cross-platform and a high level of security for such applications. As noted, they run in a special "sandbox" and have access to files, the file system, network sockets, timers, and so on. Wherein […]
A group of researchers from the Paul Scherrer Institute (Villigen, Switzerland) and ETH Zurich have investigated and confirmed the operation of an interesting phenomenon of magnetism at the atomic level. The atypical behavior of magnets at the level of nanometer clusters was predicted 60 years ago by the Soviet and American physicist Igor Ekhielevich Dzyaloshinskii. Researchers from Switzerland were able to create such structures and are now predicting a bright […]
In the US, subscriber authentication technology is gaining momentum - the SHAKEN / STIR protocol. Let's talk about the principles of its operation and potential implementation difficulties. / Flickr / Mark Fischer / CC BY-SA Call Problem Unsolicited robo calls are the most common source of consumer complaints to the US Federal Trade Commission. In 2016, the organization recorded five million hits, a year later […]
Backup is not one of the trendy technologies that are shouted about from every iron. It just has to be in any serious company, that's all. We back up several thousand servers in our bank - this is a complex, interesting job, some of the subtleties of which, as well as typical misconceptions about backups, just want to be told. This topic […]