Category: New Technology

As the 20-year anniversary of the Beltway Sniper shooting rampage nears, the man who headed the investigation at the federal Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives says new technology would have likely stopped the shooting sooner.

During a three-week period in October 2002, John Allen Muhammad and Lee Boyd Malvo shot and killed 10 people, and wounded three others in Maryland, Virginia and DC

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At the time, Michael Bouchard was ATF’s special agent in charge during the sniper investigation, as the head of the agency’s Baltimore field office. Bouchard appeared often during news conferences with then-Montgomery County Police Chief Charles Moose and Gary Bald, the agent who headed the FBI’s task force efforts.

As the world builds out ever larger installations of wind and solar power systems, the need is growing fast for economical, large-scale backup systems to provide power when the sun is down and the air is calm. Today’s lithium-ion batteries are still too expensive for most such applications, and other options such as pumped hydro require specific topography that’s not always available.

Now, researchers at MIT and elsewhere have developed a new kind of battery, made entirely from abundant and inexpensive materials, that could help to fill that gap.

The new battery architecture, which uses aluminum and sulfur as its two electrode materials, with a molten salt electrolyte in between, is described today in the journal naturein a paper by MIT Professor Donald Sadoway, along with 15 others at MIT and in China, Canada, Kentucky, and Tennessee.

“I wanted to invent something that was better, much better, than lithium-ion

Augmented FinOps automates traditional DevOps concepts of agility, continuous integration and deployment, and end-user feedback to financial governance, budgeting and cost optimization efforts through the application of AI and machine learning (ML) practices.

Cloud sustainability is the use of cloud services to achieve sustainability benefits within economic, environmental and social systems.

Computational storage (CS) offloads host processing from the main memory of the central processing unit (CPU) to the storage device.

Cybersecurity mesh architecture (CSMA) is an emerging approach for architecting composable, distributed security controls that improve overall security effectiveness.

Observability data is the ability to understand the health of an organization’s data landscape, data pipelines and data infrastructure by continuously monitoring, tracking, alerting, analyzing and troubleshooting incidents.

Dynamic risk governance (DRG) is a new approach to the critical task of defining the roles and responsibilities for risk management. DRG

Depending on your tolerance for pain, getting a tattoo can be an uncomfortable experience, but new technology developed by scientists at the Georgia Institute of Technology could be about to change that.

A team led by chemical engineer Mark Prausnitz has created a low-cost skin patch containing microscopic needles smaller than a grain of sand. Each of the so-called “microneedles” acts like a pixel and can be arranged in different patterns. Each one is then filled with ink before being pressed onto the skin a single time to transfer the design, with no pain or bleeding involved. The process can even be self-administered.

While the patch could clearly present a welcome breakthrough for folks keen on getting a cosmetic tattoo but who are currently put off by the pain, the team actually began its research with another group in mind: medical patients.

“We’ve miniaturized the needle so that it’s painless,

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Longer range, faster charging, less range degradation and a lower sticker price: That’s all that new battery technologies are to bring to electric cars. And while, on a practical basis, I remain more enthused about charging developments like GM’s recent expansion with Pilot and EVgo or Tesla Superchargers embracing the worldhere are some new battery technologies that are strong rivals for my enthusiasm.

Lithium ion is far from done

Please Nanotechnologies is replacing the graphite anode that forms a lot of the bulk and about 15% of the weight of today’s lithium-ion batteries with a form of silicon that it claims will give battery cells a 20 to 40% increase in energy density while

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REVEALED: Real Madrid are using futuristic technology to perfect their free-kicks with coaches able to make a mannequin wall jump and adjust their size based on opponents for Luka Modric and Co to practice

• Real Madrid released footage of new technology used to practice free-kicks
• The club’s futuristic technology allows the size of mannequins to be adjusted
• They can also be controlled to jump, creating a situation like in a real game
• The footage shows Toni Kroos, Luka Modric and other stars taking free-kicks

By Will Pickworth For Mailonline

Published: 07:55 EDT, 31 August 2022 | Updated: 07:55 EDT, 31 August 2022

The New Jersey Department of Transportation has launched a new project along a section of Route 129 in Trenton that will include the use of a first-in-the-nation system to regulate traffic lights to improve pedestrian safety.

Plans call for a number of improvements to be made at three signalized intersections on Route 129 at Lalor Street, Cass Street and Hamilton Avenue, an area where a dozen pedestrians have been killed and many more injured since 2000.

According to DOT Commissioner Diane Gutierrez-Scaccetti, a Red Clearance Traffic Signal Extension system is being implemented that will detect vehicles approaching a pedestrian crossing.

“Basically, we let the red light stay a little longer, hopefully to allow pedestrians additional time to get across the street,” she said.

Smart predictive technology

Gutierrez-Scaccetti explained this smart, predictive technology detects the speed of a vehicle approaching an intersection and automatically adjusts traffic signal changes.

“That means instead