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ABC News
Imagine a window that could instantly turn into a mirror — the possibility is real, thanks to a breakthrough in nanotechnology by researchers at the Australian National University (ANU). They have developed a material that promises to protect astronauts from harmful radiation, as well as practical uses closer to home. ANU researchers have dubbed their invention a "smart mirror," and all that is needed for it to change is an adjustment to its temperature.
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MIT Technology Review
The Swedish automaker Volvo has announced that starting in 2019, every car it sells will have an electric motor. It's the first large car manufacturer to make such a grand and public commitment to transitioning away from selling vehicles that run exclusively on gas. "Volvo Cars has stated that it plans to have sold a total of one million electrified cars by 2025," says Volvo's chief executive, Hakan Samuelsson, according to the Financial Times. "This is how we are going to do it."
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Financial Post
Vik Singh's company has powerful artificial intelligence software that helps firms hunt down the best sales leads. Getting somebody to use it — well, that's a story that says a lot about the U.S. expansion. U.S. businesses have every incentive to adopt labour-saving technologies, replacing factory workers with robots and desk jobs with smart software. In some areas, such as finance, machine decision-making is advancing quickly. In some areas, such as finance, machine decision-making is advancing quickly. In others, there are obstacles. Overall, while the penetration of automation in the economy is happening, it is taking place at a slower pace than futurists expected.
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USA Today
It's a well-proven fact in the tech world that timing is everything. You may have the greatest widget, software, or digital experience the world has ever seen, but if the market isn't ready to accept it, that product or service won't succeed. At the midpoint of 2017, we're about to enter an era of technology developments in which some of the most interesting innovations aren't likely to be as visible as many of our high-tech gadgets and friendly apps have been. The real magic of many of these new tech advances will be nearly invisible.
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Phys.Org
Chemists at Nagoya Institute of Technology have developed an innovative chemical reaction system, which could have applications for developing starter molecules for additional synthetic procedures in organic chemistry, as well as pharmaceutical candidates with a potentially wide range of biological activities.
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Durham Region
It's encouraging to see the region's institutions of higher learning — in this case, Durham College — rolling with changes to skill sets and thinking outside of the box where post-secondary education is concerned. Durham College recently announced plans to offer its first-ever degree program at the Oshawa-based institution next fall. The college will roll our its four-year bachelor of health care technology management program — the first of its kind in Canada.
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Tech Crunch
According to freshly-minted rumours posted by Bloomberg, Apple is looking to do away with the iPhone's tried-and-true fingerprint reader altogether, in favour of face-unlocking technology. The move would make a major shift away from Touch ID, a mainstay in Apple phones since the introduction of the 5S, back in late-2013. The combination Touch ID/home button has been the source of a lot of speculation leading up to the iPhone 8's release later this year.
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CBC News
A robot wheels across a rocky, windswept landscape that looks like the surface of some distant planet from a science fiction film. But it is not in outer space, it's on the slopes of Europe's most active volcano. Mount Etna, in Sicily, is a test bed for the approximately one-metre high, four-wheeled machine ahead of a future mission to the moon. It is being conducted by the German Aerospace Centre, the agency which runs Germany's space programme.
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Canadian Biomass
The detailed design and engineering of wastewater treatment plants is full of obstacles. Any mistakes made during the implementation can hardly be remedied. What is the reason? Worldwide, the MBBR as well as the IFAS technology are increasingly being applied for biological water treatment. Numerous qualified and well-skilled procedural biotechnologists with technical know-how are available for the engineering of suchlike plants. However, it is not quite unusual that inexperienced plant construction companies as well as plastic manufacturers without any process-technological knowledge try to implement, or rather said to copy this technology based on collected information.
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Medical News Today
It is the double-edged sword of the modern era: the mobile technology available to health-care providers today can help them to swiftly slash through many of their daily tasks, from documentation to direct patient care. For that reason, smartphones now go hand in hand with stethoscopes. But those same devices can also be a source of incessant demands, beeping and buzzing with every update.
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