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Amazon Go Brings Checkout-Free Supermarket To Public
Amazon Go relies on sensors, cameras and artificial intelligence to tell when customers are taking items from shelves, eliminating checkout queues
Smartphones ‘Can Be Unlocked’ Using Covert Sensor Data
Singapore researchers used sensor information freely available to any mobile app to unlock Android phones in only three tries
Hackers Can ‘Crack’ Your PIN By Exploiting Smartphone...
By monitoring sensor data, criminals web pages and malicious apps could potentially guess PINs to a surprising degree of accuracy
Cancer Research Smart Benches Offer Londoners Solar Power Charging And...
The smart benches come with contactless payment tech to enable people to make small on-the-fly donations
Amazon Go Physical Store Shuns Tills For AI, Data And IoT Powered...
Embracing the Internet of Things, Amazon is mixing up the traditional format of physical shopping
Ditch Traffic Lights In Favour Of Connected Cars, Say Researchers
MIT researchers claim communicating vehicles would ease through intersections far more efficiently
Toshiba To Sell Sensor Business In Wake Of Accounting Scandal
Toshiba Corp offloading camera sensor business to Sony as new boss tries to overhaul semiconductor division
Forget The Fridges. How Is IoT Saving Humanity?
Nader Alaghband, CEO of Ampersand Mobile, says there are much cooler IoT technologies than fridges
MIT Develops Solar-Powered Sensor To Keep IoT Data Flowing
Researchers invent solar-powered sensors to harness Internet of Things potential
Cincinnati Airport Security Searches Your Smartphone Data To Trim...
Airport management have installed a sensor solution and analysis platform to improve passenger satisfaction and optimise operations
Smart City Search Engine Uses Sensors
University of Glasgow search engine project will use social media and sensors to take the pulse of a city
Sensors Will Play A Big Part In Microsoft’s Windows 8 Tablet...
Windows 8 on tablets will use hardware sensors in a number of ways, perhaps none more important than for app enhancement
Scavenging Free Green Power From Radio Waves
Radio wave propagation may be a form of pollution but it could be a source of free, ubiquitous energy
Will White Space Radio Be Green?
Smart Grids won't happen without cheap ubiquitous networking. White space technologies could deliver that, says Peter Judge
Comms Gets Personal With Body Networks
The IT Crowd gets a new definition as researchers in Belfast envisage people as 4G transmitters
IBM Summit: World Is Ready For Smart Grids
The UK is facing a looming energy crisis - but smart meters can help - according to the government's Minister for Energy and Climate Change
HP: Sensors May Prevent Repeat Of BP Oil Disaster
HP envisions a future with trillions of sensors around the world helping to prevent man-made and natural disasters