Fujitsu Labs reckons its voice recognition technology can determine whether someone is happy or sad. Using a method that takes into account the average pitch of the voice, the degree of variation and the characteristic changes at relative points within voice data that covers multiple words – namely at the start or end of speech …

Read full article: The Cheerfulness Detector

Researchers from MIT and Harvard Medical School have developed a bio-compatible stretchable optical fibre, which might one day deliver therapeutic light within the body or sense disease said the team. A particular use of the fibre, which is made of bio-polymer hydrogel, could be within jelly-like brain tissue. To keep light in the fibre, the core must …

Read full article: Stretchy floppy optical fibre could sense strain inside living tissue

Comparative life-cycle studies of lead zirconate titanate (PZN) piezoelectric and its ‘green’ replacement potassium sodium niobate (KNN) suggest KNN is worse for the environment, according to the University of Sheffield. Professors Ian Reaney and Lenny Koh undertook the comparative analysis as part of an EPSRC project. The issue is not post-use land-filling, but pre-installation, as mining the …

Read full article: ‘Green’ piezo replacement could be worse for the environment

Inventions generated by artificial intelligence are rising without the legal framework to manage the issue of patents, according to law professor Ryan Abbott at the University of Surrey.

Read full article: Law needs to credit inventive computers in patents

Thanks to Digitimes Research for this one – the top ten Chinese smartphone vendors in Q2: Huawei 18.8% Oppo 11.5%, Vivo 9%, Xiaomi Technology 9%, TCL 5.3%, ZTE 5.3%, Lenovo 4.7%, GiONEE 4.5%, Meizu 2.5% Coolpad 2.1%.

Read full article: Top Ten Q2 Chinese Smartphone Vendors

Automotive LED headlamps have proven to deliver new capabilities such as steering the projected light beam based on the road contour and oncoming traffic, but a new Osram design ups the ante with 1024 individually controllable emitters.

Today we are announcing two new features for Amazon Aurora, AWS Lambda Integration and Direct Data Load into Aurora Database Tables from Amazon S3.

You can now record configuration changes to your S3 buckets with AWS Config. The detailed bucket configuration recorded by AWS Config includes the bucket policy, Access Control List (ACL), lifecycle configuration, Cross-Origin Resource Sharing (CORS) configuration and more. Review our documentation to get a full list of bucket attributes recorded by AWS Config. AWS Config provides a complete history of configuration changes for your bucket. With AWS Config, you can dive deep into how your bucket was configured at any point in time. For example, you can use the configuration history provided by AWS Config to determine how your bucket’s policy or ACL changed over time. 

Healthy and accessible urban waters can enhance economic, educational, recreational, and social opportunities in surrounding communities.

CH2M operates the city’s wastewater treatment facility in addition to maintaining and operating the city’s lift stations and eight township autosamplers.