New Orleans’ mayor defended his city days after a power outage plunged the Super Bowl into 34 minutes of darkness, while authorities still baffled by the cause announced they were bringing in a consultant to help investigate. The outage that embarrassed New Orleans as it sought to showcase its rebound from the devastation of Hurricane […]
Artificial intelligence
Aussie Court Clears Google in Deceptive Ad Case
Australia’s highest court has thrown out a ruling against Google that had found the Internet giant guilty of breaching trade law by hosting deceptive advertisements. The High Court’s decision on Wednesday overturned a federal court ruling from April that Google had engaged in misleading or deceptive conduct with four ads that appeared on its Google […]
InduSoft Releases SCADA Visualization App for Windows 8
The world’s first SCADA/HMI app designed specifically for Windows 8 and Windows RT brings remote access benefits with seamless implementation. Austin, TX – January 31, 2013 – InduSoft released the InduSoft Visualization App for Windows 8 and Windows RT, Microsoft’s highly-anticipated new version of its Windows operating system. The app is now available at The […]
Improved ‘Peacock’ Tech Locks in Color for High-Res Displays
Iridescence, or sheen that shifts color depending on your viewing angle, is pretty in peacock feathers. But it’s been a nuisance for engineers trying to mimic the birds’ unique color mechanism to make high-resolution, reflective, color display screens. Now, researchers at the University of Michigan have found a way to lock in so-called structural color, […]
A New Kind of Job Market
Plenty of people need jobs with very flexible hours — but it’s difficult for those people to connect with the employers who need them. Wingham Rowan is working on that. He explains how the same technology that powers modern financial markets can help employers book workers for slivers of time.
Dell in $24.4B Founder-Led Deal to Go Private
Slumping personal computer maker Dell is bowing out of the stock market in a $24.4 billion buyout that represents the largest deal of its kind since the Great Recession dried up the financing for such risky maneuvers. The complex agreement announced Tuesday will allow Dell’s management to attempt a company turnaround away from the […]
Superdome Engineering Staff Worried About a Power Outage
NEW ORLEANS (AP) — Superdome officials warned just months before the Super Bowl that the venue’s electrical system could suffer a power outage and rushed to replace some of the equipment ahead of the big game While the cause of Sunday’s 34-minute outage is still under investigation, records released Monday show that Superdome officials were […]
Focusing on Strategic R&D
Recently, Green Plug named longtime executive Kevin Jones to the newly-created position of Chief Scientist and appointed semiconductor industry veteran Rajeev Prasad to succeed Jones as VP of Engineering. The announcement followed Green Plug’s Series C investment round, from U.K.-based strategic investor Imagination Technologies Group and others. PD&D had the opportunity to speak with both […]
Kickstarter of the Week: RoBo 3D Printer
Today is the final day of funding for the RoBo 3D Printer on Kickstarter.com. RoBo is the latest low-cost, open source printer to be received with great fanfare on the crowd sourcing site, retaining the support of 1,100 backers and raising more than $590,000, blowing away the upstart’s $49,000 goal. The RoBo 3D printer is […]
NTU Research Embraces Laser and Sparks Cool Affair
Bulky and noisy air-conditioning compressors and refrigerators may soon be a thing of the past. With the latest discovery by scientists from Nanyang Technological University (NTU), current cooling systems which uses refrigerant harmful to the ozone layer could be replaced by a revolutionary cooling system using lasers. This discovery, published and featured on the cover […]