Microsoft’s speech recognizer can correctly identify 86 to 88 percent of the words in arbitrary speech, Rashid said. Ever wondered what you’d sound like if you were fluent in Chinese, French or another language you [...]

Future research projects include optimized routing, road hazard reporting, optimized de-icing, beacon for at-risk pedestrians, and vehicle-to-vehicle communication to enhance rear signaling. Someday, your auto and the roadway will be in constant communication and able [...]

What it does blurs the line between the digital and real world A trip on public transport or to the local coffee shop might give the impression that touchscreens are everywhere, but scientists at Autodesk [...]

Small, affordable high-frequency chips will have broad applications in detection technology, TAU researcher says With homeland security on high alert, screening systems to search for concealed weapons are crucial pieces of equipment. But these systems [...]

New gadgets — I mean whole new gadget categories — don’t come along very often. The iPhone was one recent example. You could argue that the iPad was another. But if there’s anything at all [...]

Multi-antenna technology could help keep pace with voracious user demand Researchers from Rice University today unveiled a new multi-antenna technology that could help wireless providers keep pace with the voracious demands of data-hungry smartphones and [...]

Can support wireless speed of 20 Gbps Researchers from A*A*STAR‘s Institute of Microelectronics (IME) have developed the first compact high performance silicon-based cavity-backed slot (CBS) antenna that operates at 135 GHz. The antenna demonstrated 30 [...]

Mobile money would transform even more lives in poor countries if regulators got out of the way IN 2007 Safaricom, the biggest mobile operator in Kenya, launched M-PESA, a service that allows money to be [...]

V2V technology could be deployed on a wide scale before the end of the decade. Hot on the heels of Daimler announcing the largest ever field-test of its car-to-X vehicle communications system in Germany, a similar program being conducted [...]

Could change the way we interact with everyday objects The newspaper-style printing of electronic equipment has led to a cost-effective device that could change the way we interact with everyday objects. For a price of [...]

A skilled hacker has shown how to hijack a smartphone via a short-range radio technology known as Near Field Communication (NFC). Charlie Miller created tools that forced phones to visit websites seeded with attack software. [...]

Using Wi-Fi Direct to connect directly to each other without the need for a wireless hotspot. General Motors is working to expand upon its vehicle-to-infrastructure (V2I) and vehicle-to-vehicle (V2V) communication systems that are being developed to [...]