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Sunday, May 6, 2012

ScienceDaily: Top Technology News

ScienceDaily: Top Technology News


Can minor vibrations replaces batteries in power sensors, radio transmitters and GPS modules?

Posted: 04 May 2012 10:59 AM PDT

Sensors, radio transmitters and GPS modules all feature low power consumption. All it takes is a few milliwatts to run them. Energy from the environment -- from sources such as light or vibrations -- may be enough to meet these requirements. A new measurement device can determine whether or not the energy potential is high enough.

'Game-powered machine learning' opens door to Google for music

Posted: 04 May 2012 10:59 AM PDT

Engineers have shown that a computer can be taught to automatically label every song on the Internet using sets of examples provided by unpaid music fans. The researchers report that their solution, "game-powered machine learning," would enable music lovers to search every song on the web.

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