Iceland has no shortage of natural dangers – volcanic eruptions, glacial floods, scaldingly hot springs and bitterly cold winters. But it is at least one of the few places on Earth where humans don't ...

I do not believe in cheating. Traditionally, the term “ braindump ” referred to someone taking an exam, memorizing the questions, and sharing them online for others to use. That practice is unethical ...

Abstract: Bio-inspired decentralized approaches for transporting objects with robot networks seek to use locally-sensed information such as object–robot interaction forces, without the need for ...

It is Day 28 of the federal government shutdown, with no end in sight. Day 28 also marks a very significant day for air traffic controllers, who are working their first day without pay. Off-duty air ...

On many Linux distributions, the kernel is configured by default to prevent any process from calling ptrace() on another process that it did not create (e.g. via fork()). This is a security feature ...

A recent letter in The Sun criticized Bruce Fellman, the writer of “The Naturalist’s Journal,” for injecting politics into his Sunday columns. My response is, how could he not? Anyone who loves nature ...

I'm using iocraft to build a terminal UI which displays a particular application's UDP output. As part of this, I have a top-level component which is responsible for fetching data from the UDP data ...

With the Digirail project, Finland is taking on a pioneering role in European railway operations. In cooperation with Mipro Oy, Frauscher Sensor Technology supplies EULYNX-compliant object controllers ...

INNOTRANS: Frauscher unveiled its FAdP Point Control at InnoTrans on September 25. The modular control unit is designed to work with a range of point motors and interface with all interlocking ...