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Supervisors in San Francisco voted Tuesday to give city police the ability to use potentially lethal, remote-controlled robots in emergency situations—following an emotionally charged debate that reflected divisions on the politically liberal board over support for law enforcement.... Read more

Testing time perception in an unusually lifelike setting—a virtual reality ride on a New York City subway train—an interdisciplinary Cornell research team found that crowding makes time seem to pass more slowly.... Read more

The introduction of VAR at the last World Cup proved one thing for sure: It's nigh impossible to remove controversy from soccer even at the highest level.... Read more

Industries must embrace 3D modeling with fully immersive virtual simulations in their occupational safety management systems. According to a new study from the University of Vaasa, Finland, this will help them to optimize accident prevention.... Read more

Thousands of electric bikes are being recalled over concerns their lithium-ion batteries can explode and burn consumers, the U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission announced Thursday.... Read more

Virtual cars whizz by with engines roaring, as 26 drivers vie for the top spot at an online tournament in Jordan—many dreaming one day of transitioning to real racers.... Read more

With autocorrect and auto-generated email responses, algorithms offer plenty of assistance to help people express themselves.... Read more

Bill Gates says the global hunger crisis is so immense that food aid cannot fully address the problem. What's also needed, Gates argues, are the kinds of innovations in farming technology that he has long funded to try to reverse the crisis documented in a report released Tuesday by The... Read more

Amid months of mass flight cancellations and delays, the Department of Transportation has launched a customer service dashboard to help vacationers ahead of the travel-heavy Labor Day weekend.... Read more

Under a blazing sun in Mali's capital, Amadou Menta leant over to measure a gutter then jotted down the results on a mapping app on his smartphone.... Read more

While virtual reality has been around for decades, a combination of higher-resolution graphics, smoother tracking of the user's movements and cheaper, sleeker headsets has propelled the immersive technology into arenas beyond gaming and military training.... Read more

Real-world research has shown, for the first time, that the theory of effective crew resource management makes an "invaluable contribution" to the safety and efficiency of police air support in England and Wales.... Read more

A world-first report from Dr. Allan McCay scrutinizes advances in neurotechnology and what it might mean for the law and the legal profession. The paper calls for urgent consideration of how the new technology is to be regulated.... Read more

Researchers Aaron Golub, John MacArthur and Sangwan Lee of Portland State University, Anne Brown of the University of Oregon, and Candace Brakewood and Abubakr Ziedan of the University of Tennessee, Knoxville have published a new journal article in the September 2022 volume of Transportation Research: Interdisciplinary Perspectives.... Read more

Societies may tremble when a hot new video game is released, but the hours spent playing popular video games do not appear to be damaging players' mental health, according to the largest-ever survey of nearly 40,000 gamers and their gaming habits, which was conducted over six weeks by a team... Read more