Superconducting nanowires have been used for decades as detectors for photons, neutrons, and other energetic particles. When a particle interacts with the nanowire, it creates a hotspot, briefly ...

An ear-splitting smoke alarm siren is one of the worst midnight surprises. But it's even worse when your detector keeps beeping in the middle of the night but then stops and acts perfectly normal ...

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The risk of fires in both indoor and outdoor scenarios is constantly rising around the world. The primary goal of a fire detection system is to minimize financial losses and human casualties by ...

A couple of years ago, a curious, then-16-year-old hacker named Reynaldo Vasquez-Garcia was on his laptop at his Portland-area high school, seeing what computer systems he could connect to via the ...

Taylor worked with AP from 2018 to 2025, most recently as Google Editor. Google officially stopped producing the Nest Protect connected smoke detector in March. Existing units will continue to ...

Posts from this topic will be added to your daily email digest and your homepage feed. Place’s new line of smart alarms incorporates many of the best features of Google’s discontinued Protect, adding ...

Audio frequency detection is the process of identifying the pitch or dominant frequency of a sound signal. Three common methods used are Fast Fourier Transform (FFT), AutoCorrelation, and ...

ORNL research led to the development of a Smart Smoke Alarm that uses sophisticated algorithms to more accurately identify fires faster. A decade ago, smoke detectors frequently produced false alarms ...