Fairfax County voters will have a new option for casting their ballots Nov. 4, and it will look a lot like a high school math test. Fairfax officials have bought about 240 optical scanner machines, ...

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WILLMAR -- A few minor mechanical glitches were reported Tuesday as Kandiyohi County gave the new optical scan vote counters and voter-assistive machines their first workout. Despite a few harried ...

Escalating pollution and contamination of water and soil are emerging as serious threats to plant growth and its overall ...

Car accidents are responsible for approximately a million deaths each year globally. Among the many causes, driving at night, when vision is most limited, leads to accidents with higher mortality ...

From Disney World to the smartphone in your pocket, fingerprint scanners have become commonplace these days. Even budget phones sport the tech, sometimes alongside other biometric unlocking options ...

The newest wonder of the electronic age is a machine that can read and digest and retain what it reads—even if it takes no special pleasure in curling up with a good book. Known in industry as the ...

ORLANDO, Fla. — When Democratic candidate Al Gore challenged the results of the 2000 presidential election in Florida, attention focused on the state’s problem-plagued punch-card ballots with their ...

May 20, 2014 (Newswise). Scientists have advanced a brain-scanning technology that tracks what the brain is doing by shining dozens of tiny LED lights on the head. This new generation of neuroimaging ...

Researchers have come up with an alternative to conventional adaptive driving beam systems: a microelectromechanical systems (MEMS) optical scanner that relies on the piezoelectric effect of ...