You know that Galaxy S8 or S9 that's been sitting in your junk drawer for the past two years? The one you keep forgetting to trade in for credit toward shiny new toys like the Samsung Galaxy Z Flip 7?

This is a library for the Arduino IDE that helps interface with ST's VL53L4CD time-of-flight distance sensor. The library makes it simple to configure the sensor and read range data from it via I²C.

While walking along a main street one brutally hot afternoon, I decided to turn onto a side street, hoping to find some shade. I was the only person walking. A small children’s playground nearby was ...

Researchers deserve a round of applause for uncovering the science behind the acoustics produced from hand clapping that had not been clearly understood until recently. The daily gesture that people ...

At the peak of summer, wedding season is in high gear. In tough economic times, many newlyweds-to-be are searching for ways to tie the knot on a budget. Elopement is on the rise among Canadian couples ...

Samsung on Thursday (August 7, 2025) launched its 2025 soundbar lineup including the HW-Q990F and the convertible HW-QS700F models with features like AI sound optimisation, dynamic bass control, ...

Abstract: We aim for an open-vocabulary sound event localization and detection (SELD) system that detects and localizes sound events in any category described by prompt texts. An open-vocabulary SELD ...

To Scandinavia’s Sami people, the Northern Lights inspire fear and respect. Children should never tease the lights, elders have said, lest the aurora swoop down and carry them into the skies. Inuit ...

In a pivotal scene from the 2006 film X-Men: The Last Stand, a mutant claps his hands and blasts a shockwave across a battlefield. In a theater somewhere, Sunny Jung watched—and wondered. “It made me ...

Nearly every culture claps. We clap to express joy, encourage performers, or show unity. But a new study reveals something deeper: clapping is not just social, it’s a scientific event with unique ...

ITHACA, N.Y. — Every time you applaud at a concert or celebrate a touchdown, your hands are performing a feat of physics that scientists have puzzled over for decades. Cornell University researchers ...