Your smoke alarm can actually cause a fire if you do this one simple thing

Throwing smoke detectors away in household trash or recycling poses its own fire hazard, according to the Department of Fire ...
CNET

We Know Why Your Smoke Alarm Goes Off at Night and How to Fix It

However, as smoke alarm companies discovered, temperature plays a big role in how batteries perform. Hotter temps create less electrical resistance and amp up battery activity, while colder temps do ...
CNET

Know Your Smoke Alarm: Here's What the Different Lights and Sounds Mean

No one tells you what those different beeps or on-off lights on your smoke detector mean. Here's what you need to know.
IEEE

Detecting terahertz waves with glow discharge detectors by electrical and optical methods

Abstract: A glow discharge detector (GDD) was found to be an effective room temperature terahertz (THz) radiation detector. Based on the phenomenon that the incident THz radiation can increases the ...
The Courier-Mail

Report raises concerns some operators are cutting corners on checks of smoke alarms and gas and electrical appliances

A report by the McKell Institute found that with little oversight or transparency, some practitioners were snubbing state laws aimed to protect tenants. Victorian rental providers are legally required ...
Penn Live

Central Pa. house where 4 people died in fire had working smoke detectors

A Lebanon home that caught fire over the weekend and quickly became engulfed with 10 people inside had working smoke detectors, investigators said. Four people were killed in the Sunday morning blaze ...
IEEE

Hand-drawn Electric Circuit Diagrams Recognition using Deep Learning

Abstract: This paper tackles component identification in hand-drawn electrical circuit diagrams by employing Region-based Convolutional Neural Networks (R-CNN). This paper introduces a new offline ...