Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... When Denver resident Doug Kacena was a freshman at the University of Colorado Boulder in 1994, his older sister, Melissa, asked for a favor. “I needed a ...

In the first post introducing the patch-it principle, I made the claim that developers use software patches to add new behaviors to their systems in response to new information and changes in the ...

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Researchers at Katholieke Universiteit Leuven have demonstrated how a small, square, printed patch can be used as “cloaking device” to hide people from AI object detectors. In recent years, ...

Why patch-based wearable devices for medical monitoring are gaining more research attention. How these devices are fabricated to achieve specific objectives. How some wearable devices implement ...

Purdue University researchers have created a drug delivery method using silicon nanoneedles with diameters 100 times smaller than a mosquito’s needle. These nanoneedles are embedded in a stretchable ...

The software patch is a much maligned technique for keeping systems robust because many users perceive that the majority of these patches as merely fixes of feature bugs that the developers should ...