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America's National Highway Traffic Safety Administration "said on Tuesday that it will rewrite its vehicle lighting standards," reports Reuters, "to address concerns about headlight glare and allow for the latest safety-improving lighting technologies." NHTSA said it plans to improve rules for LEDs, dusk sensors, automatic high beams and replaceable light sources. The agency will also evaluate headlamp height and aim and how they impact driver visibility and address headlight glare and make appropriate changes. Complaints about glare from headlights have increased and some lawmakers have urged the government to set a maximum headlight brightness standard. A growing number of taller trucks and SUVs on roads has also led to more complaints about glare. LEDs, which now account for most headlights in new cars, are much brighter than traditional halogen headlights... The issue still accounts for a small number of nighttime crashes, according to a study last year from the Insurance Institute for Highway Safety (IIHS). The study noted that headlight glare contributes to far fewer crashes than insufficient visibility... Federal headlight standards for minimum and maximum brightness have not changed since 1997, IIHS noted. The study found that drivers older than 70 appear to be most affected by headlight glare. In 2022, NHTSA said it would allow automakers to install adaptive driving beam headlights on new vehicles. The devices adjust the headlight beam pattern to dim portions directed at other vehicles. Thanks to Slashdot reader technology_dude for sharing the news.

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食事中でも布団の中でもスマートフォンを触り続けてしまうという人は多いはず。iPhoneはApple公式システムの「Apple Configurator」を使うことでインストールするアプリを制限してSNSや動画アプリの使いすぎを防ぐことができます。

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Samsungが本体を横折りで折りたためるスマートフォン「Galaxy Z Fold8 Ultra」「Galaxy Z Fold8」と、縦折りで折りたためるスマートフォン「Galaxy Z Flip8」を2026年8月にリリースしました。Foldは8世代目、Flipは7世代目で、それぞれ歴代最薄ボディに進化を遂げているということなので、どんな端末なのかを借りて確かめてみました。

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話題のマルチツール端末Flipper Zeroの新モデル「Flipper One」の開発が進行中。Linux搭載でRaspberry Pi 5を超える性能やスペック、発売予定について解説します。

登場から40年以上を経て今でもなお人気のテトリス。いわゆる落ちものゲームの元祖で、非常にシンプルなパズルですが、そのシンプルさがクセになります。ミラノ発のファッションウォッチブランド「D1 Milano」が、テトリスとコラボ。テトリスのブロ…

こんなのあったらいいなをすべて形にしてくれるサンコー。冬用ガジェットとして、すでに暖かい系アイテムが登場していますが、商品名を聞くだけであったかくなるアイテムがあります。その名も「おなかぽかぽかポッケ」。ポケットの中って冬は指先の避難場所で…

Googleの新しいAIゲームプラットフォーム「Playground」で、チャット形式で簡単にゲーム開発や共有が楽しめる魅力を紹介します。

"What did four astronauts see, notice, and document as they traveled around the Moon during NASA's Artemis II mission?" asks a new NASA web page, offering some fascinating pictures and video: Through photographs, spoken observations, drawings, and annotations, the Artemis II crew created a unique scientific record — one that is now available to the science community and the public for further study... As part of the mission science plan, lunar scientists asked the Artemis II crew to watch for tiny flashes sparked by rocky fragments hitting the Moon. Even so, some scientists were astonished when astronauts reported seeing five extremely faint "pinprick" bursts of light from 46,000 miles away. After ruling out other sources — cosmic rays or reflections from the spacecraft — the science team confirmed the sightings... The impact flash observations happened during a planned loss of communications while the Artemis II crew was on the far side of the Moon... Apollo astronauts saw similar flashes from lunar orbit, but the Artemis crew likely caught the faintest ever seen with the unaided eye. From the brightness of the flashes, scientists estimated that incoming rocks were each no more than a couple of inches wide. Despite their size, they were traveling thousands of miles per hour, producing just enough light upon impact to be visible. The nearly hour-long total solar eclipse that the crew experienced while passing by the Moon's far side created ideal dark conditions for spotting such subtle bursts. With no atmosphere to slow or burn up incoming debris, projectiles slam freely into the lunar surface. The crew's direct observations of this process on the Moon's far side provided a rare dataset that will help us understand how often these small impacts occur, which is essential for assessing long-term risks to future lunar habitats and infrastructure... The crew reported seeing subtle hues of gray, black, brown, tan, white, green, and blue across the Moon's surface. This muted rainbow offers clues to the rocks and minerals that make up different lunar regions, helping scientists piece together how the Moon — and, by extension, Earth — evolved over time. "Amazing news," Mission Control responded when they heard about the flashes. Space.com reports that when a Mission Control operator looked over at the Science Evaluation Room, "they were jumping up and down, literally." NASA blogged this week that more than 800 gigabytes of Artemis II lunar science data — some previously unreleased — "have been uploaded to NASA's Planetary Data System, the public archive for NASA's planetary missions." This data release includes more than 11,000 full-resolution images and video of the Moon from the crew's handheld cameras and the Orion spacecraft's cameras, 8.5 hours of audio recordings of the crew's scientific observations of the lunar surface, and crew-annotated images... Along with this data, NASA has released the Artemis II Preliminary Lunar Science Report, the Artemis II Lunar Science Operations Report, and the Artemis II Lunar Science Data User Guide.

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近年は特に先進国における出生率低下が著しく、多くの国では合計特殊出生率が人口を維持するのに必要な「2.1」を下回っています。そんな中、フィンランドのヘルシンキ大学が主導した研究では、「出産した回数」が母親の寿命に影響を与える可能性があることがわかりました。

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パソコンの熱を冷却に利用する画期的な新技術を解説。形状記憶合金の膜を使った驚きの逆転発想で、未来のエコな冷却システムを紹介します。

ベンキュージャパンは、「Amazon プライム感謝祭」と先行セールに注目のディスプレイやプロジェクターを出品予定だ。