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Portland State barometer reaches for the sky, and the record books Discarded glass pipes, off-the-shelf trusses and a vision propelled PSU instrument tech Tom Bennett to build a 40+foot barometer in ...

Startup Barometer wants to help advertisers identify brand-safety issues in podcast shows. Its technology tracks what is said in more than 10,000 shows. Barometer is looking to potentially also launch ...

Barometers are devices that measure atmospheric pressure (also known as “air pressure” or “barometric pressure”). You can use these readings to predict the weather. For instance, high pressure ...

For many in the tech arena, the iPhone has been, and likely always will be, the gold standard for handheld mobile devices. The smartphones were the very definition of "game changer" when they debuted ...

Claim: A physics professor gives a final examination that requires his students to explain how to measure the height of a tall building using a barometer. Instead of the expected answer (i.e., measure ...

I've had several inquiries with respect to how watching a barometer can help one to make a weather forecast. Although modern weather forecasting employs a lot of computer modeling, some reasonable ...

The modern smart phone is packed full of goodies that help it figure out where it is. Internal accelerometers provide orientation, and WiFi and GPS signals combine with it to provide geographic ...

The iPhone 6 and 6 Plus have a lot of nifty added features like near field communication for secure transactions and screens with serious pixel density. But one of the most noteworthy pieces of new ...

We have just published the midyear 2019 installment of the Morningstar Active/Passive Barometer. The Active/Passive Barometer measures active fund managers' performance relative to their passive peers ...