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Factory machines will use time-sensitive networking to coordinate their work

Novel repeater units and a clever layout of ferrite plates helps this new wireless-power-transfer system simultaneously deliver power to 10 devices

Stanford’s DeepSolar neural network analyzed satellite images to count U.S. solar installations—and there are a lot more than anybody thought

Crop scientists hope to replace traditional, painstaking monitoring methods with automation

Manhole antenna solution offers glimpse into 5G strategies for signal propagation

A popular chat service, 3615 SM, has been resurrected from the original code

A new modeling tool aims to capture the butterfly effect that occurs across a city when unexpected events occur

Hardware-based motion planning that operates in under a millisecond makes robots both safer and more versatile

The FCC says hundreds of fragments from the Starlink constellation could reach the Earth’s surface every day

CHAdeMO and the China Electricity Council invite other countries to join them in creating an open charging standard for electric vehicles

Inspired by the man who showed the way to modern computing, tech-minded experts shared ideas for how to tackle climate change, nuclear proliferation, and broken political systems

Six teams won US $750,000 each by showing that their AIs could responsibly manage spectrum

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That lightning-bolt of a charger needs cooling for the cable and the battery

This quadrotor can alter its shape in flight depending on where it needs to go

Could this be the end of underage drinking in New Orleans bars?

Sensor based monitoring is becoming popular among the aging population. Here’s how to select a sensor to fit your application and parameters.

In 1973, Bowmar/ALI was the biggest calculator company in the world. In 1976, it went out of business

The original action camera started as a home-sewn strap that secured a disposable camera to the user’s wrist

Product management, reliability, and security jobs pay the most in Silicon Valley, says job search firm Indeed

This odd hybrid camera had a mechanical shutter and a 6.1-megapixel image sensor

The idea for the Walkman came from Sony’s opera-loving cofounder

The first cellphone with an AMOLED screen fizzled in the marketplace, despite combining several very advanced technologies

A research team tries to turn bees into living drones by gluing wireless sensor platforms to their backs

That’s the promise of 42, a free school for software engineering

Researchers tried out several new devices to get closer to the ideal needed for deep learning and neuromorphic computing

A test in sheep shows that custom-made electrodes can constrict an injured artery and reduce blood loss

The following article is a summary of OnScale’s webinar discussing how OnScale allows companies to optimize their most demanding sensor and system designs using powerful FEM seamlessly integrated with Cloud HPC.

Over a dozen robots that we promise will make fantastic holiday gifts

In collaboration with Mentor, OnScale presents an article on the meticulous product design of the MEMS pressure sensor, by the industry experts, along with the simulation and the design of the sensor as well as its integration into the overall system.

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Mechanical metamaterials can have their rigidity tuned, offering a new approach to soft robotics

First the stent electrode listened for brain signals. Now it talks back

We needed to implement a cost-effective low-altitude aerial testbed that can verify novel wireless communications applications between the airborne node and ground terminals while meeting tight constraints for payload weight, volume and power consumption

Critics say the agency’s proposed coverage obligations “disregard the laws of physics”

AlphaZero, a general-purpose game-playing system, quickly taught itself to be the best player ever in Go, chess and Shogi

How UAVs benefit consumers through faster estimates, quicker response times and faster delivery of benefits

Energy harvesting IoT chips could compute with low power relays

Roku succeeded in a chaotic market and despite daunting odds—and then set standards copied by much bigger rivals

Xbox was a blindingly spectacular exception in Microsoft’s otherwise mostly dismal record in consumer-oriented hardware

Here are the stories behind the best gadgets of the past 50 years

RadioShack hoped PC sales would offset the income decline caused by waning interest in CB radios

The Zojirushi was among the first appliances to use fuzzy logic, and made it almost impossible to ruin a pot of rice

A project to build the ultimate CD player hinged on the design of a low-pass filter

The Greatest Gadgets of the Past 50 Years

Adapting Microsoft's mixed reality technology to meet soldiers' needs could be challenging, one expert says