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The Improbable Origins of PowerPoint
Here’s the surprising story behind the software that conquered the world, one slide at a time
Blueberry Farm Uses Lasers to Scare Off Hungry Birds
But no one really knows how lasers affect bird vision
Waymo Prepares to Ditch Its Safety Drivers
Alphabet’s self-driving car company showcases minivans operating without human oversight
Loss of Hewlett-Packard Archive a Wake-Up Call for Computer Historians
The Wine Country fires destroyed an irreplaceable piece of Silicon Valley history
Weak, Brainless Quadruped Robot Autonomously Generates Gaits
This robot has no sensors, no controller, and weak actuators, but it can autonomously generate a variety of gaits
IBM Simulates a 56-Qubit Machine
A supercomputer surpasses the proposed limit of using conventional machines to simulate quantum computers
Report Scores Cities to See if Technology Makes Them Safer
Singapore and London have rolled out CCTVs, police body cameras, and new apps to assist law enforcement
Video Friday: Rocket RoboBee, Willow Garage, and Caltech's Cassie
Your weekly selection of awesome robot videos
New "Ultrasound on a Chip" Tool Could Revolutionize Medical Imaging
Entrepreneur and disruptor Jonathan Rothberg launches an ultrasound tool from his latest company, Butterfly Networks
Behold, the World’s Most Famous Teapot
Used in pioneering computer-graphics research, the Utah teapot has made cameos in Pixar’s Toy Story, Disney’s Beauty and the Beast, and “The Simpsons”
Slideshow: The Beautiful Obsolescence of Discarded TVs
A photographer captures the last traces of a dying technology on the sidewalks of New York City
Watch Yamaha's Humanoid Robot Ride a Motorcycle Around a Racetrack
The point is not to win races, but to make motorcycles a lot safer
New AFM Technique Reveals Piezoelectricity in Ferroelectric Materials
The potential for ferroelectric materials in next-generation electronics gets a boost
Want a Temperature-Controlled Cordless Soldering Iron? Here’s How to Make One
You can’t buy one, but you can build a DIY one for tinkering in the field
ARM CEO: Tech Industry Must Build an Immune System to Prevent a Cybercrime Pandemic
In a manifesto, ARM’s Simon Segars says tech companies must take lifetime responsibility for the security of every connected device they create
French Regulators Approve Human Trial of a Bionic Eye
Visual prosthesis to be implanted in five patients with retinal disease
Mexico Border Wall Won’t Stop Cross-border Power Push
Mexico and its U.S. neighbors are planning expanded electrical trade even as President Trump continues pushing to build a border wall. New transmission links and greater use of existing connections could ease the integration of renewable energy by both countries.
Alan Turing: How His Universal Machine Became a Musical Instrument
The computing pioneer gave his computer the ability to play notes
Artificial Intelligence Beats CAPTCHA
Neural net modeled after human brain's visual system could aid computer preception
It’s Big and Long-Lived, and It Won’t Catch Fire: The Vanadium Redox-Flow Battery
Move over, lithium ion: Vanadium flow batteries finally become competitive for grid-scale energy storage
5 Essential Hints to Improve Millimeter-wave Network Analysis
Improve your results for design and test network analysis at millimeter-wave frequencies.
India as No. 1
China gets all the attention, but there’s another big Asian country that’s making gigantic strides
New Graphene Sensor is Less Noisy, More Sensitive
The team that built it hopes it will lead to portable graphene-based biochemical sensors
Why Human-Controlled, Force-Multiplying Robots Are the Future of Work on Earth
Sarcos CEO Ben Wolff argues that highly mobile, dexterous robots will transform industry and disaster response
A Full-Bodied Red, With Notes of…Ultrasound?
The next step in wine production that will appeal to connoisseurs' palates and vintners' bottom lines: the art of noise
Albert Einstein—Refrigerator Technician?
Asis Kumar Chaudhuri has delved into the great theorist’s less successful life as an engineer
ISS Astronauts Operating Remote Robots Show Future of Planetary Exploration
If we want to send humans to Mars, we'll need astronaut-robot collaboration systems like this
Measure With Greater Accuracy and Confidence
Take the uncertainty out of millimeter-wave design and test.
5G Waveform Candidates
In this application note we discuss potential 5G waveform candidates, list their advantages and disadvantages
The Lure of a Fully Decentralized Internet
There are pros and cons, but let’s be honest—decentralized technologies are just more fun
Problems in Big Data: Understanding Cities through Data Analytics and Embedded Systems
Urbanization is one of the great challenges and opportunities of this century, inextricably tied to global challenges ranging from climate change to sustainable use of energy and natural resources, and from personal health and safety to accelerating innovation and education.
Off-Grid Electricity Projects Are Starved for Funds
Despite the promise of off-grid solar, 99 percent of funding still goes to grid projects
Superaccurate GPS Coming to Smartphones in 2018
Broadcom’s mass-market GPS chips boost accuracy to 30 centimeters
To Secure the Internet of Things, We Must Build It Out of “Patchable” Hardware
The flexibility of FPGAs will protect the world’s network of smart devices
Who’s Hiring? (Amazon, McDonald’s, Lyft) Who’s Firing? (Cisco, Tesla, HPE)
A sampling of recent technology job news shows positive signs if you want to work on Amazon’s Alexa or autonomous driving. Networking, not so much
Save Time and Money with Unit Testing
Test engineers are familiar on the best ways to design their hardware tests. However, they don't apply the same principles to their software.
Testing DIY Digital Video for FPV Flying
Wifibroadcast promises digital video for FPV flyers using Raspberry Pi computers and ordinary WiFi dongles
Video Friday: Sony's Home Robot, MegaBots Duel, and Six-Legged Zebros
Your weekly selection of awesome robot videos
People With Vertigo Find Relief Through Nerve-Stimulating Implant
The experimental implants stimulate the vestibular nerves in the inner ear to treat dizziness
Carbon Nanotubes Make Big Push in Plasmonic Circuits
Plasmonic interconnect circuits represent first step towards carbon nanotube-based CMOS integrated circuits
Does Age Discrimination in Tech Start at 40?
Study shows millennials are about to dominate the tech workforce, and even some GenX-ers have age discrimination worries
Carnegie Mellon Solves 12-Year-Old DARPA Grand Challenge Mystery
H1ghlander narrowly took second in the 2005 DARPA Grand Challenge. Just last week, CMU figured out why
CNN Uses Vantage Robotics' Snap Drone to Win FAA Fly-Over-People Waiver
The news network is now allowed to film over crowds using a lightweight video drone
The Most Cringe-Inducing Surgical Robots from IEEE's Intelligent Robots Conference
Videos: Five biomedical bots you never want to have to face
Smart Power Electronic Converters May Help Stabilize the Grid
Qing-Chang Zhong lays out his vision for a harmonious grid
Turning the Optical Fiber Network into a Giant Earthquake Sensor
The best earthquake monitoring system is already installed under our feet, say Stanford researchers
Octopus-Inspired Camouflage for Soft Robotics
A new elastic skin morphs to produce different textures
Computing and the Fermi Paradox: A New Idea Emerges—The Aliens Are All Asleep
Perhaps we’re not alone in the universe; it’s just that everyone else is snoozing
AlphaGo Zero Goes From Rank Beginner to Grandmaster in Three Days—Without Any Help
Google DeepMind takes deep neural networks where no machine has gone before
Night Vision for Self-Driving Cars
Israeli startup AdaSky says their infrared camera will help cars navigate gnarly conditions
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