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What’s Different About Surveillance Servers?
As surveillance systems continue to evolve, their requirements are diverging from those of standard servers. Knowing a bit about the forces transforming surveillance can help you build the fittest server in the jungle.
Flying Saucer Quantum Dots: The Secret to Better, Brighter Lasers
The elliptical shape makes the lasing process easier
Efficiency of Silicon Solar Cells Climbs
Japanese materials company prototypes a 26.3% efficient silicon cell, steps away from the 29% theoretical maximum
This Self-Poofing Fabric Transforms From T-Shirt to Parka
Otherlab’s self-fluffing fabric changes its insulation in response to temperature
5 Things You Missed: Intel Inside Self-Driving Cars, Reversing Paralysis, and More
Highlights from the week of 13 March 2017
Video Friday: Robots Rapping, Robo-Boat Competition, and Wall-Avoiding Drone
Your weekly selection of awesome robot videos
Trump Dumps Climate Science and Innovation in 2018 Budget Blueprint
President Donald Trump outlined a fiscal 2018 budget request that asks Congress to stamp out federal climate science and slash investment in energy innovation
X-rays Map the 3D Interior of Integrated Circuits
With X-ray ptychography, researchers take the first step toward being able to easily map a chip for reverse engineering
Smartphone Accelerometers Can Be Fooled by Sound Waves
University of Michigan researchers spoof an accelerometer by hitting the right note
Point-and-Click Method Makes Robot Grasping Control Less Tedious
Teleoperating complex robots is really hard, and Georgia Tech is working to fix that
Combining Twisted Light and Plasmons Could Supercharge Data Storage
Creating and observing the orbital angular momentum of plasmons could open up a new data-storage system
Tesla Teams With Tiny Hawaiian Utility to Store Solar
Kauai Island Electric Cooperative is taking advantage of solar PV price drops and emerging battery technology to reinvent itself
Robotic Kelp Farms Promise an Ocean Full of Carbon-Neutral, Low-Cost Energy
Open-ocean kelp farms with drone shepherds could provide renewable energy that doesn't take up land area
Why Mary Lou Jepsen Left Facebook: To Transform Health Care and Invent Consumer Telepathy
Her device uses near-infrared to provide MRI-resolution imaging in a cheap wearable
Robot Knows the Right Question to Ask When It's Confused
Understanding when they don't understand will help make robots more useful
Introduction to EMC Compatibility
This paper is intended to provide the reader with a basic understanding of Electromagnetic Interference and Compatibility, the various standards and specifications associated with being compliant
The Nobelists and Their Molecular Machines
Development is incremental in molecular nanotechnology, but it is coming along slowly
Fractus Antennas Pitches New “Antenna-less” Smartphone Technology
Instead of a dedicated antenna, their approach radiates radio-frequency signals from the ground plane
One Small Step for a Paraplegic, One Big Step Toward Reversing Paralysis
A clinical trial in Switzerland is testing a spinal implant to help paralyzed people walk again
Can Ultraprecise Time Measurements Warp Space?
Einstein and Heisenberg suggest that exact time measurements can produce tiny gravitational fields
Deep Learning First: Drive.ai's Path to Autonomous Driving
These cars use deep learning to turn past experience into better decisions
Intel Buys Mobileye for $15 billion
The deal rounds out two years of frenetic robocar acquisitions
Silicon Valley Computational Drug Startup Takes on Glaucoma
Palo Alto startup twoXAR partners with Santen Pharmaceutical to identify new glaucoma drugs; efforts on rare skin disease, liver cancer, atherosclerosis, and diabetic nephropathy also underway
SXSW 2017: If the Internet Has a Kill Switch, We Are It
Policies and human beings are the weak points in ensuring a reliable and available Internet, experts say
5 Things You Missed This Week at IEEE Spectrum: A Bio-Inspired Drone, ARPA-E's Energy-Saving Innovations, and More
Highlights from the week of 6 March 2017
How Drive.ai Is Mastering Autonomous Driving with Deep Learning
Deep learning from the ground up helps Drive's cars handle the challenges of autonomous driving
With Synthetic Biology Software, Geneticists Design Living Organisms From Scratch
Project that aims to build a synthetic yeast pioneers the design and debugging of chromosomes
California Gives the Green Light to Self-Driving Cars
Companies could be allowed to operate and sell autonomous vehicles by the end of the year
Video Friday: Brain Scanning Baxter, Burger Flipping Arm, and Elevators With Feelings
Your weekly selection of awesome robot videos
ARPA-E Energy Innovation Summit: Self-Fluffing Fabrics and the World's Coolest Paint
We check out prototypes from a government-funded future of efficient, affordable energy
At SXSW, Don't Miss These IEEE Spectrum Events
We bring you Vint Cerf, a debate on synthetic biology, and the latest news on Moore's Law
This Hard-to-Destroy Drone Goes From Rigid to Flexible When It Crashes
Inspiration for this design came from insect wings
After WikiLeaks, a Recap of How the U.S. Government Discloses a Zero-Day
Through the secretive Vulnerability Equities Process, agencies determine whether to share software vulnerabilities with manufacturers
Is This Twilight for the Golden Age of Earth Observation?
NASA’s new geosensing satellites may be on the chopping block. The timing could hardly be worse
Nvidia wants AI to Get Out of the Cloud and Into a Camera, Drone, or Other Gadget Near You
And they have a new piece of hardware—the Jetson TX2—that they hope everyone will use for this edge processing
Single Atom Serves as World's Smallest Magnet and Data Storage Device
For the first time, a single atom can store a single bit of data
Download 6 Essential Tips for Getting the Most out of Your Oscilloscope
Download this interactive eBook to get ‘6 Essential Tips’ to help you do faster testing and avoid mistakes that negatively impact your results.
Solutions for 802.11p Wireless Access in Vehicular Environments (WAVE) Measurements
Learn about test solutions used by automotive engineers for advanced wireless technology providing increased safety with vehicle-to-vehicle (V2V) and vehicle-to-everything (V2X) communications.
SK Telecom Exec Talks 5G Tech, 2017 Trials
Don’t expect early 5G service in South Korea to reflect what carriers elsewhere have described
Inside DARPA’s Mission to Send a Repair Robot to Geosynchronous Orbit
The RSGS spacecraft could visit and inspect dozens of satellites
Leveraging Natural Language Processing in Requirements Analysis
This whitepaper explores emerging Natural Language Processing (NLP) technologies that significantly reduce the cost and effort of fixing requirements errors.
Where Will Disposal of Wastewater from Fracking and Other Drilling Trigger Earthquakes?
Injection wells that dispose of wastewater from oil and gas drilling operations can trigger earthquakes. Stanford releases a free tool to predict the risk
TALOS Humanoid Now Available from PAL Robotics
PAL Robotics hopes that within the next five years, TALOS will be working side by side with humans
Full Cost of Electricity: Modeling Natural Gas Prices Offers Insight for Future Fuel Prices
Market-calibrated forecasts for natural gas prices show historical trends, bode well for future updates with recent data sets
Hardware-in-the-Loop Testing for High-Performance Battery Management Systems
This session will present an open systems architecture approach to HIL test systems implementation using commercial off-the-shelf hardware and software.
In Hospital ICUs, AI Could Predict Which Patients Are Likely to Die
These artificial intelligence systems could smarten up intensive care units
Amoeba-Like Robot Programmed With DNA
Molecular robot brings us one step closer to mimicking cellular behavior
Commentary: The H-1B Visa Problem as IEEE-USA Sees It
The difference between what tech companies and outsourcing firms pay is the key problem
What's Edgier Than a Flying Robocar?
Half a flying robocar
IBM Expanding Cloud Quantum Computer Tenfold
The goal: a 50-qubit commercial universal quantum computer within five years
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