Can Joe Biden Deliver a Sci-Tech Renaissance? by Natasha Bajema on 2021-03-19 15:00 (#5FJ4R) Net neutrality, the Iran nuclear deal, and a government-wide climate focus are all on the agenda
Mojo Vision Details Low-Power Chips for Augmented Reality Contact Lenses by Samuel K. Moore on 2021-03-19 12:00 (#5FHXQ) Circuit design cuts imager power below 100 microwatts, processor does zoom and enhancements
The U.S. Government Finally Gets Serious About IoT Security by Stacey Higginbotham on 2021-03-18 19:00 (#5FH76) New legislation will be a boon for devices all over the world
Reentering the Workforce Is a Focal Point at the IEEE Women in Engineering Conference by Heather Quinn on 2021-03-18 18:00 (#5FH4X) Also on the virtual event’s program are sessions about biotechnology, disruptive technology, and executive leadership
Order the all-new ANSI/NETA ATS-2021 Standard for Acceptance Testing Specifications for Electrical Power Equipment and Systems. on 2021-03-18 17:30 (#5FH4Y) The All-new ANSI/NETA ATS-2021 Is Now Available
Foam Sword Fencing With a PR2 Is the Best Kind of Exercise by Evan Ackerman on 2021-03-18 15:19 (#5FH1P) Adversarial robots could help humans exercise more effectively
Neuroscientists Unveil Tech for the Vision Impaired: Bionic Eyes, Textured Tablets and More by Megan Scudellari on 2021-03-18 14:23 (#5FGT1) Devices shift away from Robocop-like wearables to simpler, more accessible assistive solutions
Learn Who We Have to Thank for the Term Work-Life Balance by Lisa Nocks on 2021-03-17 18:00 (#5FFHR) This award-winning industrial engineer’s family was portrayed in the Cheaper by the Dozen movie
MIT’s HERMIT Crab Robots Can Do Anything You Shell Them To by Evan Ackerman on 2021-03-17 17:24 (#5FFHS) Inspired by the shell-swapping hermit crab, MIT’s HERMITS use interchangeable mechanical shells to do all sorts of creative things
Major(ana) Backpedaling: Microsoft-Backed Quantum Computer Research Retracted by Charles Q. Choi on 2021-03-17 17:17 (#5FFHT) Controversial evidence for elusive, hypothesized quasiparticles debunked
Mathematics, Politics, and Justice Denied by Steven Cherry on 2021-03-16 21:30 (#5FE3X) A mathematician uses statistical science to prove gerrymandering, and courts are sometimes convinced
Measure the True Performance of Your Device on 2021-03-16 17:30 (#5FDSN) eBook: Millimeter-Wave Receiver Calibration Made Easier, Cheaper, And Faster
Volkswagen Announces EV Battery Push by Sandy Ong on 2021-03-16 17:00 (#5FDSP) The German automaker unveiled a new battery and charging strategy at its virtual Power Day event
High Resolution Sound Cameras Reveal Why Hummingbirds Hum by Evan Ackerman on 2021-03-16 14:00 (#5FDF9) Thousands of microphones crack the secret of a psychoacoustic auditory experience that many people find pleasing
Training Program Aims to Boost Startups in Low-GDP Countries by Kathy Pretz on 2021-03-15 18:00 (#5FC6S) IEEE Innovation Nation helps budding entrepreneurs refine their initial idea and develop a working prototype
Cybersecurity Report: “Smart Farms” Are Hackable Farms by Payal Dhar on 2021-03-15 17:00 (#5FC4C) Net- and IoT-connected agriculture could help feed 8.5 billion by 2030—but also may be broadly vulnerable to cybersecurity threats
Can AI Stop People From Believing Fake News? by Brian T. Horowitz on 2021-03-15 16:00 (#5FC17) Machine learning algorithms provide a way to detect misinformation based on writing style and how articles are shared
Pro Sports COVID-19 Sensors Trace Rise of Ultra-Wideband Tech by Jeremy Hsu on 2021-03-13 16:00 (#5F9W3) Bluetooth- and UWB-based contact tracing both compelling, though UWB may be poised for post-pandemic takeoff
Video Friday: A Walking, Wheeling Quadruped by Evan Ackerman on 2021-03-12 19:38 (#5F94T) Your weekly selection of awesome robot videos
This Father-and-Son Duo Was Essential to Ionospheric Research at the Arecibo Observatory by Joanna Goodrich on 2021-03-12 19:00 (#5F92W) A new IEEE Oral History explains how the sounders the two developed measured the ionosphere using transmitters and receivers operating in shortwave radio bands
With This CAD for Genomes, You Can Design New Organisms by Eliza Strickland on 2021-03-11 21:29 (#5F7TF) Forthcoming software from the GP-Write consortium aims to make large-scale genome editing and design more accessible
Improved Technology for Deepfakes Highlights a Supply Chain Problem by Fahmida Y. Rashid on 2021-03-11 15:16 (#5F77E) The machine learning supply chain can be sabotaged with bad training data
Low-Cost Drones Learn Precise Control Over Suspended Loads by Evan Ackerman on 2021-03-11 13:00 (#5F6ZP) Drones get into the swing of things by taking the swing out of things
It’s Time to Nominate the Next Leaders of IEEE by Keisha Carr on 2021-03-10 19:00 (#5F5ZT) Volunteers are needed to serve as corporate officers, committee chairs, and other positions
Sodium-Ion Batteries Poised to Pick Off Large-Scale Lithium-Ion Applications by Prachi Patel on 2021-03-10 17:38 (#5F5WK) Safe, lower-cost storage tech could find footholds in data centers, telecoms, and home and grid storage
Deep Learning Enables Real-Time 3D Holograms On a Smartphone by Charles Q. Choi on 2021-03-10 16:13 (#5F5PK) New AI technique can rapidly generate holograms with less than 1 megabyte of memory
Radar-Piezoelectric Tech Tracks Hive Mind—of Bees by Michelle Hampson on 2021-03-10 13:00 (#5F5DA) Innovative dual-sensor system enables beekeepers to thwart swarming, robbing efforts
Duke University and Facebook’s Connectivity Lab Bring Better Optical Communications to Light by Michael Koziol on 2021-03-09 21:00 (#5F4KC) The technique could eventually lead to terabit per second laser links
Plastic Polymer Cables That Rival Fiber Optics by Payal Dhar on 2021-03-09 20:00 (#5F4HC) MIT scientists demonstrate a hair-like plastic polymer cable that can transmit data 10 times as fast as USB
Countdown to the IEEE Annual Election by Arpana Patel on 2021-03-09 19:00 (#5F4EZ) The ballot includes IEEE president-elect candidates, IEEE board of governors members-at-large, and IEEE-USA president-elect
Army Trains AI to Identify Faces in the Dark by Jeremy Hsu on 2021-03-09 17:00 (#5F48S) The U.S. Army Research Laboratory has developed a dataset of faces to train facial recognition that works in darkness
Students' Lunar Pad Could Help NASA Return to the Moon by Jeremy Hsu on 2021-03-09 15:30 (#5F45M) A student team's lunar landing pad could help NASA astronauts avoid Apollo's risky moon landings
Ultra-quick Cameras Reveal How to Catch a Light Pulse Mid-Flight by Michael Dumiak on 2021-03-07 14:00 (#5F1M0) The latest in ultra-high-speed lasers and super-swift cameras pull off the previously impossible
COVID's Unlikely Offspring: The Rise of Smartwatch as Illness Detector by Brian T. Horowitz on 2021-03-06 18:00 (#5F12K) Researchers are stretching the capabilities of smartwatches to track illnesses from COVID-19 to Crohn's disease
Video Friday: Nanotube-Powered Insect Robots by Evan Ackerman on 2021-03-05 18:06 (#5F00A) Your weekly selection of awesome robot videos
Samsung’s 3-nm Tech Shows Nanosheet Transistor Advantage by Samuel K. Moore on 2021-03-05 17:49 (#5EZX0) Nanosheet devices allow tuning of memory cell design in a way FinFETs can’t
In the Race to Hundreds of Qubits, Photons May Have "Quantum Advantage" by Charles Q. Choi on 2021-03-05 16:00 (#5EZQM) Canadian startup Xanadu says their quantum computer is cloud-accessible, Python programmable, and ready to scale
Why Electronic Health Records Haven't Helped U.S. With Vaccinations by Robert N. Charette on 2021-03-04 21:14 (#5EYRT) Covid-19 has laid bare crippling interoperability issues
What Full Autonomy Means for the Waymo Driver by Evan Ackerman on 2021-03-04 20:08 (#5EYKX) For self-driving vehicles, full autonomy might not be quite as full as you think
How Much Energy Does It Take to Grow a Tomato? by Vaclav Smil on 2021-03-04 20:00 (#5EYKY) Heat, light, and water all contribute to the tomato’s enormous energy footprint
Developer of Handheld Cable Tester for U.S. Army Dies at 80 by Joanna Goodrich on 2021-03-04 19:00 (#5EYHE) IEEE also mourns the loss of Europe’s ‘father of the Internet’ and others
How To Build a Radio That Ignores Its Own Transmissions by Joel Brand on 2021-03-04 16:00 (#5EY8V) Self-interference cancellation brings wireless networks closer to single-frequency full duplex
Visible Touch: How Cameras Can Help Robots Feel by Payal Dhar on 2021-03-04 14:01 (#5EY58) Computer vision combined with deep learning can replicate the sense of touch in some social robots
Using AI to Find Essential Battery Materials by Maria Gallucci on 2021-03-04 13:00 (#5EXZX) As battery demand soars, researchers are turning to artificial intelligence for more effective and sustainable methods
2D video to 3D faces: Facing down a key challenge in VR by Rina Diane Caballar on 2021-03-03 22:15 (#5EX7Z) Smartphone input can now generate photorealistically lit and shadowed 3D human faces, viewed from any angle
The Networks That Aim to Track GPS Interference Around the World by Mark Harris on 2021-03-03 17:00 (#5EWV4) Troubleshooting the world’s navigation systems could streamline transport and save lives
Silicon Valley Stays on Top as Tech Salaries Climb Across U.S. by Tekla S. Perry on 2021-03-03 16:04 (#5EWRA) In the San Francisco Bay Area, AR and VR jobs pay the most
Chaos Engineering Saved Your Netflix by Michael Dumiak on 2021-03-03 16:00 (#5EWRB) Extreme stress testing of online platforms has become its own science
Review: DJI’s New FPV Drone is Effortless, Exhilarating Fun by Evan Ackerman on 2021-03-02 20:39 (#5EVJD) It can be a little scary to fly, but DJI’s FPV drone is a solid, easy to use intro to an otherwise very challenging and expensive sport
Watchy: The Hackable $50 Smartwatch by Stephen Cass on 2021-03-02 20:00 (#5EVFF) This Arduino-compatible watch uses an ESP32 microcontroller and an e-ink display