China Tries To Solve Its Rocket Debris Problem by Andrew Jones on 2021-06-24 13:34 (#5KFT2) Warnings aren't enough, but reusable rockets might be
Study: 6G's Haptic, Holographic Future? by Payal Dhar on 2021-06-24 12:41 (#5KFP8) Possibilities and challenges for future 6G communications networks
Why Does the World Harbor So Many Different Voltages, Plugs, and Sockets? by Vaclav Smil on 2021-06-23 19:00 (#5KEQS) Blame it on the varied evolutionary history of electric power grids and the products that have grown up alongside them
White-Hot Blocks as Renewable Energy Storage? by Prachi Patel on 2021-06-23 15:38 (#5KEDB) Thermal batteries could be the cheap and simple option
A Century Ago, the Optophone Allowed Blind People to Hear the Printed Word by Edd Thomas on 2021-06-23 15:00 (#5KEDC) The optophone turned letters into tones and was the proof of concept for optical character recognition
Cell Phone Radios Could Take Another Giant Leap Towards Miniaturization by Charles Q. Choi on 2021-06-23 13:00 (#5KE10) New acoustic devices may point to ways to make wireless technology even more compact
What’s Going on With Amazon’s “High-Tech” Warehouse Robots? by Evan Ackerman on 2021-06-23 12:00 (#5KDYK) Amazon describes these as high-tech autonomous vehicles, but the technology looks like it’s already out of date
A Beginner’s Guide to Topological Materials by Charles Q. Choi on 2021-06-22 19:00 (#5KD37) The stuff of 2016’s Nobel Prize in Physics could become the logic in future computers and consumer electronics
Address PCB Manufacturing Risks with Intelligent DfM on 2021-06-22 17:30 (#5KD0W) Address PCB Manufacturing Risks with Intelligent DfM
Fiber Optic Cables Could Shake Up Our Understanding of Deep-Sea Quakes by Michael Koziol on 2021-06-22 16:06 (#5KCYD) Tiny perturbations in signal polarizations can hint at underwater seismic events
Engineering in Secret by Daniel P. Dern on 2021-06-22 15:00 (#5KCQD) Sandia’s Dennisa Thomas ensures critical systems work as intended
The Triumph of the Electric Motor by Mark Pesce on 2021-06-21 19:00 (#5KBFZ) A combination of batteries, motors, and smarts is pushing aside internal-combustion engines, large and small
Celebrate IEEE Day on 5 October by Sakib Ahmed on 2021-06-21 18:00 (#5KBD8) Members and sections are encouraged to start planning activities such as competitions, membership drives, and STEM programs for kids
Fixing the Chemical Industry’s Sustainability Problem by Steven Cherry on 2021-06-21 17:00 (#5KBAD) A startup, led by a 25-year-old chemical engineer, is leading the way
Webinar: sub-THz communication – A key enabler for Beyond 5G? on 2021-06-21 15:30 (#5KB5B) sub-THz communication – A Key enabler for Beyond 5G?
Put the Classic PDP-8 Minicomputer on Your Shelf by Stephen Cass on 2021-06-21 15:00 (#5KB5C) This Raspberry Pi–powered replica runs all the original PDP-8 software with enough cycles left to double as a media server
Pride in Tech: How Lotus Championed Gay Rights During the AIDS Crisis by David C. Brock on 2021-06-18 19:00 (#5K8C5) The leader in personal-computer software also aimed to be the most progressive company in the world
Video Friday: Telexistence by Evan Ackerman on 2021-06-18 15:01 (#5K841) Your weekly selection of awesome robot videos
The Inventor of the Black Box Was Told to Drop the Idea and “Get On With Blowing Up Fuel Tanks” by Allison Marsh on 2021-06-18 15:00 (#5K842) Fortunately, David Warren kept working on his crash-proof flight data recorder
Rocket Mining System Could Blast Ice from Lunar Craters by Evan Ackerman on 2021-06-18 14:47 (#5K843) A concept competing for a NASA award would use an enclosed rocket engine and vacuum system to harvest water ice from the lunar surface
Backscatter Radio at Gigabit Speeds by Charles Q. Choi on 2021-06-18 13:00 (#5K7Y9) RFID's faster cousin could lead to high-speed, low-power data transfer
Two Natural-Language AI Algorithms Walk Into A Bar... by Ned Potter on 2021-06-18 13:00 (#5K7Y8) ...And reveal some persistently bigoted tendencies of GPT-3
This Startup Says Their Battery Tech Beats Rivals By 10 Percent by Lawrence Ulrich on 2021-06-18 12:00 (#5K7VT) NanoGraf claims its silicon-anode lithium cells can make the leap to commercial scale
It’s (Still) Really Hard for Robots to Autonomously Do Household Chores by Evan Ackerman on 2021-06-17 19:38 (#5K726) Something as simple as breakfast takes this PR2 90 minutes to set up and then clean, and it’s not always successful
Artificial Sunlight Gets a Boost from LED Windows by Qusi Alqarqaz on 2021-06-17 18:00 (#5K6XP) LightGlass’s CEO talks about the company’s light fixtures, which combine window construction principles with circadian-rhythm strategies
This Tech Entrepreneur Scored With Home Media Streaming; Now He’s Miniaturizing the Chocolate Factory by Tekla S. Perry on 2021-06-17 15:05 (#5K6KZ) Move over, bread machine. Five years and as many prototypes after starting his quest, Nate Saal aims to bring his smart, small, do-it-all chocolate machine to your countertop
The Right Way to Terraform by Rodney Brooks on 2021-06-17 15:00 (#5K6M0) To colonize other planets, start with tools we’re already using on Earth
New AI Proves to Be a Trash Sorter Extraordinaire by Michelle Hampson on 2021-06-17 14:19 (#5K6M1) GarbageNet has the potential to divert compost and recyclables from the landfill
Harnessing the Wild Power of AI Image Generation by Jeremy Hsu on 2021-06-16 14:22 (#5K54S) A layout- and style-based architecture shows how to control AI capabilities to generate complex images
Lethal Autonomous Weapons Exist; They Must Be Banned by Stuart Russell on 2021-06-16 12:00 (#5K4S4) It may not be too late to put the evil "Slaughterbots" genie back in the bottle, if the world acts now
Introducing the New IEEE Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Website by IEEE on 2021-06-15 18:00 (#5K3TF) It includes information and resources on the topics
Tencent’s New Wheeled Robot Flicks Its Tail To Do Backflips by Evan Ackerman on 2021-06-15 16:05 (#5K3TG) Ollie’s wheels, legs, and tail allow it to balance, flip, manage stairs, and deliver coffee
Electric Flying Cars May Be Possible With New Batteries by Charles Q. Choi on 2021-06-15 14:24 (#5K3FH) Lithium-ion cells with nickel foil can handle fast charging and could sustain 80-kilometer flights
The Mac Is Selling Like Never Before Thanks to the M1 Chip by Matthew S. Smith on 2021-06-14 20:00 (#5K2ER) Apple’s homegrown chip fulfills Steve Jobs’s “whole widget” design philosophy
Let’s Put Cheap, Portable Nuclear Reactors onto Barges by Steven Cherry on 2021-06-14 14:00 (#5K20N) …. and float them out to sea. What could go wrong?
Where Are the AI Jobs? Look to a Farm or a Forest by Tekla S. Perry on 2021-06-14 13:37 (#5K20P) The agriculture and forestry sector is on the hunt for AI pros, as are others outside the tech mainstream
Video Friday: Drone Refueling by Evan Ackerman on 2021-06-11 18:11 (#5JZ3A) Your weekly selection of awesome robot videos
Three Chips in One: The History of the BCD Integrated Circuit by Joanna Goodrich on 2021-06-11 18:00 (#5JZ3B) STMicroelectronics’ super-integrated silicon-gate process—used to combine bipolar, CMOS, and DMOS technologies—is now an IEEE Milestone
The iPhone 12 Mini Makes Me Sick (Literally) by Tekla S. Perry on 2021-06-11 16:02 (#5JYYM) Manufacturers don’t like to talk about OLED display flicker, but for the sensitive, it’s a nightmare
Simulate, design, and test field-weakening control webinar on 2021-06-11 14:30 (#5JYR6) Learn 2 workflows for field-weakening control
These Technologists Are Trying to Make COVID-19 Risk Assessment More of a Science by David Schneider on 2021-06-11 13:00 (#5JYNP) The microCOVID Project crunches your location and desired activity into a real-world risk estimate
Case Study: How Qualcomm achieves faster signoff DRC convergence in P&R on 2021-06-10 20:30 (#5JXTF) How Qualcomm achieves faster signoff DRC convergence in P&R
Mars-bound Astronauts Might Raid This Zero-G Fridge by Payal Dhar on 2021-06-10 17:33 (#5JXR8) Engineers at Purdue University have built a prototype of a refrigerator that works in zero gravity
Terran R Rocket from Relativity Space Will Be Completely 3D Printed, Completely Reusable by Evan Ackerman on 2021-06-10 12:48 (#5JX5G) The first stage, second stage, and payload fairing of the Terran R will all be recovered and flown again
DNA-based Circuits May Be the Future of Medicine, and This Software Program Will Get Us There Faster by Michelle Hampson on 2021-06-09 17:11 (#5JVZG) The program allows anyone without knowledge in chemistry to easily design DNA-based circuits.
Update: Google Used a New AI to Design Its Next AI Chip by Samuel K. Moore on 2021-06-09 15:17 (#514G7) And that next version of the TPU might help an AI design its own successor
Here’s What 6G Will Be, According to the Creator of Massive MIMO by Michael Koziol on 2021-06-08 19:31 (#5JTPS) Tom Marzetta, the director of NYU Wireless, explains how it will be the next level of human-to-human communication
IEEE New Initiatives Program is Looking to Bring Your Bright Ideas Into the Light by Lesleigh Campanale on 2021-06-08 18:00 (#5JTHF) The Robots Guide and the IEEE Learning Network are among the enterprises sparked by the program
Why Can't Computing at the Heart of Bitcoin Be More Useful? by Edd Gent on 2021-06-08 16:47 (#5JTEC) The landmark cryptocurrency's energy use is out of hand, so researchers are investigating ways to make it more productive