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L. Julian Haywood’s digital heart-rate monitor was one of many lifesaving innovations in cardiology in the 1960s

Augmentus’s intuitive robot-programming platform uses AI and computer vision algorithms

The robofish, called Bluebots, autonomously synchronize their swimming

New sensor uses ultrasound pulses to map out blood vessels within the fingertip, as well as fingerprints

Robots are no match for the sensors insect are born with, but that doesn’t matter if we can just steal them

The social network’s public filings portray an echo-chamber factory

Learn how to master the videoconferencing medium

The world’s largest SETI effort is scanning the skies with AI

A novel ink enables bioengineers to print bone-like material at room temperature with living cells

We are getting less efficient at converting energy into usable forms

Newfound “edge AI” applications for device that integrates memory and computing, has randomness built in, sips battery power

Your engineering solutions for 2021 have arrived

Carl Howe has gone from computer scientist to analyst to educator

A “neural bypass” routes signals around the damaged spinal cord, potentially restoring both movement and sensation

The supercomputer could explore up to 200 million possible chess positions per second with its AI program

An MIT-developed vaccination card aims to cut through vaccine distribution chaos while preserving patient privacy

Reflective microwave meta-mirror could offer unique solution for next-generation wireless networks

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Vehicles are not toys; keep games were they belong

Blockchain, AI, cloud computing, and remote health-monitoring devices can drive adoption of decentralized clinical trials

Access to prerelease Pi hardware was a boon, but not without pitfalls

Putting these in the cryogenic freezer could make quantum computers more powerful and compact

As bills and coins fade away, so does financial privacy

The election’s winner will serve as IEEE president in 2023

Flame retardant epoxies and silicones meet critical safety requirements

All FEMA needs is a few good developers to bring emergency alerts into games and other virtual worlds

Plasmonic transceivers could sling huge amounts of data between processors

Instead of building echo chambers, Facebook, Twitter and company can tweak their code to broaden exposure to wider ranges of views

Machine learning model meant for understanding language searches for coronavirus strains that could evade the vaccine

Here's how Remote ID and FAA's new drone rules about flying at night and over people will affect you

Hybrid Optomechanical Technologies is developing a new generation of technologies that use light and motion to create and process signals

Argonne National Lab’s new ability to look inside a battery will lead to better, lighter, quicker-charging batteries, from phones to cars

Dating from 2015, the agency’s definition of broadband is much too slow

The program will be based on the popular IEEE distributed energy resources interconnection standard

How to build an effective Cloud Threat Intelligence program in the AWS Cloud

Artificial intelligence makes it hard to tell when decision-making is biased

Along with technical issues, a new study suggests that trust and transparency are barriers for broader acceptance of the apps

Super strong protections now in place; just don't fiddle with the lasers

Postcard from the 23rd century: Not even possible to know if an AI is superintelligent, much less stop it

Using edge AI and wearable biosensors, an app detects COVID within two minutes—even in asymptomatic patients.

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He is behind the Lempel-Ziv compression algorithms

Some ideas for new consumer products introduced at CES 2021 get five stars, others get five question marks

Learn how to distinguish between common-mode (CM) and differential-mode (DM) noise

Facemasks with built-in earphones and loudspeakers, desktop UV phone disinfectors, and a host of portable air purifiers are among the gadgets launching in the age of Covid

Learn a six-step process to help you identify and address cyber vulnerabilities across the entire automotive electronics architecture

Team makes multiple processors with 3D memory act like one big chip

And a spoon that electrifies your tongue to help you taste better might be the weirdest gizmo at CES

Nashlie Sephus is also working to transform her Mississippi hometown into a tech hub