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Drones get into the swing of things by taking the swing out of things

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Safe, lower-cost storage tech could find footholds in data centers, telecoms, and home and grid storage

New AI technique can rapidly generate holograms with less than 1 megabyte of memory

Innovative dual-sensor system enables beekeepers to thwart swarming, robbing efforts

The technique could eventually lead to terabit per second laser links

MIT scientists demonstrate a hair-like plastic polymer cable that can transmit data 10 times as fast as USB

The ballot includes IEEE president-elect candidates, IEEE board of governors members-at-large, and IEEE-USA president-elect

The U.S. Army Research Laboratory has developed a dataset of faces to train facial recognition that works in darkness

A student team's lunar landing pad could help NASA astronauts avoid Apollo's risky moon landings

The latest in ultra-high-speed lasers and super-swift cameras pull off the previously impossible

Researchers are stretching the capabilities of smartwatches to track illnesses from COVID-19 to Crohn's disease

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Nanosheet devices allow tuning of memory cell design in a way FinFETs can’t

Canadian startup Xanadu says their quantum computer is cloud-accessible, Python programmable, and ready to scale

Covid-19 has laid bare crippling interoperability issues

For self-driving vehicles, full autonomy might not be quite as full as you think

Heat, light, and water all contribute to the tomato’s enormous energy footprint

IEEE also mourns the loss of Europe’s ‘father of the Internet’ and others

Self-interference cancellation brings wireless networks closer to single-frequency full duplex

Computer vision combined with deep learning can replicate the sense of touch in some social robots

As battery demand soars, researchers are turning to artificial intelligence for more effective and sustainable methods

Smartphone input can now generate photorealistically lit and shadowed 3D human faces, viewed from any angle

Troubleshooting the world’s navigation systems could streamline transport and save lives

In the San Francisco Bay Area, AR and VR jobs pay the most

Extreme stress testing of online platforms has become its own science

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

This Arduino-compatible watch uses an ESP32 microcontroller and an e-ink display

Instacart crunches petabytes daily to predict what will be on grocery shelves and even how long it will take to find parking

Pharma giants and computing titans increasingly partnering on quantum computing

Discovery of laser-triggered properties one step toward advanced quantum computers and high-speed, low-power devices

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With this thin microfluidic patch and an app, you’ll know if you’re staying hydrated

Numerical analysis indicates the failure of a hands-off approach to the pandemic

The evolution of underwater robots from smart torpedoes to surveillance fish

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Cities should value IoT deployments as the infrastructure they are

He credits IEEE with providing him with public speaking and leadership skills that have been vital to his success

The Social Network faced off with Australia about paying fees for news content; other countries may follow Australia’s example

Tiny wobbles of distant stars may soon help reveal life-sustaining worlds

The construction industry eyes 3D printing to build affordably and rapidly—and for the next few billion

2021 may be the year when quantum error correction finally helps

IBM's AI-based tools let engineers explore ways to extract value from legacy enterprise software

Jeannette Plante’s QA work on space missions goes a lot deeper than inspections

We asked ANYbotics, Boston Dynamics, and Clearpath Robotics about irresponsible or unethical use of their robots

Ten years after its devastating nuclear accident, Japan embraces solar, hydrogen, and offshore wind

A startup founded by two economists thinks direct air capture of carbon can be made cost-effective

Developers shouldn’t take network connectivity for granted

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