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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

Past recipients include Irwin Jacobs, Andrew Viterbi, and Jacob Ziv

Your concise overview of the radio frequency

Depending on your point of view, the Texas blackouts were caused by deregulation, green energy, or an isolated electrical grid

Ammonia engines and fuel cells could slash carbon emissions

SARDO is a drone that flies over disaster zones and acts as a mobile cellular base

The Mars rover sends back real-time video of its entire descent and landing on Mars

Prometheus can boldly go into places forbidden to humans and other robots

Without any electronics, this quadrupedal robot can walk in any direction and even avoid obstacles

By switching to virtual platforms, more than 1,600 events were held last year

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Not quite “eyesight to the blind,” but Mojo Vision and nonprofit partner collaborate on assistive sight-enhancement for visual impairments

Sandia Labs pioneers Just Another Quantum Assembly Language ("Jaqal") on their QSCOUT platform

The story of an audacious project told by two of its co-founders

Get a sneak peek at never-before-seen test gear

Development for the robotics and automation industry

Startup Novameat's hybrid meat analog chews like sirloin, pulls like pork

New NASA Mars mission's landing system steers away from dangers on the Martian surface

The Perseverance rover's Mars Helicopter (Ingenuity) will take off, navigate, and land on Mars without human intervention

When TomTom did its 2020 analysis of worldwide traffic jams, it found itself tracking the pandemic, economic recovery, and lockdown compliance

The L-shaped interferometer that detected the waves is now an IEEE Milestone

Darpa’s SSITH program aims for hardware architecture for IoT that’s immune to the seven major types of hardware hacks

The energy economy is changing faster than ever. Economist Kathy Hipple surveys the landscape

This bolt-on system creates a drone that can fly straight out of your fabricator

New mission uses AI to navigate Martian surface three times as quickly

The tattoo-like skin patch tracks blood pressure and heart rate while monitoring alcohol and caffeine levels

The space agency's latest rover will be arriving at Mars this week; here's what's going to happen

The "e5" vessel will use only lithium-ion batteries to ply Japan's coastline

The technology is expected to lower emissions and create more efficient electrical power systems

Sense mode and geometry of a simple gyroscope

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Accelerate your IoT projects with Avnet’s IoTConnect® Platform

The new owner of Boston Dynamics has some interesting ideas about what robots should be doing

Tactics, techniques, and procedures for securely operating in the cloud

Inexpensive and accessible electrical propulsion could be a boon for satellite-based Internet and Earth observing networks

Training AI agents via gameplay could yield a more flexible and general intelligence

A study reveals the benefits and drawbacks of having employees work from home

Onboard visual state estimation can save your quadrotor from a crash—and doesn't need GPS to do it

"Investigator" program intelligently sifts through hundreds of video feeds and quickly homes in on persons of interest

An influential 1951 conference in Paris considered the computer as a model of—and for—the human mind

Advanced Time-Domain Measurements

Advanced Pulse Detection Techniques

Its components can be placed on a chip, potentially opening the door to mass production

Polymer-coated carbon nanotube yarns the thickness of human hair have 10 times the capability of human muscles

Capacitorless DRAM using oxide semiconductors could be built in 3D layers above a processor’s silicon

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Why we celebrate innovation while ignoring maintenance and care

New approach for achieving consistent results with jitter decomposition