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Inspired by the shell-swapping hermit crab, MIT’s HERMITS use interchangeable mechanical shells to do all sorts of creative things

Controversial evidence for elusive, hypothesized quasiparticles debunked

A mathematician uses statistical science to prove gerrymandering, and courts are sometimes convinced

eBook: Millimeter-Wave Receiver Calibration Made Easier, Cheaper, And Faster

The German automaker unveiled a new battery and charging strategy at its virtual Power Day event

Thousands of microphones crack the secret of a psychoacoustic auditory experience that many people find pleasing

IEEE Innovation Nation helps budding entrepreneurs refine their initial idea and develop a working prototype

Net- and IoT-connected agriculture could help feed 8.5 billion by 2030—but also may be broadly vulnerable to cybersecurity threats

Machine learning algorithms provide a way to detect misinformation based on writing style and how articles are shared

Bluetooth- and UWB-based contact tracing both compelling, though UWB may be poised for post-pandemic takeoff

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A new IEEE Oral History explains how the sounders the two developed measured the ionosphere using transmitters and receivers operating in shortwave radio bands

Forthcoming software from the GP-Write consortium aims to make large-scale genome editing and design more accessible

The machine learning supply chain can be sabotaged with bad training data

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

Volunteers are needed to serve as corporate officers, committee chairs, and other positions

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

There are a number of ways to make your membership work for you

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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