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Python rules the roost, but Cobol gets a pandemic bump

Find the programming languages that are most important to you

Electric pulses open airways and could combat deadly “cytokine storm”

Display the size of a 32-inch screen generates the illusion of a 122-inch screen

Bored kids at home? These free, printable worksheets will help kids learn about robots

Mike Schroepfer explains Facebook’s AI strategy against hate speech and election interference

Electric utilities reveal what worked and what didn’t in COVID-19 responses

It’s time to throw out the old Moore’s Law metric


Explorers stranded at the North Pole in 1928 may have had their SOS calls blocked by solar storms and radio dead zones

Threat actors are closely monitoring public events happening around the world, and quickly employing those themes in attack vectors to take advantage of the opportunity.

Compared to previous models, the new machine learning algorithm proves to be more accurate and precise, which could help better support humanitarian efforts

The fact that Twitter direct messages are not encrypted gives victims yet another thing to worry about as they regain control of their accounts

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New machine learning training approach could help under-resourced academic labs catch up with big tech

Compressed sensing could make the process 10 times more efficient

It may not have changed everything as promised, but the Segway was still far ahead of its time

The IEEE senior member built robots for Walt Disney Imagineering and Lucasfilm

It aims to protect the U.S. bulk-power system, but local electricity networks are just as vulnerable

Minuscule camera streams video from tiny robots and live bugs

Tune into this webinar to learn more about 3D cable modeling. The models can be used to virtually test, design, and optimize cable systems based on accurate multiphysics simulation techniques.

Researchers in Germany uncover some unanticipated vulnerabilities

After a tumultuous, two-decade development cycle, microelectromechanical RF switches are finally being used in wireless base stations, and military radars and radios. Are smartphones next?

The technology boosts light-cell efficiency, enables high-res Lidar using commercial camera lenses

Stay-at-home orders triggered a boom in the use of consumer technology; that trend will likely bring continued good news for the industry

One small step for cells, one giant leap for science

Everything you need to know about high-speed digital design.

The 800G fiber optic demonstration was the first of its kind in a live network

With IBM’s “7-nm and Beyond” research initiative completed, it's time to assess how its innovations have helped chipmakers keep up with the demands of Moore’s Law

Hello Robot's Stretch wants to reinvent how mobile manipulators perform tasks in home environments

Join SANS and AWS Marketplace to learn how implementing an SDN can enhance visibility and control across multiple virtual private clouds (VPCs) in your network

DARPA is running a bug bounty aimed at further hardening new malware-proof architectures

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Software-defined radio and cheap hardware are shaking up a hobby long associated with engineering

NASA team pioneers AI algorithm to help Mars rover and Titan drone drill for astrobiological evidence

New company aims to create better workplaces by putting employees in others' shoes

Economist Lisa D. Cook’s research shows that African American patent levels didn’t recover to their per capita 1899 peak until 2010

Antinoise tech quiets the insides of headphones, cars and airplanes. Your house is next

An ARPA-E project uses data modeling to help power grid operators deal with the winds of change

A robot arm that you can bend

Nearly three years after Hurricane Maria, the island's grid remains vulnerable and brittle

Mistrust and misunderstanding pose dual challenges to contact tracing apps in the United States

Through distributed computing networks, millions of independent PCs around the world are contributing to finding a treatment for the global pandemic

Chocolate is the latest material to be colorized by nanotechnology instead of chemical dyes

One project from a joint USC, UC Berkeley team takes a code-centric approach to bring federated learning to the wireless edge

Members of the Kenyatta University Student Branch have produced hundreds of machines

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A flock of swifts and a ballbot mobile manipulator are the newest robots from the German company

Tech professionals weigh in on what they want—and expect—from tech companies post-Coronavirus

Commercial satellite-imaging companies are set to benefit from the upcoming changes to regulations