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Learn about the Hall Effect and its use in characterizing new materials.

A drone delivery system that covers two countries in Africa could quickly distribute critical medical supplies in the United States

A deluge of COVID-19 testing options will soon flood the market. Here's how they work

European countries are using mobile data to measure public compliance with social distancing orders

What can engineers do when their work doesn't align with their personal values of creating a better world?

After raising $43 million, Sourcegraph CEO Quinn Slack shares his vision for the startup's popular universal code search tool

The virus now challenging the world demands that we rethink how to manage our digital privacy

Chinese startup UDI deploys self-driving vans to deliver food to lockdown areas

Learn more about Rohde & Schwarz oscilloscopes and measurements on IoT devices

It’s 10,000 times more accurate than the gyros in your cell phone, but costs just US $50

Ford, GM, and others are making low-cost, simplified versions of critical medical equipment to aid in the coronavirus response

Learn how to measure the control loop stability of switch-mode power supplies to achieve an excellent performance and to get confidence in the design.

New technologies track the COVID-19 outbreak via sewage sampling, embed antiviral nanoparticles into fabric via ultrasound, and more

Moxi performs repetitive chores so that hospital staff can spend their time doing more important tasks

Pilots on reconnaissance missions could immediately call in their findings

Superfast transmission speeds could prove useful in data centers and for chip-to-chip connections

Master the complexities of 5G.

The vintage 1896 line, the first of its kind in Europe, is now an IEEE Milestone

An energy analyst describes his efforts to track trends in China's emissions during the pandemic

This year, carmakers get serious about electric cars


This collection provides additional rights for all types of reuse

Focus on what health workers actually need, rather than what you think you can invent

The advance could lead to a new era of reconfigurable photonic devices

Y Combinator, Plug and Play, and StartX accelerators also fast-track efforts to help entrepreneurs develop technologies to address the pandemic

The NYC-based group is now producing and distributing 2,000 specialty test swabs per day and plans to release the specs

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The health and safety of the IEEE community is the organization’s first priority

The guarantees made during the pandemic should be made permanent

Repair should be an option not a mandate

A careful look at data from the French census shows that a key element in French culture is withering on the vine

The platform is for developers who want to create and test their code

Several experts express skepticism of the trial’s early results, suggest resources would be better spent exploring other treatments

This algorithm creates “background noise” during data transmission to alert officials to hacking

A wearable for kids on the autism spectrum provides behavioral therapy via augmented reality

Digital contact tracing using mobile phones can help stop the spread of COVID-19, but could also put us all under surveillance

In some coronavirus cases, the body’s immune system begins to attack itself; a new technology could counteract the harmful effects

A novel energy-efficient metamaterial can efficiently absorb sunlight while limiting blackbody heat-loss to almost zero

China’s 2020 HX-1 Mars mission will draw on previous lunar explorations and human spaceflights

Lasers, chips, and quantum circuitry could all benefit from this obscure phenomenon

Four Australians developed a new kind of blood-glucose sensor in just three months

The BBC Micro Bot will try to run anything you can code in 280 characters or less

BER analysis of 400 GbE SERDES

A new road map offers a strategic look at the technology, which promises smaller, faster, and more reliable devices

Quick fixes that don’t scale probably won’t make much difference to this pandemic, but they might get the ball rolling for the next one

Constructing a universal quantum computer will be hard but not impossible


The porous mostly-silicon films can hold more lithium ions and move them around super-fast. And they're cheap.

Startup Subspace emerged from stealth early to tackle the low-latency problem exacerbated by everyone working and learning remotely because of COVID-19