Data Centers Are Plagued by Wasteful Computing. Game Theory Could Help by Seyed Majid Zahedi on 2020-03-23 15:00 (#5145V) Data centers consume 205 billion kilowatt-hours of electricity annually

Video Friday: Robots Help Keep Medical Staff Safe at COVID-19 Hospital by Evan Ackerman on 2020-03-20 23:46 (#511BD) Your weekly selection of awesome robot videos
An Official WHO Coronavirus App Will Be a “Waze for COVID-19” by Eliza Strickland on 2020-03-20 20:54 (#51154) The WHO app collective is rushing to release an app that provides hyperlocal information
Build This 8-Bit Home Computer With Just 5 Chips by Matt Sarnoff on 2020-03-20 19:00 (#510XG) Combining old hacks like NTSC artifact colors with modern hardware makes a surprisingly capable machine
Coronavirus Pandemic: A Call to Action for the Robotics Community by Erico Guizzo on 2020-03-20 17:48 (#510XH) World-renowned medical robotics expert Guang-Zhong Yang explains what we can learn from this crisis to prepare for the next one
China Launches National Blockchain Network in 100 Cities by Nick Stockton on 2020-03-20 15:00 (#510XJ) Proponents say it will reduce the cost of doing blockchain-based business by 80 percent
19 Suggestions for Bored Engineers by Stephen Cass on 2020-03-20 13:40 (#510HA) Occupy your mind and hands you while keeping your distance
Galactic Energy Prepares Ceres-1 Rocket for First Launch by Andrew Jones on 2020-03-20 12:00 (#5108M) The June launch is just the start of the company’s grand plans for future spaceflight
Scientists Can Work From Home When the Lab Is in the Cloud by Tekla S. Perry on 2020-03-19 21:00 (#50Z9S) Strateos is building a cloud of robotic laboratories for chemists and biologists developing new drugs
How to Detect a Government's Hand Behind Internet Shutdowns by Jeremy Hsu on 2020-03-19 20:15 (#50Z9T) Researchers deploy both remote monitoring and human volunteers to investigate Internet shutdowns worldwide
It’s Too Late to Undo Climate Change. We Need Tech in Order to Adapt by Stacey Higginbotham on 2020-03-19 19:00 (#50Z03) A raft of companies are developing tech to help us live in a warmer world
Arm Flexible Access for Automotive Applications by ARM on 2020-03-19 18:30 (#50Z04) Experiment and Design Innovative Automotive Systems
Five Companies Using AI to Fight Coronavirus by Megan Scudellari on 2020-03-19 18:14 (#50Z9V) Deep learning models predict old and new drugs that might successfully treat COVID-19
IEEE Updates Its 2020–2025 Strategic Plan by IEEE Corporate Activities Strategic Planning on 2020-03-19 18:00 (#50Z05) The new goals support IEEE’s long-standing mission to advance technology for benefit of humanity
Companies Report a Rush of Electric Vehicle Battery Advances by Mark Anderson on 2020-03-19 15:00 (#50YNQ) Advances in anodes, cathodes, and electrolytes suggest tomorrow’s EV power train may be quite different from today’s
Musical Robot Learns to Sing, Has Album Dropping on Spotify by Evan Ackerman on 2020-03-19 14:00 (#50YNR) Georgia Tech’s marimba-playing robot can now compose and sing its own music
Stanford Makes Giant Soft Robot From Inflatable Tubes by Evan Ackerman on 2020-03-18 18:42 (#50X7T) This large-scale isoperimetric soft robot can safely change size and shape without tethers or pumps
Facebook Switches to New Timekeeping Service by Amy Nordrum on 2020-03-18 17:00 (#50X7V) The upgrade should help millions of the company’s servers keep more accurate time
New Photonics Engine Promises Low-Loss, Energy-Efficient Data Capacity for Hyperscale Data Centers by Lynne Peskoe-Yang on 2020-03-18 09:00 (#50XHC) A research team at Intel has developed a co-packaged optical processor that could bypass a fast-approaching bottleneck in server hardware
Can Astronauts Use GPS to Navigate on the Moon? NASA Scientists Say Yes by Ned Potter on 2020-03-17 22:00 (#50VW8) Scientists say lunar explorers could ‘see’ enough Earth-orbiting satellites to make an expensive new system unnecessary
Could Supercomputers and Rapid Treatment Trials Slow Down Coronavirus? by Mark Anderson on 2020-03-17 18:30 (#50V9H) Facing COVID-19 with a fast-paced technological arsenal is a high-risk, high-reward gamble
What Is a Robot? Rodney Brooks Offers an Answer—in Sonnet Form by Rodney Brooks on 2020-03-17 18:22 (#50V9J) We asked famed roboticist Rodney Brooks to explain his definition of robot. He sent us a sonnet
Snag With Linking Google’s Undersea Cable to Saint Helena Could Leave Telecom Monopoly Entrenched by Michael Koziol on 2020-03-17 15:30 (#50WXY) Without the planned Equiano branch, island residents won't have access to the cable’s promised data rates
Is Coronavirus Speeding the Adoption of Driverless Technology? by Philip E. Ross on 2020-03-17 06:00 (#50V9K) Neolix, of Beijing, claims the epidemic has boosted sales of its deliverybots
Intel’s Neuromorphic Nose Learns Scents in Just One Sniff by Samuel K. Moore on 2020-03-16 16:00 (#50SGY) Loihi chip programmed to mimic neural structure of mammalian scent organ
Echodyne Shows Off Its Cognitive Radar for Self-Driving Cars by Mark Harris on 2020-03-16 13:50 (#50S76) Echodyne's next-generation cognitive radar system is inspired by human vision
Designing the Test Strategy for Mission Critical Mesh Network Radios on 2020-03-16 13:30 (#50TZ8) Creating a robust RF test plan for tactical and other mission critical radio systems requires specialized techniques.
Video Friday: Autonomous Security Robot Meets Self-Driving Tesla by Evan Ackerman on 2020-03-13 21:30 (#50P78) Your weekly selection of awesome robot videos
Biotech Pioneer Is Making a Home Test Kit for Coronavirus by Eliza Strickland on 2020-03-13 20:52 (#50P79) Jonathan Rothberg of 4Catalyzer says his test will give readouts on a smartphone in 30 minutes
A Lithium-Ion Battery That Works Even When It’s on Fire by Sandy Ong on 2020-03-13 18:23 (#50NXB) Scientists from Stanford University have invented a “fireproof†solid-state electrolyte
Wanted: Rapid, Portable Tests for Coronavirus by Megan Scudellari on 2020-03-13 16:40 (#50NXC) New devices may diagnose the virus in as few as 5 minutes. But in some cases, the government has slowed their development
Li-Fi Scrubs Into the Operating Room by Dan Garisto on 2020-03-13 14:09 (#50NKE) The visible light communication scheme could offer hospitals a potentially faster, more reliable option than Wi-Fi
South Sudan Is Building Its Electric Grid Virtually From Scratch by Maria Gallucci on 2020-03-13 12:00 (#50NB6) The young nation in East-Central Africa is revitalizing its power sector after years of civil war
U.S. Women in Tech Are Paid Less Than Men—Except in Minnesota by Tekla S. Perry on 2020-03-12 20:00 (#50MGB) The gender pay gap persists across most of tech, but may have closed in cloud engineering, systems architecture, and network engineering
Multiphysics Modeling of Piezoelectric Sensors and Actuators on 2020-03-12 18:30 (#50MGC) Are you interested in modelling piezoelectric sensors and actuators
Nominations Sought for Marconi Society’s Young Scholar Award by Vint Cerf on 2020-03-12 18:00 (#50MGD) Past recipients have included creative, entrepreneurial, and technically savvy IEEE members
Big Data Helps Taiwan Fight Coronavirus by Emily Waltz on 2020-03-12 16:11 (#50M6N) How Taiwan used big data, new technologies and heavy handed government to control the spread of the coronavirus
Edge-AI Startup Gets $60-million, Preps for Mass Production by Samuel K. Moore on 2020-03-12 14:00 (#50KWW) Hailo sped from an idea to a 26-trillion-operations-per-second chip in three years
Autonomous Robots Are Helping Kill Coronavirus in Hospitals by Evan Ackerman on 2020-03-11 16:30 (#50JF4) Robots that can efficiently disinfect hospitals using UV light could slow coronavirus infections
Programming Without Code: The Rise of No-Code Software Development by Rina Diane Caballar on 2020-03-11 15:20 (#50J4P) Microsoft’s Power Apps, Oracle’s Visual Builder, and other tools let you create software without needing to code
Satellites and AI Monitor Chinese Economy’s Reaction to Coronavirus by Tekla S. Perry on 2020-03-10 21:00 (#50H1Q) Researchers at WeBank mine satellite, GPS, and social media data to conclude that the Chinese economy is well on the way to recovering from COVID-19
Gill Pratt on "Irrational Exuberance" in the Robocar World by Philip E. Ross on 2020-03-10 17:00 (#50GRC) Toyota's robocar chief says we don't know that we can't make fully self-driving cars, nor do we yet know how to do it
New Antenna Will Boost UAV Communication with Satellites by Michelle Hampson on 2020-03-10 15:00 (#50GDM) The antenna can switch between a general and broadside radiation pattern, the latter of which emits a signal directly above the UAV and into space
IEEE Leads Effort to Improve Protection of Your Employee Data by Kathy Pretz on 2020-03-09 18:00 (#50F5C) The problem: Consumer data protection laws don’t cover employee records
Skin-like, Flexible Sensor Lets Robots Detect Us by Michelle Hampson on 2020-03-09 16:31 (#50F5D) A new sensor allows robots to accurately detect the speed and angle of someone's approach
Flight of the GermFalcon: How a Potential Coronavirus-Killing Airplane Sterilizer Was Born by Samuel K. Moore on 2020-03-09 15:51 (#50EWP) Dimer UVC’s ultraviolet germ zapper took some very hands-on design work
Swarm of Robots Forms Complex Shapes Without Centralized Control by Evan Ackerman on 2020-03-09 14:59 (#50EWQ) By talking only to each other, these mobile robots cooperate to make patterns and shapes
Video Friday: NASA's Curiosity Mars Rover Captures 1.8 Billion-Pixel Panorama by Evan Ackerman on 2020-03-06 21:37 (#50BYF) Your weekly selection of awesome robot videos
Coronavirus Is Triggering Fear of Going to Work by Tekla S. Perry on 2020-03-06 21:00 (#50BYG) A survey by Blind shows fear of the workplace is steadily going up and productivity down, thanks to coronavirus
Software and Genetic Sequencing Track the Coronavirus's Path by Emily Waltz on 2020-03-06 20:15 (#50BYH) Online tools such as Nextstrain map the movement of the new coronavirus based on genetic mutations