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Budapest’s Electric Underground Railway Is Still Running After More Than 120 Years
The vintage 1896 line, the first of its kind in Europe, is now an IEEE Milestone
The Coronavirus Outbreak Is Curbing China's CO2 Emissions
An energy analyst describes his efforts to track trends in China's emissions during the pandemic
2020 Top 10 High Tech Cars
This year, carmakers get serious about electric cars

COVID-19 Related Research and Technologies Free to Access in IEEE Xplore
This collection provides additional rights for all types of reuse
Lessons Learned by NYC Makers Producing Personal Protective Equipment for Medics
Focus on what health workers actually need, rather than what you think you can invent
Programmable Material Could Speed Production of Photonic Integrated Circuits
The advance could lead to a new era of reconfigurable photonic devices
IndieBio to Give 8 Coronavirus-Tech Startups at Least $250,000 Each
Y Combinator, Plug and Play, and StartX accelerators also fast-track efforts to help entrepreneurs develop technologies to address the pandemic
To Answer Dire Shortages, This Healthcare Team Designed, 3D-Printed, and Tested Their Own COVID-19 Swabs in One Week
The NYC-based group is now producing and distributing 2,000 specialty test swabs per day and plans to release the specs
Video Friday: Qoobo the Headless Robot Cat Is Back
Your weekly selection of awesome robot videos
IEEE’s Response to the COVID-19 Pandemic
The health and safety of the IEEE community is the organization’s first priority
COVID-19 Makes It Clear That Broadband Access Is a Human Right
The guarantees made during the pandemic should be made permanent
What the Right To Repair Movement Gets Wrong
Repair should be an option not a mandate
Wine Is Going Out of Style—in France
A careful look at data from the French census shows that a key element in French culture is withering on the vine
IEEE Standards Association Launches a Platform for Open Source Collaboration
The platform is for developers who want to create and test their code
Scientists Use Stem Cells to Treat COVID-19 Patients in China
Several experts express skepticism of the trial’s early results, suggest resources would be better spent exploring other treatments
New Approach Could Protect Control Systems From Hackers
This algorithm creates “background noise” during data transmission to alert officials to hacking
Upgraded Google Glass Helps Autistic Kids “See” Emotions
A wearable for kids on the autism spectrum provides behavioral therapy via augmented reality
Halting COVID-19: The Benefits and Risks of Digital Contact Tracing
Digital contact tracing using mobile phones can help stop the spread of COVID-19, but could also put us all under surveillance
“Brita Filter for Blood” Aims to Remove Harmful Cytokines for COVID-19 Patients
In some coronavirus cases, the body’s immune system begins to attack itself; a new technology could counteract the harmful effects
Graphene Solar Thermal Film Could Be a New Way to Harvest Renewable Energy
A novel energy-efficient metamaterial can efficiently absorb sunlight while limiting blackbody heat-loss to almost zero
Here’s Where and How We Think China Will Land on Mars
China’s 2020 HX-1 Mars mission will draw on previous lunar explorations and human spaceflights
Topological Photonics: What It Is and Why We Need It
Lasers, chips, and quantum circuitry could all benefit from this obscure phenomenon
When the Most Important Technology Is Teamwork
Four Australians developed a new kind of blood-glucose sensor in just three months
Show The World You Can Write A Cool Program Inside A Single Tweet
The BBC Micro Bot will try to run anything you can code in 280 characters or less
PAM4 Gigabit Ethernet Electrical SERDES Analysis, Debug and Compliance Testing
BER analysis of 400 GbE SERDES
IEEE Plots a Path for Wide Bandgap Semiconductors Used in the Power Industry
A new road map offers a strategic look at the technology, which promises smaller, faster, and more reliable devices
Pop-Up Open Source Medical Hardware Projects Won’t Stop Coronavirus, but Might Be Useful Anyway. Here’s Why
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
Here’s a Blueprint for a Practical Quantum Computer
Constructing a universal quantum computer will be hard but not impossible

Enevate’s Silicon Anodes Could Yield EV Batteries That Run 400 km on a 5-Minute Charge
The porous mostly-silicon films can hold more lithium ions and move them around super-fast. And they're cheap.
How the Internet Can Cope With the Explosion of Demand for “Right Now” Data During the Coronavirus Outbreak
Startup Subspace emerged from stealth early to tackle the low-latency problem exacerbated by everyone working and learning remotely because of COVID-19
Data Centers Are Plagued by Wasteful Computing. Game Theory Could Help
Data centers consume 205 billion kilowatt-hours of electricity annually

Video Friday: Robots Help Keep Medical Staff Safe at COVID-19 Hospital
Your weekly selection of awesome robot videos
An Official WHO Coronavirus App Will Be a “Waze for COVID-19”
The WHO app collective is rushing to release an app that provides hyperlocal information
Build This 8-Bit Home Computer With Just 5 Chips
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
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
Proponents say it will reduce the cost of doing blockchain-based business by 80 percent
19 Suggestions for Bored Engineers
Occupy your mind and hands you while keeping your distance
Galactic Energy Prepares Ceres-1 Rocket for First Launch
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
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
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
A raft of companies are developing tech to help us live in a warmer world
Arm Flexible Access for Automotive Applications
Experiment and Design Innovative Automotive Systems
Five Companies Using AI to Fight Coronavirus
Deep learning models predict old and new drugs that might successfully treat COVID-19
IEEE Updates Its 2020–2025 Strategic Plan
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
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
Georgia Tech’s marimba-playing robot can now compose and sing its own music
Stanford Makes Giant Soft Robot From Inflatable Tubes
This large-scale isoperimetric soft robot can safely change size and shape without tethers or pumps
Facebook Switches to New Timekeeping Service
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
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
Scientists say lunar explorers could ‘see’ enough Earth-orbiting satellites to make an expensive new system unnecessary
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