Budapest’s Electric Underground Railway Is Still Running After More Than 120 Years by Joanna Goodrich on 2020-03-31 18:00 (#51GZ8) 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 by Maria Gallucci on 2020-03-31 17:47 (#51GZ9) An energy analyst describes his efforts to track trends in China's emissions during the pandemic
2020 Top 10 High Tech Cars by Lawrence Ulrich on 2020-03-31 14:00 (#51GA7) This year, carmakers get serious about electric cars

COVID-19 Related Research and Technologies Free to Access in IEEE Xplore by IEEE on 2020-03-30 23:06 (#51FFF) This collection provides additional rights for all types of reuse
Lessons Learned by NYC Makers Producing Personal Protective Equipment for Medics by Stephen Cass on 2020-03-30 17:37 (#51F7R) Focus on what health workers actually need, rather than what you think you can invent
Programmable Material Could Speed Production of Photonic Integrated Circuits by Charles Q. Choi on 2020-03-30 15:53 (#51EYA) The advance could lead to a new era of reconfigurable photonic devices
IndieBio to Give 8 Coronavirus-Tech Startups at Least $250,000 Each by Tekla S. Perry on 2020-03-30 11:47 (#51EEK) 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 by Megan Scudellari on 2020-03-28 15:42 (#51CR2) 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 by Evan Ackerman on 2020-03-27 19:37 (#51BPG) Your weekly selection of awesome robot videos
IEEE’s Response to the COVID-19 Pandemic by Toshio Fukuda on 2020-03-27 18:00 (#51BPH) 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 by Stacey Higginbotham on 2020-03-27 15:00 (#51BC3) The guarantees made during the pandemic should be made permanent
What the Right To Repair Movement Gets Wrong by G. Pascal Zachary on 2020-03-26 21:00 (#51A7E) Repair should be an option not a mandate
Wine Is Going Out of Style—in France by Vaclav Smil on 2020-03-26 19:00 (#519YB) 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 by IEEE on 2020-03-26 18:00 (#519KQ) The platform is for developers who want to create and test their code
Scientists Use Stem Cells to Treat COVID-19 Patients in China by Amy Nordrum on 2020-03-26 17:05 (#519KR) 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 by Michelle Hampson on 2020-03-26 15:20 (#519KS) This algorithm creates “background noise†during data transmission to alert officials to hacking
Upgraded Google Glass Helps Autistic Kids “See” Emotions by Nick Haber on 2020-03-26 15:00 (#519KT) 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 by Emily Waltz on 2020-03-25 20:30 (#5186E) 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 by Mark Anderson on 2020-03-25 20:02 (#5186F) 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 by John Boyd on 2020-03-25 16:51 (#517XV) 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 by Andrew Jones on 2020-03-25 16:13 (#517XW) 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 by Charles Q. Choi on 2020-03-25 15:00 (#5186G) Lasers, chips, and quantum circuitry could all benefit from this obscure phenomenon
When the Most Important Technology Is Teamwork by Mark Pesce on 2020-03-24 19:00 (#51680) 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 by Stephen Cass on 2020-03-24 19:00 (#51681) 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 on 2020-03-24 18:30 (#51682) BER analysis of 400 GbE SERDES
IEEE Plots a Path for Wide Bandgap Semiconductors Used in the Power Industry by Kathy Pretz on 2020-03-24 18:00 (#51683) 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 by Lucas Laursen on 2020-03-24 17:00 (#51684) 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 by Richard Versluis on 2020-03-24 15:00 (#515XX) 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 by Prachi Patel on 2020-03-23 18:00 (#514G6) 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 by Michael Koziol on 2020-03-23 16:30 (#5145T) 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 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