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Foldable, ballistically launched SQUID drones could one day deploy to Mars

Momentum Dynamics' inductive energy transfer method gives city dwellers convenient charging without space-invading charging stations

Researchers can send 178 terabits/sec through a cable in the lab. The trick will be getting this bandwidth into the real world

ATI Industrial Automation brings its Force/Torque Sensor from the factory floor to the harsh environment of Mars’ surface.

Since the days of Nikola Tesla, engineers have tried to make it practical to transmit large amounts of electricity. A government-backed startup says they are close

Pretending to be the IRS, even in self-defense, turns out to be a bad idea

Game developers use motion-capture tech to teach Cruise’s autonomous vehicles to understand gestures

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Discover how easy it is to update your instrument to test the latest wireless standards.

"Thinking that autonomy was the destination was where I was just completely wrong," iRobot CEO says

Niels Ryberg Finsen pioneered therapeutic ultraviolet lamps and won himself a Nobel Prize

Participants will learn how to communicate with other engineers in a technical setting

A new model predicts the two-year lifespan of an app with 85% efficiency

Endoculus will make your next colonoscopy more robotic, if not more comfortable

Machine assembly has commenced, but this gigantic nuclear fusion experiment costing tens of billions of dollars is nowhere near starting up

Director of quantum hardware, Jim Clarke explains the company’s path toward “quantum practicality”

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AxiDraw plotters have become a new platform for tinkerers. This smaller model is perfect for experiments

IEEE established the Frances E. Allen Medal in her honor this year

The sensor, designed to support smart home technology, can run on a 9-volt battery

While coprocessors have taken many forms, the most important one today is the cloud


Without any batteries or electronics at all, this 88-milligram autonomous robotic insect can walk for hours

Independent evaluations of 41 rapid COVID-19 tests shows only one passes muster

A team led by IEEE Graduate Student Member Trushal Sardhara developed Coready! to keep people safe during the COVID-19 pandemic

The best way to avoid mass surveillance is to build systems that don’t collect personal data in the first place

Neglected by telecom providers for years, a Mexican village created its own cell service. And then Movistar came calling

Oxis Energy’s design promises outstanding energy density, manufacturability, and safety

A zinc-air battery made partly of Kevlar can be used to support weight, not just add to it

Sad bystander robots may encourage humans to step in to prevent robot abuse

Increasing concerns about chemical herbicides are giving a boost to the old idea of killing weeds with electricity

Could the next big coronavirus treatment breakthrough come in the form of an inhaler or a nasal spray instead of a shot or a pill?

Amazon Web Services and Blue Origin could mean the satellite constellation becomes part of a larger ecosystem

IEEE volunteers are fixing crucial COVID-19 hospital equipment

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Longan Vision’s two-camera system has been adapted to do temperature checks of people in public spaces

Spin Memory's vertical gate-all-around transistor could shrink MRAM and other embedded memories

The device, called Snatcher, could help robots quickly retrieve objects without getting too close to them

Researchers at Washington University in St. Louis made a fast energy storage device out of common building bricks

Now an IEEE Milestone, the data network was the first to use wireless communications

Startup Andela aims to bring the world's tech jobs to Africa--and the pandemic's push to remote work just might help its efforts

China places the final Beidou navigation system satellite into orbit

A phone case with legs is the accessory your life has been missing

It’s easy to measure greenhouse gases but hard to tell where the gases came from. Using satellite images and AI, we’re about to change that.

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Lucid Air has achieved a Holy Grail of EV technology—an electric car that sneers at "range anxiety"

Using machine-learning, AutoFoley determines what actions are taking place in a video clip and creates realistic sound effects

The April 2019 accident near Phoenix put plans on hold to further deploy battery energy storage systems across Arizona

Four best practices for schools to follow as they transition to online education during the pandemic

San Diego’s sensor-laden streetlights were supposed to save money and inspire entrepreneurs. Then the police started using their cameras and the pushback began

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