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The story of the lithium-ion battery tells much about the increasingly global nature of innovation

Researchers developed a chemicals sensor that can identify trace amounts of explosive substances, such as TNT, in real-time

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A new encryption technique developed at MIT can help ensure nuclear weapons inspectors aren’t fooled and military secrets don’t leak out

As transistors become smaller, problems with heat dissipation and power consumption are driving the industry toward specialization

Does the U.S. need its own giant silicon foundry to protect itself from China’s ambitions?

The gentle, low-temperature technique prints electric tattoos on skin and transistors on paper

Could lightweight electric vertical takeoff and landing aircraft be a solution for urban congestion?

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For the first time, NASA's Astrobee robot has demonstrated autonomous free flight in space

A Facebook executive challenges the Arm processor community to create tech building blocks for augmented reality glasses

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Serial hijackers routinely steal IP addresses to pilfer data and launch attacks. Extra-trees classifiers could sniff out these hackers sooner

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In their search for killer apps, robotics companies should look at the amazing evolution of computers

Notre Dame alumni are developing speakers that can conform to small spaces

Maryland researchers investigate new 4D printing techniques to control stem cell cardiomyogenesis

Researchers in Brazil are developing a drone that scouts for evidence—and want to use its footage to reconstruct crime scenes

Stuart Russell’s new book, Human Compatible, explores ways to ensure that superintelligent machines don’t pose a danger

Researchers in Switzerland and the U.S. have a non-destructive technique that can reverse engineer an entire chip without damaging it

Stevens proof-of-concept demonstration successfully leverages quantum properties to secure the Internet of Things

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A new report finds that deepfake software is still prohibitively hard to use, but that may not be true for much longer

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John Deere, the nearly 200-year-old tractor manufacturer, now considers itself a software company

Understanding RF inductor specs

University of Delaware researchers have developed a “metasurface” atop a silicon chip that behaves as a lens for possible use in photonics chips

New whitepaper explains how augmented machines and augmented humans will represent physical reality

IMU and INS/GNSS provide more precision on how to achieve the best performance for manned and driverless racing cars

The booming sector of “affective computing” relies on collecting massive amounts of behavioral and emotional data

AI beats doctors in early detection of certain eye diseases

In 2022, a robotic NASA spacecraft will pay a service call to Landsat 7

The hardware prototypes for beamforming and beamsteering in 5G mmWave networks encompass large antenna arrays and narrow beam patterns. That calls for highly adaptable platforms for implementing algorithms to design and test a variety of channel configurations

Skydio crams all its autonomous magic into a sleek consumer drone that costs under $1k

Is it possible to process encrypted data when you don’t trust either the software or the hardware involved?

Rigid IT departments and job-hopping data scientists are just two of the challenges that make implementing machine learning harder than you might think

Anupam Tetu had done everything to pursue his engineering dreams, but his student loan weighed him down

Machine Learning on Arm Cortex-M MCUs

A newly-launched project will measure mercury’s impact on indigenous species, providing key data needed for recovery

Job postings from a NASA contractor suggest that a new humanoid robot is under development

Belgian startup Magnax has found a way to mass-produce the axial-flux motor

Akademik Lomonosov, Russia’s floating nuclear power plant, will power up in the Arctic in December

The science team behind China's Chang’e-4 spacecraft also wanted to send tortoises to the moon's far side

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Using remote heat-sensing, researchers are creating a system that autonomously controls the temperature within cars and homes

Detect galactic hydrogen using roof flashing, a paint-thinner can, and a software-defined radio

The early electronic synthesizer allowed for a wide, weird range of evocative sounds

Fujifilm Sonosite partners with AI2 Incubator to develop a better method for finding veins

The world would have to begin steeply reducing emissions now to avoid a 1.5-degree rise in temperature by 2050