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IBM’s Call for Code names three winners and promises support for digital tools designed to aid in the coronavirus response

With over 3.5 million downloads in the first five days, the app can speed notification of people exposed to COVID-19

One of her goals is to make speaker panels and conferences more inclusive

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Clear Blue Technologies receives $3.5 million CAD deal to build out solar-powered cell networks in the Congo, Ghana, and Nigeria

Cybersecurity job openings explode, while the job market gets tougher for Web developers and Ruby experts

Members in Spain and Switzerland are developing software for FLIR cameras and building their own versions to protect people’s privacy

Teleoperated robots can help perform patient care tasks while keeping healthcare workers safe

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Remote teaching tools from Keysight

As companies re-open, employees may don wearable tech to prevent the spread of COVID-19

The Rhaegal cargo drone pivots to new possible military missions under a U.S. Air Force contract

An Indiana startup is retrofitting five pickup trucks with its novel hydrogen-producing system

Popov may have been first but he didn’t patent his inventions or try to commercialize them

“Deep-speare” crafted Shakespearean verse that most readers couldn’t distinguish from human-written poems

Mathias Goyen describes how the pandemic is altering the medical-tech landscape

Deepfake technologies: What they are, what they do, and how they’re made

AMD and Intel are leaning on chiplets to boost performance; CEA-Leti shows just how far the approach can go

South-central Washington state is vibrant, green, and home to 212 million liters of radioactive waste

A next-gen perovskite solar cell is now more durable than before, with conversion efficiencies to rival silicon panels

Infusion of $51 million will fund Mojo Vision’s next generation of augmented-reality lens prototypes, plus new batteries, software, and manufacturing processes

IEEE Fellow Satyandra K. Gupta's team is perfecting a disinfecting robot while practicing social distancing in the lab

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New technique can help establish links in a single shot

Scientists have spent three decades cleaning up the Hanford Site’s 177 giant tanks of radioactive sludge. And they’re just getting started

A new social robot designed for children wants to help promote social, emotional, and cognitive development

Richard Versluis, the system architect, describes Europe’s first public-access quantum-computing platform

Built in about 24 hours, this robot is undergoing in-hospital testing for coronavirus disinfection

Researchers from DeepMind and Harvard are using a virtual rat to see what neural networks can teach us about biology

Open source offerings may nudge commercial voting machine vendors in the right direction but aren’t ready to replace them

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Wireless Research Handbook: 3rd Edition

A DIY experiment at IBM Research–Europe became a valuable tool


73 volunteers investigate the consequences of government restrictions on poor and marginalized communities

Engineers and computer scientists consider whether algorithms could supercharge COVID-19 testing

Ten years after decommissioning the previous backup to the country’s global satellite fleet, government agencies are taking steps to create a new one

Grid operators in Minnesota, North Dakota, and Wisconsin should take extra precautions against solar "weather"

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Landers that generate their own pads as they touch down would mean faster, cheaper, and safer planetary exploration

Shimon can now listen and improvise in real-time for dynamic rap battles with humans

AI-designed signals created by channel autoencoders vastly outperform signals created by engineers


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Robotics for Infections Diseases consortium explores the role of robots in the coronavirus pandemic

Prophets of doom held that looming shortages of oil would plunge us back into a Paleolithic standard of living. What’s interesting is why the prophecies were accepted—and whether we’ve learned anything at all from it

Plans are to scale production for up to 50,000 face visors per day

A 9-minute nationwide action provided an extreme test in stabilizing the grid

Photonic topological insulators and terahertz waves could together deliver data at ultra-fast speeds

The AV industry has had to reset expectations as it shifts its focus to Level 4 autonomy

Inexpensive, pocket-size systems are surprising and ubiquitous tech stalwarts