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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

Universities, governments as well as venture capitalists and crowdfunds have money to give

The proliferation of apps like Waze, Apple Maps, and Google Maps is causing chaos




And women come on strong in Hired’s top ten most inspiring tech leaders

The market for electric heat pumps is growing but still faces obstacles

The golden noise system for technology development and circuit designs at advanced process nodes

University of Maryland researchers developed a technique to drive teams of bacteria to work together autonomously

The CryoHub project in Europe will combine cryogenic renewable energy storage with refrigeration

Little swarm robots that can't do much on their own can use their random behavior to accomplish tasks like locomotion

If the IT industry can halve its carbon emissions in each of the next three decades, it can help the planet reach net zero by 2050

Startup plans to offer stack of developer tools and middleware that will create value from nascent quantum computers

Chair of IEEE Standards Association working group explains what the organization is doing to help ensure the technology is used ethically

FarmWise is using AI and robotics to enhance farming efficiency by taking care of each plant individually

The OpenAI project demonstrated "emergent behavior" by the AI players, including surfing

Cerebras aims to speed deep learning at supercomputing centers

Google, Netflix, Airbnb, and SpaceX top rankings of tech workers’ favorite companies

Sun-soaked Egypt’s first utility-scale PV power plant—one of the world’s largest solar installations—is coming online

The Danish company is announcing a powerful new member of its collaborative robots family

Tips for expat engineers who want to engage with their countries of origin

MIT researchers list the energy storage technologies that could enable a 100 percent renewable grid

Methane-tracking satellites named Claire and Iris pressure oil and gas producers to act

Maryland’s Quantum Technology Center will translate quantum physics research into innovative technologies.

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The platform being developed at the Chinese University of Hong Kong aims to automate common assessment tests

An analysis by Google researchers reveals how the company's engineers manage code coverage across one billion lines of code