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University of Maryland engineer wants to equip ambulances with medical robots enhanced by machine learning to help trauma patients

An Australian research team is using tech to monitor global climate change’s assault on the world’s largest living organism

IEEE is promoting engineering education and access to the latest technologies through its Africa initiative

Commercial operations in Rwanda prove the company can deliver emergency blood packs in minutes, rather than hours


The company behind the Laundroid robot folds itself, but that's not the end for laundry folding robots (yet)

The IEEE Fellow talks about her career and her efforts to inspire other women to enter the field

With the new system, every student is scored based on how likely they are to finish their courses

Belle used a brute-force approach to best other computers and humans

Terrestrial 5G networks will support high-altitude balloons and drones, and could someday merge with them

Photographs show key moments of the effort to land on the moon

At the Brooklyn 5G summit, experts said terahertz waves could fix some of the problems that may arise with millimeter-wave networks

A single Wi-Fi 6 access point can deliver high-speed, low-latency service to hundreds of users at once

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Four companies set the pace with scheduled launches over the next two years

Taking the temperature of engineering employment after the first few months of 2019

Software and microelectronics fabrication techniques let research identify powerful immune cells


In their spare time, a Massachusetts couple programmed a system that they say accurately identifies Rembrandts 90 percent of the time

NASA has fixed Robonaut and is nearly ready to send it back to the International Space Station

Caffeine makes perovskite photovoltaics more stable, enhancing their commercial potential

An elaborate cooling system is designed to protect the space probe through sizzling flybys


Companies looking for cybersecurity engineers might do better in Australia, France, Israel, the Netherlands, and the U.K., instead of the U.S.

A slowing rate of improvement hints at a looming asymptote, at least on a population-wide basis

With today’s official launch in Ghana, Zipline has vastly expanded the largest drone-delivery network in the world

A brain-computer interface that records signals in the motor cortex can synthesize speech from activity in a user’s brain

IEEE mourns the loss of the following members

The newly elected government will inherit a floundering AUD $51 billion broadband network that’s providing slower service to fewer properties than planned

China’s first-mover advantage in deploying 5G networks capable of transforming national economies has major implications for the United States

A self-taught engineer builds Tesla coils for fun and profit

The automaker’s new wheels-eye-view feature gets rid of the ultimate blind spot: the point where the rubber meets the road

An ink stain on the floor led to a lifetime of building micro devices and sensors and macro companies

IEEE-USA book offers practical ways to become a better communicator

Materials scientist Ichiro Takeuchi uses machine learning-based discovery to help develop new, alternative materials

A University of Maryland-developed microscopy technique could eliminate the “surgery” aspect of LASIK

Humans are sometimes criticized for seeing the world in black and white, but maybe AI should learn the same trick

Colossus can carry heavy hoses into spots that are too dangerous for human firefighters to enter

Look beyond major metropolitan areas to smaller U.S. cities with relatively few applicants for many openings

Today's unseen digital laborers resemble the human who powered the 18th century Mechanical Turk

A tensor processing unit with a Raspberry Pi–style form factor brings machine learning to makers

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Proposed legislation lays out sensible security guidelines, though there’s room for
 improvement

Samarium can nearly double the performance of piezoelectric crystals used in many sensors

Leaders from Momentus and McAfee to speak at the annual event

Addiction, OCD, PTSD and depression: All of these conditions might be improved by stimulating one deep brain structure

While communication system designers are preoccupied with readying millimeter wave (mmWave) for 5G, experiments are underway on terahertz bands for indoor wireless, localization studios, and gigabyte Wi-Fi networks

The IEEE Vision, Innovation, and Challenges Summit culminates in a ceremony honoring tech pioneers

Georgia Tech's augmented-reality interface gives control over complex robots to the people who need them

A pair of autonomous, free-flying robots will be on their way to the ISS

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