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A new report finds a “litany of failures | Continue reading
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Safer reactors designed in the U.S. and Europe make their power grid debuts in China | Continue reading
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Parrot reenters the consumer drone space with the innovative new Anafi | Continue reading
The first configurable graphics processor opened the door to a machine-learning revolution | Continue reading
This chip put a radio into countless consumer products | Continue reading
IBM's new chip is designed to do both high-precision learning and low-precision inference across the three main flavors of deep learning | Continue reading
Scientists have been able to move atoms around for 30 years, but moving molecules has proven much more difficult | Continue reading
Ernesto Blanco came up with a workable design in 1962, but it never went into production | Continue reading
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Electrical engineer and artist Jim Campbell explains the technology behind the highest public art installation in the world, and the challenge of avoiding window washers | Continue reading
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UC Berkeley and CMU researchers demonstrate dynamic walking on stepping stones | Continue reading
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Apparently, building giant solar-powered aircraft comes with equally sizable challenges | Continue reading
At conferences, maybe it’s a good thing if some engineers don’t understand your entire presentation | Continue reading
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Artificial intelligence could quickly schedule beams and configure channels in future wireless networks | Continue reading
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Axed engineers say IBM isn't always smart about artificial intelligence | Continue reading
Researchers wager on a possible Deepfake video scandal during the 2018 U.S. midterm elections | Continue reading
At the IEEE Rebooting Computing Conference, deep thinking about computing led to some wild ideas | Continue reading
Active silicon interposers could make for smaller, better computers but the networks need to mesh | Continue reading
At an Alabama power plant, FuelCell Energy and ExxonMobil aim to capture 90 percent of CO2 | Continue reading
Managers think their projects are “too big to fail,” and believe future scientific progress will excuse any delays or cost overruns | Continue reading
A “piano-flute” is just one of the crazy instruments you can build with the NSynth open-source deep-learning project | Continue reading
DRAGON can change its shape to move through complex environments and even manipulate objects | Continue reading
Army researchers use a common laser engraver to make inductors and other complex shapes | Continue reading
California drivers can now opt for e-paper license plates that display custom messages | Continue reading
It's a slow-driving pod, but that should be good enough for corporate campuses | Continue reading
The classic operating system turns 40, and its progeny abound | Continue reading