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  • Misplaced? Jeff Bezos pledges 7.7% of his wealth to climate change

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    Jeff Bezos contributed $10 billion to his new Earth Fund, which could help fight climate change in the future. (Image Credit: Pablo Martínez Monsiváis/AP) Jeff Bezos, CEO of Amazon, may have just shifted the fight against climate change by pledg...
    • 3 Mar 2020
  • NASA's Katherine Johnson Leaves a Pioneering Legacy that will last for Ages

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    Katherine Johnson at NASA Langley Research Center in 1980. The mathematician's 35-year career at NASA helped put Alan Shepard and John Glenn into orbit around the earth and guided Neil Armstrong, Buzz Aldrin, and Michael Collins to the moon and b...
    • 25 Feb 2020
  • Mitsubishi’s new LED skylights simulate natural sunlight to combat office depression

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    The Misola LED skylight uses displays to mimic how the sun moves across the sky. At first glance, Mitsubishi’s latest product looks like a normal skylight. (Image credit: Mitsubishi) Let’s face it, being an office worker has its downsides. There...
    • 19 Feb 2020
  • The Startups Fighting Back Against Extreme Fires

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    Ladera Tech fights against bushfires with first environmentally friendly fire retardantBrushfire treated with Fortify prevents the fire from spreading (Image credit: Ladera Tech) Necessity is the mother of invention. Crisis spurs action. Put it ...
    • 29 Jan 2020
  • “Working backwards” approach will help transform ideas

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    Amazon’s “working backwards” approach helped to transform the company into an online retail giant. (Image Credit: GETTY Images) Often I’ve seen projects start with little planning. 'Design by the seat of the pants,' I think is the cliché...
    • 21 Jan 2020
  • Walmart to deploy robots to 650 stores in the U.S.

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    Walmart will be adding more robots for item inventory scanning to 650 of its stores by this Summer. (Image Credit: Walmart) We marvel at our creations. Celebrate them. Never mourn our losses. This looks like it’ll be another cultural shift like when ...
    • 15 Jan 2020
  • Toyota teams up with Bjarke Ingels to build a ‘city of the future’

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    Toyota’s concept for a smart home (Image credit: Toyota) Over the past few years, Toyota has been working on improving smart cars, but their latest project will go beyond cars. They’re aiming to create a new smart city in Japan. The automaker is...
    • 10 Jan 2020
  • Samsung’s Artificial Human to be revealed at CES 2020

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    Samsung’s Neon, an artificial human, will be showcased at CES 2020 in Las Vegas on January 7th, 2020. (Image Credit: Samsung NEON Twitter)  I suspect artificial intelligence (AI) will become the most important technology of the 20’s. Doubling pr...
    • 2 Jan 2020
  • 3D printing batteries and what it could mean in the future

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    One of the key advancements in the 21st-century technological world is the lithium-ion battery. These energy packs make it possible to power and operate mobile phones, electric cars, laptops, health care devices, robots and remote sensors. Earlier th...
    • 31 Dec 2019
  • Engineering Salaries Remain High for Those with Bachelors and Masters Degrees

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    Depending on the major, engineers in their respective disciplines can earn an average annual salary from $61,750 to $115,500 based on a report from the University of Michigan. (Image credit: Pexels)  According to a 2017/2018 report released by ...
    • 23 Dec 2019
  • John Carmack of Doom Fame Leaves Facebook’s Oculus for Personal AI Projects

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    Carmack is stepping down from his position as Oculus CTO to allocate more time to his AGI (Artificial General Intelligence) endeavor. (Image credit: Flikr via Wikipedia)  John Carmack recently announced his decision to leave his position at Fac...
    • 18 Nov 2019
  • Google launches open-source secure chip design project called OpenTitan

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    The project aims to make chips that are secure enough to be used in data centers, storage, and computer peripherals. (Image credit: Google) With so much exposure to technology, we’d like to think we’re savvy enough to avoid cyber attacks. But as...
    • 14 Nov 2019
  • Microsoft Announces Cloud Quantum Computing Service with Azure Quantum

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    Azure Quantum is an open cloud computing service that will provide developers with access to several quantum computers. (Image credit: Microsoft)  I wonder how hard Azure will be to use now... See my Azure project, showing said complexity. It wo...
    • 11 Nov 2019
  • Microsoft Reduces Workweek to Four Days in Japan and Productivity Spiked 40%

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    Microsoft’s Work-Life Choice Challenge project found that productivity increased during a four-day workweek, along with implementing 30-minute (max) meetings. (Image credit: Microsoft)  Microsoft’s offices in Japan recently implemented a four-da...
    • 6 Nov 2019
  • The Internet Turns 50 and Suffers a Mid-Life Crisis

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    Fifty years ago, on October 29, 1969, the internet, in the form of ARPANET, went online then subsequently crashed. (Image credit: Pexels)  Fifty years ago, Leonard Kleinrock and his colleagues developed ARPANET (Advanced Research Projects Agency...
    • 31 Oct 2019
  • Google sticks by claims of achieving quantum supremacy

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    Has Google won the race for quantum supremacy? The company recently published its accomplishment in the scientific journal, Nature (Photo from Google) Back in September, Google made the bold claim that it had achieved quantum supremacy. The comp...
    • 29 Oct 2019
  • Data61 and ANU Offshoot 3Ai looks to create new Branch of Engineering for Industry 4.0

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    The 3Ai was established to tackle AI applications and integration in advanced robotics, autonomous platforms, machine learning, and cyber-physical systems. (Image credit: 3Ai Institute via Twitter)  I wished this existed back in my old college d...
    • 9 Oct 2019
  • SpaceX wants to buy out residents of small Texas community

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    SpaceX launching its Starhooper rocket prototype (Image credit: SpaceX) Elon Musk’s SpaceX project has equal amounts of support and disdain from critics and the general public. But residents in a small Texas community may have even more reason ...
    • 27 Sep 2019
  • The Wi-Fi Alliance Officially Launches Wi-Fi 6 Certification Program

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    Wi-Fi 6 certified devices will be able to operate in the 2.5 and 5GHz bands and will include new features such as orthogonal frequency division multiple access (OFDMA), multi-user multiple input/output, transmit beamforming, and more. (Image credit: ...
    • 18 Sep 2019
  • Engineering Spotlight – Courtney Kennedy’s Multi-Disciplinary Career Path

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    Premier Farnell employs a number of talented engineers across all our brands and services, each with their own unique skills, interests and backgrounds. These are the people who help keep our company at the forefront of engineering, innovation and te...
    • 19 Aug 2019
  • Global Market Insights Predict Embedded Software will be a $20-Billion Cash-Cow by 2025

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    GMI states that the increase in revenue is due to the adoption of embedded devices in the retail and automotive sectors. (Image credit: Global Market Insights) Embedded Systems have been growing exponentially and can be found in a ton of applica...
    • 2 Aug 2019
  • Toyota and Denso team up for new chip manufacture company

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    The two autodealers have formed a joint venture partnership to focus on the future of semiconductors for autonomous cars. The new business is expected to open next year. (Image credit: Robert Hradil via Getty Images) Toyota is gearing up to expa...
    • 24 Jul 2019
  • The 50th Anniversary of the Historic Apollo 11 Mission that Could have ended in Tragedy

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    Buzz Aldren- the second man to walk on the moon. (Image credit: Neil Armstrong via Pixabay)  Fifty years seems like such a long time ago since Neil Armstrong, Edwin Eugene “Buzz” Aldren Jr., and Michael Collins went to the moon for the first man...
    • 20 Jul 2019
  • Sidewalk Labs unveils its master plan for Toronto’s smart city

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    Sidewalk Labs’ smart city includes two new neighborhoods, newly designed streets, and data collecting sensors. The image is Sidewalk Labs’ concept for their smart city. (Image credit: Sidewalk Labs) Sidewalk Labs, part of Google’s Alphabet focus...
    • 27 Jun 2019
  • Robert Downey Jr founded Footprint Coalition will help clean the environment in 2020

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    Fake Tony Stark is about to be a real-life Tony Stark. The Footprint Coalition, a new organization founded by Robert Downey Jr. will be dedicated to using advanced technologies to help improve the environment, will launch in April 2020. The announcem...
    • 10 Jun 2019
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