The Pentagon has named two finalists of the JEDI contract winners. (Image Credit: Ivan Cholakov via Getty Images) Two finalists in the $10 billion dollar, decade-long, JEDI cloud contract were announced on Wednesday by the Pentagon and Oracle wa...
Autonomous robots can be seen doing the odd job in place of human workers. Retail stores like Walmart have already put robots to use (as a janitorial role), and while that may seem like a good idea to boost sales, it does pose the risk of job losses ...
Researchers from MIT's Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Lab (CSAIL) and Yale University have developed a robot, known as RoCycle that can sort through recycling by picking up paper, plastic, and glass. RoCycle uses an arm that&#...
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...
The acquisition will bring deep and vision learning applications to Boston Dynamics family of robots. (Image credit: Boston Dynamics via YouTube) Boston Dynamics has announced their acquisition of deep-learning vision company Kinema Systems- a ...
The three took the 1-million prize for laying the foundation of deep learning, which has become a staple in autonomous vehicles, computer vision, and speech recognition. (Image credit: ACM) The ACM (Association for Computing Machinery) has give...
Sir Tim Berners-Lee, the founder of the World Wide Web. (Image credit: CERN) Thirty years ago, English scientist Tim Berners-Lee wrote a paper entitled “Information Management: A Proposal,” which detailed how to manage general information about...
AI's new painter, Ai-Da can paint human facesThe robot will be able to sketch human faces. (Image Credit: Reuters) There's a chance some people have always wondered how they may appear to the eyes of a robot. Now they may be able to see that. En...
NFC expands to many different markets and applications, from access, payment, ticketing, industrial, gaming, retail, metering, appliances, healthcare and many more. control applications. Each NFC application has very different requirements them in te...
https://vimeo.com/309893059SkyRocket's latest technology allows onlookers to see their logos with ease. (Video Credit: SkyRocket) We've all seen it. Those pesky advertisements from TV, radio, billboards, newspapers, magazines. smar...
(Image credit: Gamedev.world) This post is mainly about unionizing in a technical field. Could this concept move over to the other engineering fields? A new game developer’s conference is set to launch later this year, which is designed to ...
Microsoft's president, Brad Smith and Chief Financial Officer, Amy Hood announce Microsoft's imitative to invest $500 million for affordable housing in Puget Sound. (Image Credit: Microsoft) Microsoft announced a $500 million commitment to help...
Caper's shopping cart is the ultimate checkout experience for customers who want a quick and easy checkout. (Image via Capar) Technologically, it almost seems like this should be common place already. I look forward to shaking up industry. &nbs...
Wiliot’s chip sensor is the first of its kind and has the ability to communicate with devices enabled by Bluetooth Low Energy. Wiliot’s concept for their Bluetooth chip. (Photo via Wiliot) A new startup called WIliot is getting a lot of attentio...
Toyota Mobility Foundation has revealed the five finalists from their competition to find a way to pair smart technology with mobile technology. Qolo is just one of the ways the future of assisted mobility is being reimagined (Concept image by Simon ...
The decision has been in the works for several years now (Photo via Associated Press) I kind of live for news like this. Recently, scientists voted to change the definition of the kilogram along with the ampere, the Kelvin, and the mole. The dec...
The first photo InSight sent of its successful landing; the lens is covered with bits of dust (Photo from NASA) NASA recently made a major breakthrough in Mars exploration. On Monday (Nov. 26), the NASA InSight mission landed on Mars. Originally...
Project Impossible highlights groundbreaking engineering projects that are solving some of the world’s most pressing issues. The projects featured on the show were once thought to be impossible to achieve. (Photo via The History Channel) Back in...
Over the last several months, there have been some science-based news headlines that have caught my attention just for their topics alone. They strayed from the norm, offered unique insight about a particular topic, or were just straight-up unusual. ...
The company will drop $10-million in Closed Loop Fund to increase recycling rates across the US. (Image credit: Amazon) According to a recent report from Statista, the world is on track to generate nearly 50-tons of e-waste this year alone, and...
Don Coleman took his Arduino MKR WAN 1300 (LoRa) project to the Maker Faire and revealed exactly how well the board performs among the elements. (Image via Don Coleman GitHub) UPDATE before it's posted: I liked the LoRa system so much, I am ...
DemoA new feature, called Dynamic Power Control (DPC), controls antenna current, RF power, and the related waveforms to deliver optimized RF performance, even under detuned conditions. It maximizes transmitter current during detuned conditions and th...
Researchers at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology used epidural electrical stimulation to help those paralyzed regain some of their movement. A man is back on his feet after an electrical implant. (Photo via Swiss Federal Institute) An a...
Artist Trevor Paglen is launching his latest work of art in space and is meant to be visible to the naked eye. The sculpture will inflate into an elongated diamond shape. (Photo from Trevor Paglen and Nevada Museum of Art) It's rare to have ...
