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Technology Leaders: Sensors/Data Acquisition
An interview with Tom Doyle, CEO and Founder of Aspinity, Pittsburgh, PA, about the company's analog machine learning chip, the AML100 analog machine learning processor.
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Technology Leaders: Design
An apparatus such as a wireless sensor used in a hazardous location must meet the required safety standards. Those standards are amplified when the hazardous duty is done in areas in or near explosive atmospheres.
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Briefs: Green Design & Manufacturing
MIT researchers recently explored the potential energy consumption and related carbon emissions if autonomous vehicles (AV) are widely adopted.
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Briefs: Electronics & Computers
Multi-Energy Electron Device to Enable Lab Testing of Spacecraft Materials
Engineers at the Air Force Research Laboratory are developing a multi-energy electron source, capable of emitting a beam of electrons, at dozens of energies simultaneously.
Briefs: Internet of Things
The skin could help rehabilitation and enhance virtual reality by instantaneously adapting to a wearer's movements.
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Blog: Internet of Things
Researchers have created software that is able to verify how much information an AI system farmed from an organization’s digital database.
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Special Reports: Physical Sciences
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RF & Microwave Electronics - May 2023
From the battlespace to outer space, RF electronics are at the heart of new advances in a variety of fields. Read about the latest innovations in this compendium of articles from the editors of Aerospace...

INSIDER: Motion Control
There is extensive research on how a fixed-position flap affects lift in the realm of fluid-structure interaction. However, taking the conversation in a new direction, researchers at...
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Blog: Electronics & Computers
Physicists achieved optical switching of a light signal at attosecond speeds to reach previously unattainable data transfer speeds.
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Blog: Materials
By avoiding hazardous chemicals, the work points down a path industry could follow to reduce its environmental footprint.
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Quiz: Power
Do you know what microgrids are and how they work? Find out with this quiz.
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Q&A: Sensors/Data Acquisition
Professor Patrick Mercier and his team at the University of California, San Diego, have developed an RFID smart tag that uses the signals generated by a smartphone to both read and power it.
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Blog: Medical
A Caltech-developed new kind of smart bandage aims to treat lingering wounds and help those who have trouble recuperating.
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Quiz: Semiconductors & ICs
Test your knowledge about the facts, history, and individual elements of computer processors.
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Quiz: AR/AI
How much do you know about cybersecurity? Take this quiz to find out.
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INSIDER: Information Technology
Researchers from TMOS, the Australian Research Council Centre of Excellence for Transformative Meta-Optical Systems, have developed a sensor made from an array of nanowires,...
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INSIDER: Physical Sciences
Everyone is talking about the newest AI and the power of neural networks, forgetting that software is limited by the hardware on which it runs. But it is hardware, says USC...
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INSIDER: Medical
The molecules in our bodies are in constant communication. Some of these molecules provide a biochemical fingerprint that could indicate how a wound is healing, whether a cancer...
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Podcasts: Electronics & Computers
Amprius Technologies has achieved a new battery energy density breakthrough of 500 Wh/kg with its lithium-ion cell, the Silicon Anode Platform.
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Special Reports: Sensors/Data Acquisition
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Optics & Photonics Innovations - April 2023
Demand for satellite communications bandwidth is quickly outstripping supply. The solution: optical, laser-based technologies. Read all about it – and other major photonics advances – in this...

Special Reports: Communications
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Power Electronics - April 2023
This compendium of recent articles from the editors of Tech Briefs and Aerospace & Defense Technology looks at the latest advances in power electronics and energy storage for applications ranging from drones...

Products: Information Technology
See the product of the month.
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Briefs: AR/AI
A team has designed and built a chip that runs computations directly in memory and can run a wide variety of AI applications.
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Briefs: Electronics & Computers
The device uses soft robotics, ultra-thin electronics, and microfluidics.
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Blog: Electronics & Computers
Engineers and technicians can use their differences to help each other solve technical problems.
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Blog: Electronics & Computers
The first study on how purified boron nitride nanotubes remain stable in extreme temperatures in inert environments.
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Special Reports: Manufacturing & Prototyping
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Medical Manufacturing & Outsourcing - March 2023
The first 3D-printed nano-alloy...plasma treatment increases plastic part value 10x...light-powered catalysts aid drug manufacturing...how to build better "soft" robots. Those are just a few of...

Briefs: Green Design & Manufacturing
If a chemical spill in a river goes unnoticed for 20 minutes, it might be too late to remediate. Living bioelectronic sensors developed at Rice University can help.
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Briefs: Sensors/Data Acquisition
A highly sensitive wearable sensor for cardiorespiratory monitoring could potentially be worn continuously by cardiac patients or others who require constant monitoring.
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