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09 Dec 23

Video Friday: Floppybot

Electrical, Electronics & Instrumentation, Mechanical, Production & Manufacturing

Your weekly selection of awesome robot videosVideo Friday is your weekly selection of awesome robotics videos, collected by your friends at IEEE Spectrum robotics. We also post a weekly calendar of upcoming robotics events for the next few months. Please send us your events for inclusion.Humanoids 2023: 12–14 December 2023,…

08 Dec 23

10 Google Play apps to help with your holiday budget

Computer & Information Technology

Check out these top apps for keeping your finances, and stress, in check this holiday shopping season.

08 Dec 23

Self-Driven “Vine” Seeks Light and Heat

Electrical, Electronics & Instrumentation

This article is part of our exclusive IEEE Journal Watch series in partnership with IEEE Xplore.Thanks to eons of evolution, vines have the ability to seek out light sources, growing in the direction that will optimize their chances of absorbing sunlight and thriving. Now, researchers have succeeded in creating a…

08 Dec 23

Why don’t we leave the internet platforms we dislike?

Computer & Information Technology

The internet is filled with sites and services we loathe yet it seems, to paraphrase Brokeback Mountain, we just don’t know how to quit them. Consider the evidence: Facebook was widely reviled after its role in the Cambridge Analytica scandal, yet it still has over 3 billion monthly active users.…

08 Dec 23

NotebookLM adds more than a dozen new features

Computer & Information Technology

Now available in the U.S., NotebookLM has new features to help you easily read, take notes and organize your writing projects.

08 Dec 23

EU declares aim to become ‘quantum valley’ of the world

Computer & Information Technology

Q-day (the day when quantum computers will successfully actually break the internet) may be some time away yet. However, that does not mean that companies — and states — shouldn’t hop on the qubit bandwagon now so as not to be left behind in the race for a technology that…

07 Dec 23

Drones Deliver Defibrillators Faster Than Ambulances

Electrical, Electronics & Instrumentation, Mechanical, Production & Manufacturing

Every minute counts when someone suffers a cardiac arrest. New research suggests that drones equipped with equipment to automatically restart someone’s heart could help get life-saving care to people much faster. If your heart stops beating outside of a hospital, your chance of survival is typically less than 10 percent.…

07 Dec 23

Loudspeaker Electroacoustic Measurements Application Note

Electrical, Electronics & Instrumentation

This application note presents a comprehensive overview of critical electroacoustic measurements essential for characterizing the performance of loudspeaker drive units and systems. The focus is on key objective measurements, with reference to industry standards for guidance. The complexity of measuring loudspeakers is emphasized, requiring precision microphones and electronics with a…

07 Dec 23

The Coming Boom in Rare Earths

Electrical, Electronics & Instrumentation, Mechanical, Production & Manufacturing

It would be an overstatement to say that the modern world runs on rare-earth elements. But as overstatements go, that one has more than a grain of truth.Because of their unique luminescent, electrochemical, and magnetocrystalline properties, rare-earth elements are essential to some of the most important and fastest-growing tech-based industries.…

07 Dec 23

When Waters Rise, Satellites Now Lag

Electrical, Electronics & Instrumentation

This article is part of our exclusive IEEE Journal Watch series in partnership with IEEE Xplore. During the summer of 2020, China’s second-largest freshwater body of water—Dongting Lake—experienced unprecedented levels of flooding, the likes of which had not been seen over the previous two decades. As a result of unusually…