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13 Nov 23

Norway’s Otovo bags €40M to grow rent-to-own solar marketplace

Computer & Information Technology

Norway-headquartered Otovo has secured €40mn to expand its rent-to-buy online marketplace for solar panels, as it seeks to cash in on booming demand from homeowners looking to slash their energy bills. Otovo rents out solar panels and inverters at a fixed monthly cost, which includes all repairs and maintenance. The…

13 Nov 23

Taking legal action to protect users of AI and small businesses

Computer & Information Technology

Today we’re taking legal action against two groups of scammers.

13 Nov 23

MIT Professor’s IoT Sensors Make Roads Safer

Electrical, Electronics & Instrumentation, Mechanical, Production & Manufacturing

Back in 2005, before smartphones were generally available, MIT Professor Hari Balakrishnan was so fed up with commuting delays in Boston that he built a mobile system to monitor road conditions. Hari Balakrishnan Employer MIT Title Professor Member grade Fellow Alma maters Indian Institute of Technology, Madras, and the University…

12 Nov 23

Google, Intel, Nvidia Battle in Generative AI Training

Electrical, Electronics & Instrumentation, Mechanical, Production & Manufacturing

The leading public apples-to-apples test for computer systems’ ability to train machine learning neural networks has fully entered the generative AI era. Earlier this year, MLPerf added a test for training large language models (LLM), GPT-3 in particular. This month it adds Stable Diffusion, a text-to-image generator. Computers powered by…

11 Nov 23

To Free The Baltic Grid, Old Technology Is New Again

Mechanical, Production & Manufacturing

The Baltic countries—Lithuania, Latvia and Estonia—recently accelerated a plan to cut the electrical chains that keep them tied to Russia. A technical lynchpin to their planned escape from the Moscow-controlled synchronous AC power zone is a constellation of synchronous condensers: free-spinning and fuel-free electrical generators whose sole purpose is to…

11 Nov 23

Video Friday: Beyond the Limit

Electrical, Electronics & Instrumentation, Mechanical, Production & Manufacturing

Video 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.IEEE SSRR 2023: 13–15 November 2023, FUKUSHIMA, JAPANHumanoids 2023: 12–14 December…

11 Nov 23

Notice to Membership

Electrical, Electronics & Instrumentation, Mechanical, Production & Manufacturing

The IEEE Ethics and Member Conduct Committee (EMCC) received a complaint against Dr. Peng Zhang, a member in the grade of Senior Member of the IEEE. A hearing board appointed by the IEEE Board of Directors found Cause that Dr. Zhang violated Section II, Subsection 8 of the IEEE Code…

10 Nov 23

Organic Electronics Mimic Retinal Neurons

Computer & Information Technology

Finding ways to interface electronics with our biology could help treat neurodegenerative diseases, improve prosthetics, and even lead to novel computing technologies. A chip made from organic electronics that can imitate the way the retina works brings that goal a step closer, its creators say. Hooking conventional electronics up to…

10 Nov 23

How we taught Google Translate to recognize homonyms

Computer & Information Technology

How Google Translate’s neural model taught it to understand bass from bass.

10 Nov 23

Smart Emergency Responses to Severe Weather

Civil, Structural & Architecture

Floods, landslides, and other disasters resulting from extreme weather are expected to bedevil cities more often due to climate change. These disasters can often disrupt traffic flows, slowing the deployment of emergency vehicles even as they try to respond to an overwhelming number of calls for aid. Now scientists have…