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22 Apr 23

Biofriendly Transient Devices Emerge

Biotechnology & Biomedical

Researchers at Northwestern University, Evanston, Ill., and the University of Sussex, Brighton, England, have created prototypes of new environmentally sustainable devices that can monitor blood pressure and heartbeat, or heal persistent afflictions such as diabetic ulcers.The devices are also far more advanced than proof-of-concept stage; the Northwestern device, a transient…

22 Apr 23

Software Detective Debunked Mike Lindell’s Election Fraud Claims

Computer & Information Technology

Robert Zeidman, a software detective who literally wrote the book on looking for evidence of wrongdoing in lines of computer code (The Software IP Detective’s Handbook), was awarded US $5 million on 19 April by an arbitration panel for winning the “Prove Mike Wrong” challenge. That is, he debunked a…

21 Apr 23

Video Friday: Googly Eye

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.Robotics Summit & Expo: 10–11 May 2023, BOSTONICRA 2023: 29 May–2…

21 Apr 23

This Harvard Law Professor is an Expert on Digital Technology

Metallurgy & Material Science

Jonathan L. Zittrain wears many hats. An expert on the Internet, digital technology, law, and public policy, he regularly contributes to public discussions about what digital tech is doing to us and what we should do about it—most recently around the governance of AI and the incentives that shape major…

21 Apr 23

With AI Watermarking, Creators Strike Back

Metallurgy & Material Science

This article is part of our exclusive IEEE Journal Watch series in partnership with IEEE Xplore. AI models rely on immense data sets to train their complex algorithms, but sometimes the use of those data sets for training purposes can infringe on the rights of the data owners. Yet actually…

21 Apr 23

Sharper 3D Holograms Come Into Focus

Metallurgy & Material Science

Actual 3D holograms may be achievable in a projected medium that aren’t blurry or fuzzy but still appear to have real depth, according to a new study. The researchers, based in China and Singapore, exerted a new level of control over the hologram projection’s scattering medium.Much like flying cars or…

21 Apr 23

Who’s really in control of getting driverless cars safely onto UK roads?

Civil, Structural & Architecture, Mechanical, Production & Manufacturing

The UK government has been anticipating the imminent arrival of driverless cars for many years, but the technology is just one of the components needing further development before autonomous vehicles (AVs) appear on Britain’s roads. The reality of AVs hinges on developing a legal framework that underpins how they are…

20 Apr 23

Students Use Their Tech Know-How to Protect the Environment

Metallurgy & Material Science

Climate change is a problem for communities around the world. To help find ways to address it through technology, EPICS in IEEE, in partnership with the United Engineering Foundation, launched the Environmental Competition last year. According to the Natural Resources Defense Council, climate change contributes to severe weather events such…

20 Apr 23

Industry Out of Phase With Supercomputers

Computer & Information Technology

Technical and economic changes in the semiconductor industry threaten to stifle U.S. development of the next generation of high-performance computers, warns a new report from the National Research Council.With Moore’s Law and the scaling of transistors waning, the industry is turning to chip designs that don’t work for the supercomputing…

20 Apr 23

Seagate to pay $300m fine over hard drive exports to Huawei

Electrical, Electronics & Instrumentation

US authorities have imposed the $300m (£241m) penalty on Seagate, for the shipping of 7.4 million hard drives to China-based Huawei, worth $1.1bn (£883m), the Department of Commerce has confirmed. The hard drives were sold between August 2020 and September 2021, immediately after the Trump administration imposed a ban on the…