Electrical, Electronics & Instrumentation

22 Nov 23

Dark Matter Data Saved Via Parachute

Electrical, Electronics & Instrumentation, Mechanical, Production & Manufacturing

A NASA high-altitude balloon flight earlier this year served as reminder of an ever-important lesson: Always back up your data. In April in Wānaka, New Zealand, researchers launched the Super Pressure Balloon Imaging Telescope, or SuperBIT, a balloon-based telescope that aimed to gather data on dark-matter distribution by imaging colliding…

22 Nov 23

Pioneer of Google’s Data Centers Dies at 58

Electrical, Electronics & Instrumentation, Mechanical, Production & Manufacturing

Luiz André BarrosoData center pioneerSenior member, 59; died 16 September An engineer at Google for more than 20 years, Barroso is credited with designing the company’s warehouse-size data centers. They house hundreds of thousands of computer servers and disk drives and have brought cloud computing, more powerful search engines, and…

21 Nov 23

China’s Belt and Road Initiative pivots to renewables and away from fossil fuels

Electrical, Electronics & Instrumentation, Mechanical, Production & Manufacturing

The Chinese government launched the controversial initiative in 2013, which aims to develop large-scale infrastructure in foreign countries in an effort to enhance its economic influence globally, as well as to address domestic overcapacity issues by exporting excess industrial capacity. It has faced both praise and criticism, with supporters arguing…

21 Nov 23

Imagineer Morgan Pope Uses Electromagnetism to Spark Emotions

Electrical, Electronics & Instrumentation, Mechanical, Production & Manufacturing

Most people probably think of robots as cold and calculating, but for Morgan Pope they can be a tool for generating emotions.As a research scientist at Disney Research in Glendale, Calif., Pope designs robots for the entertainment giant’s theme parks. But working as an Imagineer, as Disney’s researchers are known,…

21 Nov 23

The Complex Calculus of Clean Energy and Zero Emissions

Electrical, Electronics & Instrumentation, Mechanical, Production & Manufacturing

In the past two years, the U.S. Congress has provided hundreds of billions of dollars to speed the deployment of clean-energy technologies. These investments are one reason why the International Energy Agency (IEA) in September insisted that there’s still hope to hold global temperature rise to 1.5 °C in this…

20 Nov 23

COMSOL Releases Version 6.2 of COMSOL Multiphysics

Electrical, Electronics & Instrumentation

It also features high-performance multiphysics solvers for the analysis of electric motors, up to 40 per cent faster turbulent CFD simulations and an order of magnitude faster impulse response calculations for room and cabin acoustics. Additionally, it is now up to 7 times faster to perform boundary element analysis (BEM)…

20 Nov 23

High-Performance Data Acquisition for Swept-Source OCT

Electrical, Electronics & Instrumentation, Mechanical, Production & Manufacturing

In this webinar, we explore the advancements in data acquisition boards for Swept-Source Optical Coherence Tomography (SS-OCT). Discover how these boards enable deeper and wider imaging with higher resolution and faster scan rates. Topics include advantages of k-clock remapping (sampling the k-clock) versus direct clocking (clocking the digitizer with the…

19 Nov 23

Crypto, Venmo, NFTs, Tokens: Where Is Money Going?

Electrical, Electronics & Instrumentation, Mechanical, Production & Manufacturing

When was the last time you thought about money? Sure, you pay your monthly bills—and budget and track of all relevant balances. But how often do users of money allow themselves to wonder about the nature of the medium of exchange the world is built around? Rachel O’Dwyer, a lecturer…

19 Nov 23

An After-School Program Teaches Teens Java and Python

Electrical, Electronics & Instrumentation, Mechanical, Production & Manufacturing

After Vic Wintriss sold his sports-imaging company, Wintriss Engineering, to his cofounders in 2006, the electrical engineer was looking for a project to keep himself busy. Wintriss Engineering, based in San Diego, makes smart cameras for sports imaging such as tracking golf balls and inspecting paper, textiles, and plastics. While…

18 Nov 23

Video Friday: GR-1

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.Humanoids 2023: 12–14 December 2023, AUSTIN, TEXASCybathlon Challenges: 2 February 2024,…

Dark Matter Data Saved Via Parachute

Pioneer of Google’s Data Centers Dies at 58

China’s Belt and Road Initiative pivots to renewables and away from fossil fuels

Imagineer Morgan Pope Uses Electromagnetism to Spark Emotions

The Complex Calculus of Clean Energy and Zero Emissions

COMSOL Releases Version 6.2 of COMSOL Multiphysics

High-Performance Data Acquisition for Swept-Source OCT

Crypto, Venmo, NFTs, Tokens: Where Is Money Going?

An After-School Program Teaches Teens Java and Python

Video Friday: GR-1

Google won two major awards at MWC Barcelona 2025.

Expanding AI Overviews and introducing AI Mode

This MRI Can Run on Batteries

The Tiny Star Explosions Powering Moore’s Law