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What exactly goes on in the minds of machines that learn to see? Duke University’s computer science professor, Cynthia Rudin, set out to define exactly what happens in between input and output in deep learning models. The complexity…

Steve Wozniak is out of retirement and launching his second company, Efforce. The mission is to transform and disrupt energy efficiency. Efforce enables companies to undertake energy efficiency measures at no cost, freeing up liquidity for…

The latest addition to the VIPerPlus series, the VIPer31 compact high-voltage converter IC from STMicroelectronics, enables robust power-converter solutions that deliver reliability and meet energy-saving eco-design norms while saving…

Researchers at MIT led by Michael Foshey have solved the challenges of dealing with varying varnish viscosities in 3D printing. To date, 3D hardware has mastered shape and color, but has been slow to deal with the visual feature of "gloss."…

Engineers at the McKelvey School of Engineering at Washington University in St. Louis are coaxing oxygen and hydrogen directly out of briny water. The team invented an electrolyzer that can be useful on Earth to tap into oceans as viable…

MIT just developed a system that optimizes a robot’s shape based on an application’s intended terrain. The system simulates different shapes to establish which design is best for what the robot must do and where they will do it. Dubbed…

Opteran just raised seed funding in the amount of £2.1 million to launch a radical lightweight, low-cost silicon-based approach to autonomy called Natural Intelligence. The company had its roots in eight years of insect-brain research…

While work is still getting done during the pandemic, remote access to our offices is greatly increasing the chances of data breaches, which are expensive to fix and hard to find. According to Robert Selvaraj, Co-founder and CEO of…

Image courtesy of STMicroelectronics STMicroelectronics has added support for FreeRTOS™ thread-aware debugging to its STM32CubeIDE development environment, giving users more power to complete their projects quickly and easily. Support…

"The IEEE 2020 Global Survey of CIOs and CTOs" surveyed 350 CIOs or CTOs on business opportunities, challenges, and key trends. The survey spanned the U.S., China, U.K., India, and Brazil, and was conducted from September 21 to October 9,…