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Fascinated by the early 20th-century zeal for electrifying everyday items, I delved into the history of the electric eraser. Why electrify the humble eraser? It turns out, manual erasing was clumsy and time-consuming. From Joseph Priestley's discovery of…

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In the new book "AI Valley," Gary Rivlin chronicles the rise and fall of Inflection, a startup founded by LinkedIn's Reid Hoffman and DeepMind's Mustafa Suleyman. Inflection's chatbot, Pi, aimed to revolutionize AI with emotional intelligence but failed to…

Freudenberg Sealing Technologies tackles the engineering challenges of outdoor cobots with their innovative IPSR seals. These seals endure extreme weather, reduce friction, and extend robot lifespans.

Through clever usage of APIs, the Library Innovation Lab at Harvard Law School has created an archive of Data.gov, home to 311,000 public datasets

In a dairy barn full of content cows, autonomous robots handle milking, feeding, and cleaning, allowing farmers more flexibility and improving cow welfare. With robots, cows produce more milk and more comfortable lives. Could this be the future of sustainable…

Haptic interfaces have long been limited to simple vibrations, but researchers at Northwestern are advancing touch technology. Their new system simulates complex sensations like pinching and stretching, enhancing VR, medical applications, and even music.

To understand the smallest parts that make up the universe, engineers are designing the world's biggest experiments. These successors to the Large Hadron Collider will be bigger, more expensive, and require some innovations: new seamless superconducting RF…

Nvidia's new Blackwell GPUs dominate MLCommons benchmarks, but AMD's MI325X gives the H200 a run for its money. With MLPerf adding new benchmarks like Llama3.1 405B, the AI race is heating up! Can AMD close the gap with Nvidia? And where does Intel stand…

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After dispatching its Ghost Dragon ISR quadcopters to Ukraine in mid-2022, Estonian startup KrattWorks quickly realized the need for continuous innovation due to rapid advances in electronic warfare. Their latest neural-network-driven optical navigation system…

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Deep in a Norwegian fjord, TidalX AI's journey began with a "fish run" racetrack, where engineers tracked salmon to gather data and build the AI models that they hoped would revolutionize aquaculture. Emerging from Alphabet's moonshot factory, their AI and…

Students solved engineering problems while celebrating the society’s legacy