Webinar: Compliance Testing and Signal Integrity Debugging of USB 3.2 Interfaces
Webinar: Compliance Testing and Signal Integrity Debugging of USB 3.2 Interfaces Source: IEEE Spectrum Computing
Why Did It Take a Global Pandemic to Trigger the WFH Revolution?
Edmon de Haro I have a friend who lives on a farm and for years had connected to the Internet through a slow and prone-to-fail DSL (Digital Subscriber Line) link. He was okay living without Netflix, but as an attorney, he would have sorely liked to teleconference with clients, particularly…
Agility Robotics' Cassie Is Now Astonishingly Good at Stairs
Bipedal robots are a huge hassle. They’re expensive, complicated, fragile, and they spend most of their time almost but not quite falling over. That said, bipeds are worth it because if you want a robot to go everywhere humans go, the conventional wisdom is that the best way to do…
Forget Cryptocurrencies and NFTs—Securing Devices Is the Future of Blockchain Technology
Lincoln Agnew Cryptocurrencies and nonfungible tokens (NFTs) may be all the rage right now, but they’re overshadowing better uses for blockchain and other distributed-ledger technologies. Rather than using them to disrupt financial systems or the art world, distributed ledgers can be used to create trust among Internet of Things devices,…
Here’s How Google’s TPU v4 AI Chip Stacked Up in Training Tests
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Mobile dexterous robots: a key element against COVID-19
Kinova robotic arms, from left to right: Gen2, Gen3 lite, Gen3 Multiple companies turned to Kinova® robotic arms to create mobile platforms with manipulation capabilities to tackle many aspects of the sanitary crisis. The addition of a dexterous manipulator to mobile platforms opens the door to applications such as patient…
The Secondhand Origins of Silicon Valley’s Ingot Industry
Photo: Science History Institute The furnace at the bottom of this crystal puller heated a sample of silicon, and then a hydraulic lift gently pulled upward, forming a single crystal of pure silicon. Silicon is one of the most common elements on the planet, but it exists almost always as…
The 2021 Hackaday Game is Afoot!
Today the folks at Hackaday announced the 2021 Hackaday Prize, a hardware design challenge for DIYers, which this year goes by the theme “Rethink, Refresh, Rebuild.” The capital-P-Prize is actually a group of awards that range from a USD $25,000 grand prize to a set of $500 prizes given to the 50…
China Becomes Third Nation to Successfully Land Rover on Mars
Early Saturday morning (Beijing time), China’s Tianwen-1 lander separated from its orbiter and successfully performed a fully autonomous powered descent to the Martian surface, carrying the Zhurong rover along with it. The landing site is Utopia Planitia, past site of the Viking 2 lander and future site of a major…
Ansys AI Filter Optimization, Multi-physics and Automation for 5G
This webinar introduces the SynMatrix filter synthesis and optimization tool that can be used to drive Ansys HFSS full wave simulation and filter tuning. Source: IEEE Spectrum Robotics