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Paris Firefighters Used This Remote-Controlled Robot to Extinguish the Notre Dame Blaze

22 Απριλίου 2019 by paulkokos

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Colossus can carry heavy hoses into spots that are too dangerous for human firefighters to enterThe Paris Fire Brigade has seen its share of logistical challenges, but the massive conflagration that consumed parts of the Notre Dame cathedral on the night of 15 April required a fight of epic proportions.…

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Find Your Next Tech Job in One of These Boom Towns

22 Απριλίου 2019 by paulkokos

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Look beyond major metropolitan areas to smaller U.S. cities with relatively few applicants for many openingsTech’s share of the Silicon Valley job market continues to grow, in spite of the loud and constant complaints about dramatically escalating housing costs. (Or maybe because of them; perhaps only tech professionals can afford…

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Untold History of AI: How Amazon's Mechanical Turkers Got Squeezed Inside the Machine

22 Απριλίου 2019 by paulkokos

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Today's unseen digital laborers resemble the human who powered the 18th century Mechanical Turk The history of AI is often told as the story of machines getting smarter over time. What’s lost is the human element in the narrative, how intelligent machines are designed, trained, and powered by human minds…

The Coral Dev Board Takes Google’s AI to the Edge

19 Απριλίου 2019 by paulkokos

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A tensor processing unit with a Raspberry Pi–style form factor brings machine learning to makers Photo: Randi Klett There’s a steady drumbeat about how deep learning is going to touch nearly every area of technology, not least from us here at IEEE Spectrum. So, like a lot of folks, I’ve…

Video Friday: Boston Dynamics' Spot Robots Pull a Truck, and More

19 Απριλίου 2019 by paulkokos

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Your weekly selection of awesome robot videosVideo Friday is your weekly selection of awesome robotics videos, collected by your Automaton bloggers. We’ll also be posting a weekly calendar of upcoming robotics events for the next few months; here’s what we have so far (send us your events!): Nîmes Robotics Festival…

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How the Boeing 737 Max Disaster Looks to a Software Developer

18 Απριλίου 2019 by paulkokos

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Design shortcuts meant to make a new plane seem like an old, familiar one are to blame.article-detail aside.inlay.xlrg { margin-top: 26px; font-size: 18px; line-height: 24px; padding: 20px; } Photo: Jemal Countess/Getty Images This is part of the wreckage of Ethiopian Airlines Flight ET302, a Boeing 737 Max airliner that crashed…

U.S. Congress Finally Gets Some Good Ideas About IoT Security

18 Απριλίου 2019 by paulkokos

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U.S. Congress Finally Gets Some Good Ideas About IoT security Illustration: Jude Buffum In 2016, attacks such as the Mirai botnet took down several popular websites, and in doing so, brought attention to the need for security for Internet of Things (IoT) devices. Since then, the U.S. Congress has made attempts…

Better Ultrasound Imaging and Sonar Through Samarium

18 Απριλίου 2019 by paulkokos

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Samarium can nearly double the performance of piezoelectric crystals used in many sensors Piezoelectric crystals are the key ingredient in many kinds of sensors that detect vibrations, and can be found in underwater sonars and medical ultrasound imaging systems. The crystals’ performance can be dramatically improved, according to a team of researchers at Xi'an…

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Wireless Industry’s Newest Gambit: Terahertz Communication Bands

17 Απριλίου 2019 by paulkokos

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While communication system designers are preoccupied with readying millimeter wave (mmWave) for 5G, experiments are underway on terahertz bands for indoor wireless, localization studios, and gigabyte Wi-Fi networksThe terahertz band (0.3 THz to 10 THz) is the next frontier in wireless communications for its ability to unlock significantly wider segments…

Home Robot Control for People With Disabilities

17 Απριλίου 2019 by paulkokos

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Georgia Tech's augmented-reality interface gives control over complex robots to the people who need themRobots offer an opportunity to enable people to live safely and comfortably in their homes as they grow older. In the near future (we’re all hoping), robots will be able to help us by cooking, cleaning,…

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