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Bat Wing Robot Helping Us Figure Out Why Bats Are Awesome
Are Boeing's Battery Difficulties Part of a Much Bigger Problem?
The Real Story of Stuxnet
Camera Chip Makes Already-Compressed Images
IT Hiccups of the Week: At least 17.4 Million U.S. Medication Errors Avoided by Hospital Computerized Provider Order Entry Systems
Make Way for Flexible Silicon Chips

Bat Wing Robot Helping Us Figure Out Why Bats Are Awesome

Posted: 26 Feb 2013 07:42 AM PST

It can't quite fly, but by pretending it can, this robotic wing is teaching researchers all about bats

Are Boeing's Battery Difficulties Part of a Much Bigger Problem?

Posted: 26 Feb 2013 07:21 AM PST

Seventy percent of the Dreamliner is preassembled by a tiered system of subcontractors that Boeing has never used before

The Real Story of Stuxnet

Posted: 26 Feb 2013 06:03 AM PST

How Kaspersky Lab tracked down the malware that stymied Iran's nuclear-fuel enrichment program

Camera Chip Makes Already-Compressed Images

Posted: 25 Feb 2013 11:34 AM PST

Compressed sensing is brought to a CMOS image sensor

IT Hiccups of the Week: At least 17.4 Million U.S. Medication Errors Avoided by Hospital Computerized Provider Order Entry Systems

Posted: 25 Feb 2013 11:19 AM PST

Microsoft loses cloud, ISS comms go out, parking lot glitches and Facebook thinks everyone is under 100 years old

Make Way for Flexible Silicon Chips

Posted: 25 Feb 2013 10:26 AM PST

We need them because thin, pliable organic semiconductors are too slow to serve in tomorrow's 3‑D chips

IEEE Spectrum

Bat Wing Robot Helping Us Figure Out Why Bats Are Awesome
Are Boeing's Battery Difficulties Part of a Much Bigger Problem?
The Real Story of Stuxnet
Camera Chip Makes Already-Compressed Images
IT Hiccups of the Week: At least 17.4 Million U.S. Medication Errors Avoided by Hospital Computerized Provider Order Entry Systems
Make Way for Flexible Silicon Chips

Bat Wing Robot Helping Us Figure Out Why Bats Are Awesome

Posted: 26 Feb 2013 07:42 AM PST

It can't quite fly, but by pretending it can, this robotic wing is teaching researchers all about bats

Are Boeing's Battery Difficulties Part of a Much Bigger Problem?

Posted: 26 Feb 2013 07:21 AM PST

Seventy percent of the Dreamliner is preassembled by a tiered system of subcontractors that Boeing has never used before

The Real Story of Stuxnet

Posted: 26 Feb 2013 06:03 AM PST

How Kaspersky Lab tracked down the malware that stymied Iran's nuclear-fuel enrichment program

Camera Chip Makes Already-Compressed Images

Posted: 25 Feb 2013 11:34 AM PST

Compressed sensing is brought to a CMOS image sensor

IT Hiccups of the Week: At least 17.4 Million U.S. Medication Errors Avoided by Hospital Computerized Provider Order Entry Systems

Posted: 25 Feb 2013 11:19 AM PST

Microsoft loses cloud, ISS comms go out, parking lot glitches and Facebook thinks everyone is under 100 years old

Make Way for Flexible Silicon Chips

Posted: 25 Feb 2013 10:26 AM PST

We need them because thin, pliable organic semiconductors are too slow to serve in tomorrow's 3‑D chips

IEEE Spectrum

Meet Pneupard, Osaka University's Air-Powered Cheetah Robot

Posted: 25 Feb 2013 08:15 AM PST

This quadruped is powered by air

Consumer Electronics Winners and Losers

Posted: 25 Feb 2013 07:24 AM PST

Tablets were the brightest spot in sales for the U.S. 2012 holiday season

IEEE Spectrum

Chromebook Pixel: Too Much, Too Soon
A Dumb 3-D Printer is a Million-Dollar Idea
Moroccan Solar Streetlighting
Spectrum-Stretching Tunable Antennas to the Rescue
Crisis in European Carbon Trading System
Why Did NanoInk Go Bust?

Chromebook Pixel: Too Much, Too Soon

Posted: 22 Feb 2013 01:36 PM PST

The Pixel is more Chromebook than anyone needs, for more money than anyone should spend

A Dumb 3-D Printer is a Million-Dollar Idea

Posted: 22 Feb 2013 01:09 PM PST

Smart 3-D printers are capturing the public's imagination, but a couple of robotics engineers think there is still room for a dumb one.

Moroccan Solar Streetlighting

Posted: 22 Feb 2013 12:10 PM PST

Could it be a model in other regions cursed this incessant blazing sunlight?

Spectrum-Stretching Tunable Antennas to the Rescue

Posted: 22 Feb 2013 11:39 AM PST

Smart receivers seek out quiet spots in the noisy, overcrowded airwaves

Crisis in European Carbon Trading System

Posted: 22 Feb 2013 11:03 AM PST

Despite recent attempts at correcton, the ETS is not getting the job done

Why Did NanoInk Go Bust?

Posted: 21 Feb 2013 09:05 PM PST

After a host of high-profile nanotechnology companies have bit the dust, the question of why is this happening is getting more desparate

IEEE Spectrum

Video Friday: Disaster Superheroes, Balancing Cubes, and senseFly Tackles the Matterhorn
Watch This "Sprawl-Tuned" Insect Bot Skitter All Over The Place
Carbon Nanotube-Based Thin Film Creates Hybrid Organic/Silicon Solar Cells
Reddit and Kim Dotcom's New Mega Site Are the Latest Greatest Bitcoin Merchants

Video Friday: Disaster Superheroes, Balancing Cubes, and senseFly Tackles the Matterhorn

Posted: 22 Feb 2013 07:42 AM PST

Exoskeletons for disaster relief, cubes that balance and dance, and something called the Harlem Shake: it's Video Friday

Watch This "Sprawl-Tuned" Insect Bot Skitter All Over The Place

Posted: 21 Feb 2013 10:42 PM PST

Wheel leg flappy things give this little robot a surprising amount of maneuverability

Carbon Nanotube-Based Thin Film Creates Hybrid Organic/Silicon Solar Cells

Posted: 21 Feb 2013 11:48 AM PST

Higher conversion efficiency with lower manufacturing costs for PVs, together in one package

Reddit and Kim Dotcom's New Mega Site Are the Latest Greatest Bitcoin Merchants

Posted: 21 Feb 2013 11:30 AM PST

Bitcoin makes two new friends as the currency's price approaches an all-time high