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3 Challenges As Hands-On, DIY Culture Moves Into Schools
Take a look this summer inside some of America's garages, museums and libraries and you'll see that the "Maker Movement" is thriving. This hands-on, DIY culture of inventors, tinkerers and hackers is...
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Vote in the Innovation Radar Prize 2016 to shine a light on Europe's...
The European Commission has launched a competition to identify Europe's top future innovators and their innovations. During the entire month of August, people will be able to vote for their favourite...
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Twitter's #Rio2016 emojis just dropped for all your patriotic needs
Is an event truly an event without purpose-made emoji? Apparently not. An increasingly-sports focused Twitter have announced plans to take on the 2016 Olympic Games in Rio De Janeiro. With literally...
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And the Best Micro for Beginner Learning is…
First, thanks to all of you who responded to my previous blog, “How to Choose the Best Microcontroller.” It’s great to get input like this from experts on the subject. While the responses were broad,...
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Eating more plant protein associated with lower risk of death
Eating more protein from plant sources was associated with a lower risk of death, while eating more protein from animals was associated with a higher risk of death — especially among adults with at...
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Trump changed views on Ukraine after hiring Manafort
Donald Trump sounded like a supporter of Ukraine's territorial integrity last September, when he spoke by video feed to a gathering of political and business elites in Kiev. “Our president is not...
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How Adafruit developed Circuit Playground @makerio @DigiKey #DeskOfLadyada
From Maker to Market 07 – Funding –How Adafruit developed Circuit Playground, an educational board for makers. This Friday @ 10PM EDT Once your idea has secured funding, your natural enthusiasm for...
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Olympic Athletes Try Zapping Their Brains to Boost Performance
A handful of athletes competing at the Summer Olympic Games in Rio next week will arrive having tried to boost their performance using an unconventional (and not-yet-banned) technology: brain...
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Pepper the robot is ready to greet the great American public
Pepper's resume is already packed with an impressive list of multinationals in both Japan and Asia, but now the robot is ready to meet and greet in English, specifically in San Francisco, where it'll...
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Dust-sized wireless sensors could control prosthetics someday
See that minuscule component in the image above? That's a wireless sensor, and someday, doctors could slip it into our bodies to monitor our organs like a microscopic Fitbit or even to give quadri- and...
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Hackers Fool Tesla S’s Autopilot to Hide and Spoof Obstacles
In May, when a Tesla S in autopilot mode failed to detect a white tractor-trailer turning into its path and careened into the rig’s side at 74 miles per hour, killing the car’s driver, the question of...
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MIT and DARPA Pack Lidar Sensor onto Single Chip
This is a guest post. The views expressed here are solely those of the authors and do not represent positions of IEEE Spectrum or the IEEE. Light detection and ranging, or lidar, is a sensing...
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Mobile Robots and Intralogistics the Always-On Supply Chain
Font Size: A A A Robotics Industry Insights VIEW CATEGORIES Industry Insights »More Industry Insights »Back to Robotic Resources This industry insights is filed under: Application Material Handling by...
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Make Algorithms Accountable
Algorithms are ubiquitous in our lives. They map out the best route to our destination and help us find new music based on what we listen to now. But they are also being employed to inform fundamental...
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Getting started with FPGAs
In this episode of the Hardware podcast, O’Reilly editor Brian Jepson and I talk about what FPGAs can do, how they’re getting more approachable for beginners, and the parallels between FPGAs and...
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UK Biobank celebrates 10 years of pioneering health research
UK Biobank, a large scale medical research programme, is an extraordinary undertaking with the ultimate aim of improving the prevention, diagnosis and treatment of host of serious conditions. This...
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Tesla may replace Autopilot’s eyes with something far more advanced
This may accelerate the arrival of self-driving cars. by Will Knight August 4, 2016 What will Tesla’s new brain be capable of? The car company announced last week that it would no longer use a vision...
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Cucumber Machines, Adorable Felt Plushies, and More at Maker Faire Tokyo
If you expect to see robots at Maker Faire Tokyo, you wouldn’t be wrong. But what about a cucumber-sorting machine or wooden graffiti lettering? After attending last year’s Faire, Maker Faire founder...
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Possibly fearing UK competition, White House pushes new drone initiatives
The White House Office of Science and Technology held a conference on Tuesday to discuss the future of commercial drone use and announced several initiatives to encourage its growth. “We need to...
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