Carolyn Mathas

Battery recharging is problematic. With each subsequent charge, batteries decay. An international, multi-agency/university study published in Science looks at what drives a battery's lifespan and how those factors change over time in fast…

MIT announced the launch of an MIT AI Hardware Program, joined by five inaugural companies to advance transformative AI technologies for the next decade. The academia and industry collaboration will define and develop translational…

When it comes to autonomous vehicles, the push has been to replace drivers eventually, letting the car completely take over. However, the upshot of a recent presentation is that instead of unhooking the driver, a more realistic prospect is…

As long as things stay the same, warehouse robots accurately pick and place for shipment without problems. However, change the process, and you must reprogram the robot and retrain the system. MIT researchers developed a training technique…

An Imaging X-ray Polarimetry Explorer (IXPE) launched by NASA on 9 December 2021 is a space-based observatory. Developed with the Italian Space Agency (ASI), it has three identical telescopes, each with an imaging X-ray detector sensitive…

With most 3D printers, objects are built up layer by layer. But what if they didn’t have to be? Dan Congreve, an assistant professor of electrical engineering at Stanford and former Rowland Fellow at the Rowland Institute at Harvard…

Twenty-two leading zero-knowledge tech companies, foundations, and funds, joined by Advanced Micro Devices, announced a ZPrize contest offering $7 million in prizes. The goal is to accelerate zero-knowledge cryptography to enable the…

Okay, we know this, right? We're addicted to our smartphones, even knowing they cause muscle and back pain and turn us into the proverbial Jekyll and Hyde. Privat-Dozentin Dr. Julia Brailovskaia and her team are researching whether our…

Researchers at Georgia State designed an artificial vision device that incorporates a novel vertical stacking architecture. The result is greater depth of color recognition and scalability on a micro-level. The new development is published…

One of the great fears regarding robots is which jobs they will take over and when? And, for each of us, will our career be unscathed? In a recent study in Science Robotics, roboticists from EPFL and economists from the University of…

Digi-Key will be hosting a "Digital Solutions: A Live Fireside Chat" with MacroFab, Inc., on Thursday, April 28, at 3 p.m. CDT. Featuring speakers from both companies, discussion will concentrate on the benefits of using APIs to connect…

The OCP Foundation just announced a new hardware/software co-design strategy. Hardware-software co-design is gaining importance as software workloads require specialized silicon to deliver top performance at acceptable energy and ecological…

TechServe Alliance announced the addition of 431,000 non-farm jobs with the unemployment rate dropping to 3.6%. Yet, for sectors such as IT, growth is elusive continuing a year-long pattern of being flat. Employment in IT in March showed…

FedEx Express is joining with Elroy Air to build the first end-to-end autonomous vertical take-off and landing (VTOL) aerial cargo system. FedEx Express will develop plans to test Elroy Air’s Chaparral autonomous air cargo system for…

Boston Dynamics announced that while its Stretch Robot was now available for commercial orders, it seems the robot is sold out for the rest of this year. They are now accepting orders for delivery through 2024. Stretch unloads floor-loaded…