Researchers trained a collaborative robot to read human emotions using a vision language model that considers contextual factors beyond facial expressions. In experiments with 40 volunteers, the VLM o…
Space-based data centers face significant economic and physical hurdles that Silicon Valley proponents often overlook, according to an aerospace analyst at ABI Research. A total-cost-of-ownership comp…
Isomorphic Labs, a Google DeepMind spinoff, has developed a new AI system called the Isomorphic Drug Design Engine (IsoDDE) to identify hidden binding sites on proteins that standard models like Alpha…
A research group at the University of Twente in the Netherlands has demonstrated a method to reduce energy consumption during large language model training by up to 14 percent without sacrificing spee…
The unemployment rate for recent computer science graduates in the U.S. stands at 6.1 percent, compared to 3.2 percent for philosophy majors, but engineering graduates rank among the top fields when f…
A new deep learning model can accurately track glacier calving fronts with minimal manual input, reducing error margins from over a kilometer to under 70 meters per glacier. Researchers at Friedrich-A…
IEEE held its annual Honors Ceremony in New York City on 24 April, celebrating engineers behind innovations including text-to-donate technology, AI-powered diagnostic tools, and the graphics processin…
At Computex 2026 in Taipei, Nvidia announced RTX Spark, a version of its Blackwell GB10 superchip for Windows PCs, with Microsoft, Asus, Dell, Lenovo, HP, and MSI unveiling new devices powered by the …
A new DNA synthesis method called Sidewinder can assemble dozens of genetic sequences simultaneously in a single test tube with just one error per 10 million assembly events, far surpassing convention…
New engineering graduates must treat artificial intelligence as leverage rather than competition to succeed in a rapidly evolving tech landscape. Engineers who master fundamentals, develop system desi…
Quantum computers require significant classical computing infrastructure to operate, with companies like Nvidia, Q-CTRL, IBM, Riverlane, and Google Quantum AI developing classical hardware and softwar…
Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang announced the Nvidia Groq 3 language processing unit at GTC 2026, marking the company's first chip designed specifically for AI inference rather than training. The chip incorpo…
Researchers and advocates are raising concerns that the AI industry is failing to systematically measure how the technology affects human well-being, even as it rapidly deploys tools that reshape cogn…
AI hardware startup Majestic Labs announced a new AI server, Prometheus, featuring up to 128 terabytes of memory — over 60 times more than Nvidia's DGX B300 — to overcome the "memory wall" bottleneck …
South Africa holds approximately 88% of global platinum-group metal reserves critical to AI infrastructure and hosts the continent's largest data center market, giving it unique leverage over major te…
A new AI-powered thermal camera system launched on May 19 on Angel Island is detecting gray whales in San Francisco Bay to prevent ship strikes. The WhaleSpotter system uses artificial intelligence to…
European researchers have developed a millimeter-wave radar system that can distinguish between insect species by analyzing micro-Doppler signatures from their wingbeats, offering a non-invasive alter…
The IEEE Standards Association has launched the IEEE Global Medical Mobile App Assessment and Registry, a publicly searchable directory that lists therapeutic medical apps vetted by experts for techni…
Researchers at the University of Waikato have developed a text-to-speech system for a specific dialect of te reo Māori, built on the principle that the synthetic voice and all data used to create it m…
Companies including Hugging Face, Nvidia, and Alibaba have released open-source tools and models in the last two years aimed at enabling robots to reason, decide, and act. The open-source movement tha…