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      Do Data Scientists Need Certification?
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      Hey, Siri: Read My Lips
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      A Smart Stethoscope Puts AI in Medics’ Ears
      31 Jan
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      Neural Electrodes Snake Around Blood Vessels, Up Nerves
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      Winners Announced for the Zillow Prize
      30 Jan
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      Mayhem, the Machine That Finds Software Vulnerabilities, Then Patches Them
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      Errors Found in Forensic Software Meant to Assess Age of Death of Skeletal Remains
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      Meet the Bots That Review and Write Snippets of Facebook's Code
      24 Jan
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      This 3D Printing Technique Is 100 Times Faster Than Standard 3D Printers
      23 Jan

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      Smart Grid Experiment Saves Participants the Equivalent of One Electric Bill Per Year
      4 Feb
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      A MEMS Device Harvests Vibrations to Power the IoT
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      Hanford Nuclear Waste Cleanup Makes Progress, But Questions Loom
      29 Jan
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      A Cooler Cloud: A Clever Conduit Cuts Data Centers’ Cooling Needs by 90 Percent
      23 Jan
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      China’s State Grid Corp Crushes Power Transmission Records
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      29 Jan
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      A Noise-Canceling System for People Who Snore
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      VR for Your Ears: Dynamic 3D Audio Is Coming Soon
      24 Jan
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      Zoom and Focus: These Familiar Video Features Are Coming to Audio
      15 Jan
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      CES 2019: The Largest and Smallest Smart Inkjet Printers
      11 Jan

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      25 Jan
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      SIGSALY Analog-to-Digital Converter Construction and Debugging
      25 Jan
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      When Good Engineers Write Bad Software
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      The Strange and Twisted Tale of the Poco Handheld Computer
      21 Dec 2018
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      In Retail’s Shift to Online, The Winner is… Pinball?
      4 Dec 2018
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      How TV-B-Gone’s Mitch Altman Created the ArduTouch Music Synthesizer
      26 Nov 2018

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      Iron-Platinum Catalyst Keeps Fuel Cells Clean, Even in Cold Weather
      30 Jan
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      This Photocell Generates Both Power and Hydrogen
      1 Nov 2018
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      How Solar-Powered, Mobile Water Purifiers Can Help Cities Cope With Bad Water
      18 Oct 2018
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      New Device Marries Solar Cells With Flow Batteries
      27 Sep 2018
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      UPS to Deploy Fuel Cell/Battery Hybrids as Zero-Emission Delivery Trucks
      24 Aug 2018
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      The Troubled Quest for the Superconducting Wind Turbine
      26 Jul 2018

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      Coded for Cuteness: How the Furby Conquered Hearts and Minds
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      Log On Like It’s 1985: A Fragment of Minitel Returns
      18 Dec 2018
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      Ben Franklin’s Other Great Electrical Discovery: Turkey Tenderization
      30 Nov 2018
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      What Does It Take to Keep a Classic Mainframe Alive?
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      From World War II Radar to Microwave Popcorn, the Cavity Magnetron Was There
      31 Oct 2018

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      What’s Better Than 40 GPU-based Computers? A Computer With 40 GPUs
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      18 Jan
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      Apex.AI Does the Invisible Work That Will Make Self-Driving Cars Possible
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      24 Jan
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      VR for Your Ears: Dynamic 3D Audio Is Coming Soon

      A truly realistic experience in VR requires immersive audio. Here’s how to create it
      24 Jan

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      History
      In 1959, AT&T Discovered There Was a Market for a Lady’s Phone
      31 Jan
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      Gadgets
      Consumer Electronics Hall of Fame: The Gadgets You Loved Most
      29 Jan
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      Rebuilding a Piece of the First Digital Voice Scrambler
      25 Jan
    • Illustration: Gillian Blease/Getty Images
      At Work
      How to Lead at Every Stage of Your Engineering Career
      22 Jan
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      Geek Life
      In Retail’s Shift to Online, The Winner is… Pinball?
      4 Dec 2018

    Features

    • A health worker in Bangladesh listens to sounds from a boy’s lungs with the help of the Johns Hopkins smart stethoscope
      Biomedical
      A Smart Stethoscope Puts AI in Medics’ Ears
      31 Jan
    • Photo-illustration: Sean McCabe
      Computing
      Mayhem, the Machine That Finds Software Vulnerabilities, Then Patches Them
      29 Jan
    • Illustration: Dan Page
      Telecom
      Tata Communications’ Countrywide Internet of Things Will Manage the Chaos in India’s Booming Cities
      22 Jan

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      Neural Electrodes Snake Around Blood Vessels, Up Nerves
      30 Jan
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      Semiconductors
      These 3 Electroceuticals Could Help You Heal Faster
      25 Jan
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      Energy
      A Cooler Cloud: A Clever Conduit Cuts Data Centers’ Cooling Needs by 90 Percent
      23 Jan
    • Nissan Leaf “filling up” at a CHAdeMO standard charger.
      Transportation
      China and Japan Push for a Global Charging Standard for EVs
      17 Dec 2018

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      During the 20th Century, Vacuum Tubes Improved in a Moore’s Law-Like Way
      24 Jan
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      A Smart Device Needs to be Useful, Not Just Clever
      18 Jan
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