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June 28th, 2023

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R.F.K. Jr. Is a Walking, Talking Conspiracy Theory

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Let’s start with some positive things about Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s campaign for president.Tick, tick, tick …OK, I really do have some. Sort of. But let’s get the downside out of the way first.There’s his anti-vax crusade. Kennedy has claimed that Covid vaccin... More »

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EV Interference Doesn’t Have to Kill AM Radio

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4 min readAutomakers including BMW, Ford, Mazda, Polestar, Rivian, Tesla, Volkswagen, and Volvo have removed AM radios from their EVs. The reasons for their doing so, however, are not entirely in the clear. Arguably, AM radio can—with judicious changes to the ... More »

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How to protect yourself from wildfire smoke

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Only weeks after Canadian wildfires blanketed the Northeastern United States in thick smoke, the ongoing fires are sending across the Midwest more air deemed unhealthy by the Environmental Protection Agency.Detroit and Cleveland are currently experiencing air ... More »

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Intel and Nvidia Square Off in GPT-3 Time Trials

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4 min readComputers using Nvidia's H100 GPU dominated the MLPerf training benchmarks, including the first benchmark test for training the large language model GPT-3. For the first time, a large language model—a key driver of recent AI hype and hope—has been a... More »

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How Remote Sensing Technologies Increase Food Production

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6 min readFellow Melba Crawford [middle] proudly displays her IEEE Mildred Dresselhaus Medal at the IEEE Honors Ceremony. She is accompanied by IEEE President-Elect Thomas Coughlin [left] and IEEE President Saifur Rahman. Robb Cohen Photography You might... More »

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Pneumatic Actuators Give Robot Cheetah-Like Acceleration

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4 min readA cheetah in the wild demonstrates phenomenal turn-on-a-dime capabilities and other high-speed maneuvers of an apex predator on the hunt. Roboticists at the University of Cape Town are studying the finer details of cheetah anatomy and dynamics to imb... More »

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