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This Idea Wasn't All Wet: The Sensing Water-Saving Shower Head Debuts

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In 2012, with California in the midst of a severe drought, Schneider, then a mechanical engineering graduate student at Stanford University , once again tossed out a “cool idea.” He imagined a shower head that would sense when the person showering moved out from under the stream of water.

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Heating Buildings With Solar Energy Stored in Sand

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As we try to objectively study nature, we are often reminded of how natural forces affect us personally. When we turn up the heat in our homes and workplaces, we must balance our personal need for warmth with the global impact of burning fossil fuels like oil, gas, coal, and biomass.

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This Rwandan Engineer is Learning How to Manage Humanitarian Projects

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The IEEE member from Kigali, Rwanda, participated in installing portable sinks in nearby rural markets to curb the spread of COVID-19 and provided clean water and sanitation services to people displaced by the Mount Nyiragongo volcano eruption in 2021. They also need to know how to pitch an idea and make a proposal so they can get funding.”

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What Robotics Experts Think of Tesla’s Optimus Robot

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After a year of speculation based on little more than a person in a robot suit combined with some optimistic assertions made by Tesla CEO Elon Musk , many roboticists tuned in to the event livestream (or attended in person) to see what Tesla’s approach to humanoid robotics would turn out to be. BACK TO TOP ↑ ]. Animesh Garg.

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AI’s Threats to Jobs and Human Happiness Are Real

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Universal basic income. Charles Simonyi , the person who created Microsoft word. Lee: Let’s say someone is talented and could become an architect, but that person just graduated from college and isn’t there yet. If you expect an assembly line worker to become a robot repair person, it isn’t going to be so easy." —Kai-Fu

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Lewis H. Latimer: A Life of Lightbulb Moments

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James Weldon Johnson ’s hymn “ Lift Every Voice and Sing , ” adopted by African Americans as the unofficial “Negro National Anthem,” includes the line, “We have come over a way that with tears has been watered,” which sums up how Black Americans have found ways to thrive under conditions they weren’t meant to survive.

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Car Crash Prevention System Wins Student $10,000 IEEE Scholarship

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Hacettepe University , in Ankara. IEEE Presidents' Scholarship , which is payable over four years of undergraduate university study. In fact, the very idea of it seeming impossible is what motivated him to pursue the project, he says. Rip currents are dangerous phenomena that can pull swimmers into deep water.

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