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The Coming Quantum Boom: A New Industry a Century in the Making

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Why build an industry around a scale that cuts across established verticals? Like Bill Joys infamous gray goo , a silo-busting nanotechnology industry never materialized. The quantum regime, however, is already its own thriving industry, perhaps because the science of it is so unique. According to IEEE Life Member Hausi A.

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Why Engineers Still Need the Humanities

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dean of engineering at the University of Arizona, endorsed this engineering curriculum, in which the humanities accounted for 24 of 89 credits. dean of engineering at the University of Arizona, proposed an engineering curriculum in which the humanities and social sciences accounted for 24 of the 89 credits. Martin, Jr., In 1961, C.R.

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These Companies Were the Patent Powerhouses of 2024

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The tech giant has produced a more influential patent portfolio than entire industry categories. Many companies patent in several industries, but tend to focus on one; others are trickier to label. Robotics : With greater demand for automation, the robotics industry is growing.

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Electric Propulsion Magnets Ready for Space Tests

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The building is home to the Paihau-Robinson Research Institute , part of Victoria University of Wellington. And the technology being developed there could one day reduce the space industrys reliance on chemical rockets. Our focus here is applied-field magnetoplasmadynamic [AF-MPD] thrusters. C (75 kelvin).

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The Many Ways Tariffs Will Hit Your Electronics

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Like the industry he covers, Shawn DuBravac had already had quite a week by the time IEEE Spectrum spoke to him early last Thursday, 10 April 2025. market following a 90-day pause on steeper tariffs that had been unveiled the previous week, the implementation of universal 10 percent tariffs, and a 125 percent tariff on Chinese imports.

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First Supercritical CO2 Circuit Breaker Debuts

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These devices are placed throughout substations, power generation plants, transmission and distribution networks, and industrial facilities where equipment operates in tens to hundreds of kilovolts. The team turned to the petroleum industry to find the parts, and found all but one: the bushing.

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UK Greenlights Amazon Kuiper, Starlink Faces New Rival

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The move places Kuiper systems in a rival position with the industry leader, and SpaceX subsidiary, Starlink Services. As one analyst from Copenhagen-based Strand Consult recently put it in the industry publication Broadband Breakfast , Kuiper now is just a burger bar, while [Starlink Services] runs an interstellar McDonalds.

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