MIT engineers created stamp-sized stickers that can see inside the body:...
Engineers from MIT have created a wearable ultrasound medical device. The stamp-sized sticker can provide live, high-resolution internal ultrasound imaging for 48 hours. "We believe we've opened a new era of wearable imaging," the study's senior author said. Loading Something is loading. Engineers from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology have created a stamp-sized sticker that…
A Google engineer claimed the company’s AI chatbot was sentient. Then...
Blake Lemoine claimed Google's AI chatbot was sentient and shared documents with a US senator. Lemoine told The New York Times that he was placed on paid leave on Monday. The company's HR informed Lemoine that he had violated their confidentiality policy. Loading Something is loading. The senior Google software engineer who claimed that the…
An engineer has actually developed a method to stop Arctic ice...
The Arctic is melting at unprecedented rates: Greenland's ice is disappearing six times faster than it was four decades ago. In August, the ice sheet lost 60 billion tons in just 5 days of summer thaw. Over the last four decades, we've lost 75% of the volume of Arctic ice. The current extent of the sea…
Previous Yahoo engineer confesses utilizing his access to take users’ sexual...
Enlarge / A sign outside a Yahoo corporate building in Los Angeles. A former Yahoo software engineer has pleaded guilty to hacking into thousands of users’ accounts in search of sexually explicit images and videos and other types of private data. Reyes Daniel Ruiz on Monday admitted to using his access as a Yahoo engineer…
Researchers craft a blinking human eye reproduction on a dime-sized chip
Hasta la vista, baby. University of Pennsylvania The human eye is so hugely complex Charles Darwin, father of evolution, once remarked it was "absurd in the highest degree" that it could arise through natural selection. Its complexity has made it difficult to replicate and model, meaning scientists have to test cells of the eye in…
A Microsoft engineer states that making use of Linux has actually...
A Microsoft engineer says that use the popular open source Linux operating system has now overtaken Windows on its own Microsoft Azure cloud platform. In an application to have Microsoft join a Linux security mailing list, Sasha Levin, a Linux developer at Microsoft, wrote on Thursday: "The Linux usage on our cloud has surpassed Windows."…
NASA engineer informs ladies in STEM: Do not be concealed figures
Poppy Northcutt was the first woman to work in an operational support role in NASA's Mission Control Center. She spoke Wednesday at the Girls in Tech Catalyst Conference in San Francisco. Angela Lang/CNET No one had ever seen a woman in NASA's Mission Control Center before Poppy Northcutt stepped in the room. In 1968, during…
An engineer at a $2 billion start-up likewise runs an international...
Ola Sendecka got into coding through an unusual route — art history. Back when she was a teenager in Poland, she was getting ready to decide what to study at university. Art was a passion but the employment opportunities were limited. Instead, her teacher mooted a different kind of art that was coming increasingly into…
A female engineer at Google states her cautions to the business...
A female engineer at Google wrote in a Medium post that the company ignored a coworker's disturbing obsession with her feet, ultimately leading her to seek psychiatric help, in another example of the tech giant's struggle to adequately address improper behavior at the workplace. Lea Coligado — a female engineer on the Google Maps team…
