Robotic Tortoise Helps Kids to Learn That Robot Abuse Is a Bad Thing
From IEEE Spectrum By Evan Ackerman Kids like to touch things. Kids like to whack things. This is usually fine when the thing is a toy, but it can be a problem when the thing is a robot. We’ve written about children beating robots up before, and it seems like it’s an inevitability when kids […]
NASA Celebrates Pi Day with 18 Ways Pi Helps Explore Space
Craters can tell scientists a lot about the surfaces of planets, moons and other bodies. Just by determining how circular a given crater is – using pi and the crater’s perimeter and area – planetary geologists can reveal clues about how the crater was formed and the surface that was impacted. Each year across the […]
Stephen Hawking: Intel Remembers the Famed Physicist
News of the death of Dr. Stephen Hawking was greeted with sadness by many Intel employees who worked with the famed British physicist. On Wednesday morning, they spoke of their good fortune at having been able to work with him and the grace and humor with which he lived his life. Intel issued an official […]
Indium Corporation Experts to Present at Conference on Electronics in Harsh Environments
Two Indium Corporation experts will present at the Electronics in Harsh Environments Conference on April 24-26 in Amsterdam, Netherlands. Karthik Vijay, Technical Manager for Europe, Africa, and the Middle East will deliver two presentations. Vijay’s first presentation, A Novel Solder Alloy for Service Temperatures of 150–175°C in Automotive Applications, details the performance of a novel SnAgCuSb solder alloy as compared against the […]
Is Cloud Computing Over?
By Eric Miscoll, EMSNOW Publisher I don’t know if you noticed, but we may have entered a new era where, just like how you want your vegetables, data is best served up from local sources. In fact, in an article in January’s Economist I just read (yes, I am behind in my periodicals), the author […]