A Cook County Illinois Circuit Court judge has ruled that the county violated the state constitution by using $243 million in transportation tax revenue during fiscal 2023 for non-transportation purposes, handing a legal win to a statewide…
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New study unveils ultra-high sensitivity broadband flexible photodetectors
A research team, affiliated with UNIST, has unveiled a flexible photodetector, capable of converting light across a broad spectrum—from visible to near-infrared—into electrical signals. This innovation promises significant advancements in…
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New York City Adopts New Energy, Existing Building Codes
In a significant shift in how it regulates construction and renovations, New York City adopted a new Existing Building Code and an updated Energy Conservation Code. The move puts its regulations more closely aligned with international model…
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New York City Adopts New Energy Conservation and Building Codes
New York City has made a major change in its approach to regulating construction and renovations by adopting a new Existing Building Code along with an updated Energy Conservation Code. The move puts its regulations more closely aligned with…
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Hyundai-Kia safety tech spots people in blind spots with 99% accuracy
South Korea’s automotive giants Hyundai Motor Company and Kia Corporation have recently launched a new driver-safety technology that uses radar to detect people and vehicles even through blind spots.
The system, called Vision Pulse, is…
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Videos: Multitasking Robots, Skiing Bipedal Bots, More
Video Friday is your weekly selection of awesome robotics videos, collected by your friends at IEEE Spectrum robotics. We also post a weekly calendar of upcoming robotics events for the next few months. Please send us your events for inclusion.
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'Thermal diode' design promises to improve heat regulation, prolonging battery life
New technology from University of Houston researchers could improve the way devices manage heat, thanks to a technique that allows heat to flow in only one direction. The innovation is known as thermal rectification, and was developed by Bo Zhao,…
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US declassifies top secret spy satellites that tracked Soviet threats
The US National Reconnaissance Office (NRO) has just declassified a pioneering spy satellite program called ‘JUMPSEAT’, providing a window into some of its early surveillance operations.
The NRO’s JUMPSEAT spy satellites reached a…
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New York Robotics launches with 160 startups in its ecosystem
Robotics experts, including Jacob Hennessey-Rubin, co-founder of NYR (right), testifying in favor of Massachusetts’ bill to ban weaponized robots. | Source: New York Robotics
New York Robotics, a nonprofit dedicated to advancing the robotics…
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Scientists unlock 36x bio-jet fuel yields with AI, microbial ‘bad habit’
Scientists at the Joint BioEnergy Institute (JBEI) have developed two methods to accelerate the engineering of microbes for jet fuel production, reducing development timelines from years to weeks.
“If widely adopted, these approaches…
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