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The Micro Bit’s Mega Promise

Eylül 9, 2025 • technewsworld.com

The BBC last week announced that it would give programming PCs to 1 million students through its Make It Digital initiative, an effort to spark greater interest in technology. The 11- and 12-year-old UK school children will receive Micro Bit, a stripped-down computer that can be worn on a lanyard. Similar to the Raspberry Pi,…

Big Robo-Bird Trains to Be Fastest on 2 Feet

Eylül 9, 2025 • technewsworld.com

Becoming the fastest of its kind is just a byproduct of the ATRIAS robot’s primary objective. Oregon State University’s biped is the focus of a loftier goal: to build an entire industry on its leg locomotion mechanics. ATRIAS (Assume The Robot Is A Sphere) has its origins at OSU, but there are three prototypes of…

Obama Lauds STEM Progress at White House Science Fair

Eylül 9, 2025 • technewsworld.com

President Obama on Monday announced US$240 million in new pledges from private businesses, schools and foundations across the country for STEM (science, technology, engineering and math) education. The president also announced that a national goal set four years ago to provide 98 percent of Americans with high-speed wireless Internet has been reached ahead of schedule.…

Wood Chips: Electronics May Go Back to Nature

Eylül 9, 2025 • technewsworld.com

“Wood chips” takes on new meaning with a new green technology, cellulose nanofibril, or CNF, developed by researchers at the University of Wisconsin-Madison and the U.S. Department of Agriculture Forest Products Laboratory and detailed in a research paper published this week in Nature Communications. The “chips” in question are indeed made mostly of wood —…

Robots Meet DARPA Challenge Despite Pratfalls

Eylül 9, 2025 • technewsworld.com

Robots from Korea and the United States staggered off with the top three prizes at the DARPA Robotics Challenge, held in Pomona, California, over the weekend. In all, robots from 23 teams participated in the challenge, which consisted of an obstacle course simulating conditions similar to those following the Fukushima nuclear plant disaster. The U.S.…

Beware the Killer Robots

Eylül 9, 2025 • technewsworld.com

Russia’s advanced military combat robot — which has drawn alarmed comparisons to Hollywood’s Terminator — will be able to run and clear an obstacle course by late this year, according to reports that surfaced this week. That’s just the latest news fueling the already-fiery debate over what to do about killer robots. UC Berkeley Computer…

Hyperloop Dreams May Become Concrete

Eylül 9, 2025 • technewsworld.com

SpaceX this week announced plans to construct a mile-long Hyperloop test track next to its headquarters in Hawthorne, California, scheduled for completion by June 2016. The company concurrently announced an opencompetition for university students and independent engineering teams to design and build the best Hyperloop pod. Entrants will be able to test their pods on…

Artificial Intelligence Dreamtime

Eylül 9, 2025 • technewsworld.com

Google researchers last month reported progress in advancing the image classification and speech recognition capabilities of artificial neural networks. Image classification and speech recognition tools are based on well-known mathematical methods, but why certain models work while others don’t has been hazy, noted software engineers Alexander Mordvintsev and Mike Tyka, and software engineering intern Christopher…

Truth May Be Wiggly in Wikipedia’s Hot-Button Science Articles

Eylül 9, 2025 • technewsworld.com

Users should take extra care when exploring Wikipedia’s science topics, because many articles on controversial issues such as global warming and acid rain have been targeted for editing by revisionists who reject scientific findings, new research has found. Due to its crowdsourced model, academics widely regard Wikipedia as a starting point for research — a…

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