The introductions of data-flow programming techniques to smartcamera vision systems promises to change the way these systems are deployed. Consider a pick-and-place machine. Here a proximity sensor ...

A variety of techniques can minimize how much power your microcontroller needs, extending battery life or reducing how hard your energy harvesting systems have to work. Minimizing power requirements ...

Logic gates made of DNA could one day operate in your bloodstream, collectively making medical decisions and taking action. For now, they play a mean game of in vitro tic-tac-toe From a modern chemist ...

Who would have thought that some day we’d need programming jigs for our light bulbs? But progress marches on, and as there’s currently a number of affordable Internet-controlled bulbs powered by the ...

Microsoft and OpenAI have collaborated to build an AI pair-programming system called GitHub Copilot. Copilot, now available in preview as a Visual Studio Code extension, is meant to help programmers ...

Smart thermostats are all the buzz these days, but you're right—some of it is just a matter of smart programming. Here's what a smart thermostat can offer you, and how to decide whether you really ...

Making “programmable money” just got easier for bitcoin developers thanks to enterprise blockchain company Chain Inc.’s release of Ivy, a compiler and integrated development environment for writing ...

Extreme weather events and other climate-driven disasters are hardest on children. UNICEF is mainstreaming climate-smart programming — working with and within communities to protect and empower young ...