A chatbot turns hostile. A test version of a Roomba vacuum collects images of users in private situations. A Black woman is falsely identified as a suspect on the basis of facial recognition software, which tends to be less accurate at identifying women and people of color. These incidents are not just glitches, but examples […]
Engineers working to clear the wreckage of the collapsed Francis Scott Key Bridge in Baltimore said they expect to be able to restore navigation in and out of the city’s port by the end of this month. The bridge collapsed on March 26 after being struck by the cargo ship Dali, which lost power shortly […]
Crews of engineers have begun the dangerous and intricate job of removing the mangled wreckage of the Francis Scott Key Bridge from the Patapsco River outside Baltimore, as top federal government and Maryland state officials stressed Sunday that the health of the US national economy depended on it. Officials took to the political talkshows Sunday […]
Teams of engineers are continuing the intricate process of cutting and lifting the first section of twisted steel from the collapsed Francis Scott Key Bridge, which crumpled into the Patapsco River this week after a cargo ship crashed into one of its supports. Sparks could be seen flying from a section of bent and crumpled […]
The cargo ship collision that destroyed the Francis Scott Key Bridge in Baltimore on March 26, 2024, is raising questions about just how much engineers can do to prevent such catastrophes from occurring in the future. Here, Michael J. Chajes, a professor of civil and environmental engineering at the University of Delaware, discusses how bridge […]
Humans are very good at spotting patterns, or repeating features people can recognize. For instance, ancient Polynesians navigated across the Pacific by recognizing many patterns, from the stars’ constellations to more subtle ones such as the directions and sizes of ocean swells. Very recently, mathematicians like me have started to study large collections of objects […]
WARSAW, Poland (AP) — Two Polish military engineers died on Monday following the detonation of TNT during a training exercise at a military facility in southern Poland, the defense minister said. Defense Minister Władysław Kosiniak-Kamysz said that two sappers with a chemical regiment died in Solarnia in the southern region of Silesia. “In these tragic […]
Mar. 12—ST. PAUL — The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers has awarded a $42.2 million contract to build a four-mile segment of the Fargo-Moorhead metro flood protection project’s 21-mile earthen embankment. The contract was awarded Monday, March 11, to R.J. Zavoral & Sons Inc. of East Grand Forks, Minnesota. The section of the embankment the […]
At a training ground, Ukrainian engineers have showcased their robotic platforms to military medics for the evacuation of the wounded from the battlefield. Source: Ministry of Strategic Industries of Ukraine in a comment to Ekonomichna Pravda Details: At the demonstration trials, products from seven manufacturers were presented: Terra Traverse, Robotic Complexes, Keep Robotics, Trident Technologies, […]
The Bastrop City Council unanimously approved a measure on Tuesday allowing the city to hire engineers and surveyors to complete engineering projects already past their due dates. City Manager Sylvia Carrillo said she hopes to hire professional service providers for city projects eligible for funding under the American Rescue Plan grant and Community Development Block […]
With its bright colors, easy-to-learn rules and familiar music, the video game Tetris has endured as a pop culture icon over the last 40 years. Many people, like me, have been playing the game for decades, and it has evolved to adapt to new technologies like game systems, phones and tablets. But until January 2024, […]
Engineering the future: celebrating innovation and sustainability Consider a world that produces everyday items without draining natural resources, and where toxic emissions are a thing of the past. Now, imagine a place where robots check bridges, looking for structural anomalies years before they would ever become a safety risk. In this same space, medical researchers […]