Northwestern's McCormick School of Engineering

Cultivating Data-Driven Approaches with Plant Science

Launched this winter, the Data-Driven Plant Science course bridges experimental biology with embedded sensing, bioinformatics, and machine learning.

Do Those Friday The 13th-Like LED Face Masks Work? A Doctor Explains

LED face masks are a fast-growing skincare trend, but do they work? A physician reviews the clinical evidence, regulatory gaps and what to look for before you buy.
CNX Software

LichtBit’s open-source ESP32 Art-Net/sACN NeoPixels controller can drive up to 2,720 RGB LEDs

Dutch hardware designer LichtBit has launched a fully open-source ESP32-based Art-Net/sACN NeoPixels LED strip controller designed for large-scale lighting installations and custom stage design. Built ...
Circuit Digest

How to Do Helmet Detection with ESP32-CAM Using CircuitDigest Cloud

Let's see a step-by-step procedure on how to build the object detection system using the CircuitDigest Cloud Helmet detection ...
The Guardian

I knew my writing students were using AI. Their confessions led to a powerful teaching moment

The problem wasn’t just the perfectly polished, yet mediocre prose. It’s what’s lost when we surrender the struggle to translate thought into words I have been teaching fiction writing at MIT since ...
Wired

Using AI for Just 10 Minutes Might Make You Lazy and Dumb, Study Shows

Using AI chatbots for even just 10 minutes may have a shockingly negative impact on people’s ability to think and problem-solve, according to a new study from researchers at Carnegie Mellon, MIT, ...
Wall Street Journal

We’re Using So Much AI That Computing Firepower Is Running Out

What really happens after you hit enter on that AI prompt? WSJ’s Joanna Stern heads inside a data center to trace the journey and then grills up some steaks to show just how much energy it takes to ...
AV Network

Direct View LED Explained: How dvLEDs Work, Pixel Pitch, Cost, and Use Cases

ViewSonic’s Shane Roma discusses how dvLED technology works, what pixel pitch means, how organizations deploy LED video walls, and how integrators design these systems. When you purchase through links ...
SDxCentral

Microsoft unveils micro LED innovation to halve data center energy use

Microsoft revealed that it is developing a data center networking technology using micro LED technology with the potential to reduce energy consumption and improve performance as demand for AI and ...
NPR

A college student's perspective on using AI in class

[Maximilian Milovidov is a freshman at Columbia University and a member of TikTok's Youth Council. He used a large language model to edit this essay for length and a human to edit for content. This ...
CNN

I’ve had the viral Shark CryoGlow LED Mask for over a year. Here’s why it’s the only one I’ll ever use

LED masks seem to be the “it” skin care device of the moment. In general, they’ve been shown to stimulate skin’s collagen and elastin production using specific wavelengths of light, which correlate to ...