A Decade-Long Search for a Battery That Can End the Gasoline Era - Can a small Massachusetts start-up perfect a battery that would make electric vehicles ch... - https://www.nytimes.com/2025/05/09/business/mercedes-factorial-solid-state-battery.html #fuelemissions(transportation) #contenttype:personalprofile #electricandhybridvehicles #factoriesandmanufacturing #oil(petroleum)andgasoline #computersandtheinternet #engineeringandengineers #greenhousegasemissions #cheonan(southkorea) #yualex

U.S. Oil Production Is Booming. Oil Jobs Are Not. - The industry is pumping ever more oil and natural gas, but it is doing so with only about... - https://www.nytimes.com/2025/01/14/business/energy-environment/oil-gas-jobs.html #mergersacquisitionsanddivestitures #economicconditionsandtrends #permianbasin(northamerica) #oil(petroleum)andgasoline #prices(faresfeesandrates) #shutdowns(institutional) #layoffsandjobreductions #engineeringandengineers #coronavirus(2019-ncov) #wagesandsalaries

Robots Get a Fleshy Face (and a Smile) in New Research - Researchers at the University of Tokyo published findings on a method of attaching artifi... - https://www.nytimes.com/2024/06/30/science/japan-robots-human-face.html #engineeringandengineers #robotsandrobotics #innovation #research #japan #skin #face

Mark Zuckerberg is Popular Again Thanks to Meta’s Open-Source AI - After some trying years during which Mr. Zuckerberg could do little right, many developer... - https://www.nytimes.com/2024/05/29/technology/mark-zuckerberg-meta-ai.html #computersandtheinternet #engineeringandengineers #artificialintelligence #open-sourcesoftware #metaplatformsinc #zuckerbergmarke #socialmedia #facebookinc #openailabs #software

The Itsy Bitsy Spider Inspired a Microphone - If spiders use their webs like a large external eardrum, researchers reasoned, perhaps sp... - https://www.nytimes.com/2024/05/16/science/spider-web-microphone-silk.html #acousticalsocietyofamerica #engineeringandengineers #inventionsandpatents #your-feed-science #your-feed-animals #silkandsilkgoods #earsandhearing #acoustics #research #spiders

Andres Freund, el ingeniero que previno un posible ciberataque global - Un ingeniero de Microsoft notó que algo andaba mal en un software en el que había trabaja... - https://www.nytimes.com/es/2024/04/05/espanol/andres-freund-ciberataque-global.html #computersandtheinternet #engineeringandengineers #linux(operatingsystem) #cyberattacksandhackers #open-sourcesoftware #computersecurity #microsoftcorp #freundandres

How Boeing Favored Speed Over Quality for the 737 Max - Problems have plagued the manufacturer even after two fatal crashes, and many current and... - https://www.nytimes.com/2024/03/28/business/boeing-quality-problems-speed.html #internationalassnofmachinistsandaerospaceworkers #boeing737maxgroundingsandsafetyconcerns(2019) #aviationaccidentssafetyanddisasters #regulationandderegulationofindustry #factoriesandmanufacturing #layoffsandjobreductions #engineeringandengineers #stocksandbonds

A Shape-Shifting Plastic With a Flexible Future - The material can be tempered into different shapes — like steel in the hands of a blacksm... - https://www.nytimes.com/2024/02/01/science/shape-shifting-plastic.html #recyclingofwastematerials #engineeringandengineers #spaceandastronomy #your-feed-science #science(journal) #chemistry #plastics #research

Google Cuts Hundreds of Jobs in Engineering and Other Divisions - The company, which has been working to trim expenses, laid off employees who worked on co... - https://www.nytimes.com/2024/01/11/technology/google-layoffs.html #layoffsandjobreductions #computersandtheinternet #engineeringandengineers #artificialintelligence #laborandjobs #alphabetinc #googleinc

Luiz Barroso, Who Supercharged Google’s Reach, Dies at 59 - In designing warehouse-size data centers that behaved like a single computer, he changed ... - https://www.nytimes.com/2023/12/13/technology/luiz-barroso-dead.html #computersandtheinternet #engineeringandengineers #barrosoluiz(1964-2023) #deaths(obituaries) #searchengines #datacenters #googleinc

Big Explosions and Major Progress in SpaceX’s 2nd Starship Launch - The journeys of Starship’s two parts ended in separate explosions. But the engineers at E... - https://www.nytimes.com/2023/11/18/science/spacex-starship-launch.html #nationalaeronauticsandspaceadministration #spaceexplorationtechnologiescorp #rocketscienceandpropulsion #engineeringandengineers #explosions(accidental) #privatespaceflight #spaceandastronomy #muskelon #moon

Aided by A.I. Language Models, Google’s Robots Are Getting Smart - Our sneak peek into Google’s new robotics model, RT-2, which melds artificial intelligenc... - https://www.nytimes.com/2023/07/28/technology/google-robots-ai.html #engineeringandengineers #deepmindtechnologiesltd #artificialintelligence #robotsandrobotics #alphabetinc #googleinc #research #chatgpt

As Businesses Clamor for Workplace A.I., Tech Companies Rush to Provide It - Amazon, Box, Salesforce, Oracle and others have recently rolled out A.I.-related products... - https://www.nytimes.com/2023/07/05/technology/business-ai-technology.html #computersandtheinternet #engineeringandengineers #advertisingandmarketing #artificialintelligence #enterprisecomputing #oraclecorporation #ciscosystemsinc #amazon.cominc #microsoftcorp #openailabs #cohereinc #software #chatgpt #boxinc

Don Bateman, Trailblazer in Airline Safety, Dies at 91 - His cockpit warning system, which alerts the crew if an aircraft is heading toward a moun... - https://www.nytimes.com/2023/06/02/technology/don-bateman-dead.html #aviationaccidentssafetyanddisasters #honeywellinternationalinc #engineeringandengineers #batemandon(1932-2023) #airlinesandairplanes #deaths(obituaries) #sensors

Boeing and NASA Delay Launch of Starliner Over Parachutes and Wiring - The Starliner capsule was poised to fly people to orbit in July for the first time. But r... - https://www.nytimes.com/2023/06/01/science/nasa-boeing-starliner-delay.html #nationalaeronauticsandspaceadministration #aviationaccidentssafetyanddisasters #parachutesandparachutejumping #rocketscienceandpropulsion #internationalspacestation #engineeringandengineers #privatespaceflight #spaceandastronomy #your-feed-science

Inside How TikTok Shares User Data - Employees of the Chinese-owned video app have regularly posted user information on a mess... - https://www.nytimes.com/2023/05/24/technology/inside-how-tiktok-shares-user-data-lark.html #data-mininganddatabasemarketing #beijingbytedancetechnologycoltd #corporatesocialresponsibility #computersandtheinternet #engineeringandengineers #internationalrelations #mobileapplications #tiktok(bytedance) #driverslicenses #socialmedia #privacy

Silicon Valley Chosen for $4 Billion Chip Research Center - Anticipating federal subsidies, Applied Materials said it planned to invest up to $4 bill... - https://www.nytimes.com/2023/05/22/technology/applied-materials-silicon-valley.html #factoriesandmanufacturing #computersandtheinternet #engineeringandengineers #siliconvalley(calif) #appliedmaterialsinc #computerchips #innovation #research