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mbeddr is a set of integrated and extensible languages for embedded software engineering, plus an IDE (built on JetBrains MPS – Meta Programming System). It supports implementation, testing, verification and process aspects. It integrates with command-line build tools and integration servers, as wel...
Machine Bias: There’s Software Used Across the Country to Predict Future Criminals. And it’s Biased Against Blacks.
(propublica.org)
In a nutshell: Blacks who don't commit subsequent offenses get higher "risk scores" than whites who do commit subsequent offenses.
freedom-delayed: Checklist for projects that have promised to liberate software in the future
(notabug.org)
(but so far, haven't)
Microsoft to acquire Intentional Software to expand future productivity capabilities
(blogs.microsoft.com)
Trimmed abstract: "A popular specification language for these formal specifications is temporal logic, due to its intuitive, yet precise expressions that can be utilized to both specify and verify fundamental properties pertaining to software systems. Temporal logic can express properties pertaining...
A clear semiconductor based on tin could improve solar power generation. Mobility is a key parameter for semiconductor performance and relates to how quickly and easily electrons can move inside a substance. Researchers have achieved the highest mobility among thin films of tin dioxide ever reported...
The basic units of a quantum computer can be rearranged in 2D to solve typical design and operation challenges. Quantum computing is increasingly becoming the focus of scientists in fields such as physics and chemistry, and industrialists in the pharmaceutical, airplane, and automobile industries. G...
Soon, your clothes may be able to monitor your vital signs, analyze the results, and warn you of health risks. In an opinion piece published in the journal Matter, members of the Fibers@MIT research group recently laid out a detailed vision for how the rapidly growing field of advanced fibers and fa...
NASA is improving a flight software system to help create and certify essential software for the lunar Gateway. As part of the Artemis program, NASA will send astronauts to the Moon and establish a sustained lunar presence by the end of the decade. The Gateway will provide a waypoint for lunar explo...
Manipulating Magnets at the Atomic Scale for Fast and Energy-Efficient Future Data Processing
(scitechdaily.com)
Fast and energy-efficient future data processing technologies are on the horizon after an international team of scientists successfully manipulated magnets at the atomic level. Physicist Dr Rostislav Mikhaylovskiy from Lancaster University said: “With stalling efficiency trends of current tech...
DNA Origami Enables Fabricating Superconducting Nanowires for Nanoelectronic Circuits of the Future
(scitechdaily.com)
Fabricating nanoelectronic circuits of the future just got a lot more interesting, thanks to DNA origami. The quest for ever-smaller electronic components led an international group of researchers to explore using molecular building blocks to create them. DNA is able to self-assemble into arbitrary ...
A laser-driven spin current enables low-energy magnetic switching, offering a breakthrough for sustainable data storage The digital data generated around the world every year is now counted in zettabytes, or trillions of billions of bytes — equivalent to delivering data for hundreds of millions of b...
Soft, Mechanical Metamaterial That Can “Think” Offers Potential of Helpful “Living” Machines in the Future
(scitechdaily.com)
New soft, responsive metamaterial holds potential for wide variety of societal benefits. Engineered, autonomous machines combined with artificial intelligence have long been a staple of science fiction, and often in the role of villains like the Cylons in the “Battlestar Galactica” reboo...