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December 12, 2025
 
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Engineer shaking hands with project manager.

Results indicate that manufacturers and engineers alike believe there are good things to come.

 

 
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Legacy web forms within supplier portals are being exploited to ignite devasting data breaches.

 
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The company expects the project to create 150 jobs.

 

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The Utah researchers outfitted a commercial prosthetic hand with custom fingertips that detect pressure. These fingertips also were equipped with optical proximity sensors capable of “seeing” objects before they made contact with the hand. These sensors allow the AI to assist the user with the fine movements that are critical to dexterous grasping and holding.

Researchers use AI to finetune robotic prosthesis to improve manual dexterity.

 
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A software developer identified three major trends.

 

A mountable hands-free blower for static elimination at assembly stations for benchtop applications. It is designed to neutralize static charges on surfaces in demanding industrial settings where static can become troublesome.

 
L3Harris’ Guided Multiple Launch Rocket System Insensitive Munition propulsion units.

The follow-on production contract is valued up to $200 million.

 
Trace Systems' logo.

Expanding Trace’s role in advancing space-enabled, multi-domain C2 and digital-engineering solutions.

 

The key to combatting these ongoing and constantly evolving threats is understanding them. And the good news is that the good guys are getting better at spotting bad actors and showing you how to fight back. These are some of the latest hacking trends and how to protect your company from them.  

 
Astrobee is NASA’s free-flying robotic system. Using Astrobee, Stanford researchers became the first to test AI-based robotic control aboard the International Space Station.

New technology could free up time for astronauts while expanding robotics-based exploration.

 
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Featuring a nut that rolls on the ball spline shaft, making it capable of linear and rotary motion.

 

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Unsold 2024 F150 pickup trucks sit in a long row at a Ford dealership Sunday, Jan. 21, 2024, in Broomfield, Colo.

Here's why.

 
A BAE Systems Aerospace artist concept.

Fast Labs organization awarded $16 million contract for DARPA's Oversight program.

 

In the face of rapidly shifting global trade dynamics, here's how to build resilience and flexibility for your business.

 
Borussia Dortmund supporters react ahead of the Champions League opening phase soccer match between Borussia Dortmund and Bodo Glimt in Dortmund, Germany, Wednesday, Dec. 10, 2025.

The company recently announced record figures for the first nine months of 2025.

 
Local businessman Mohammad Amiri, 35, right, sorts out spools of thread for making socks as he works with his staff, all people with disabilities, in his sock production workshop in the western Afghan city of Herat, Afghanistan, Monday, Dec. 8, 2025.

The facility currently employs around 50 workers, with ambitions of expanding to 2,000.

 
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Safety is a problem for the market leader in an already strained transformer supply chain.

 

 
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