engineer
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Meanwhile Travis Lelle, principal security engineer at cyber-security consulting firm Guidepoint Security, said the update marked a "sobering moment in cyber-security".
From BBC ● Jul. 22, 2026
As Hollywood frantically tries to replicate the success of “Obsession,” other aspirant directors and musicians are trying to reverse engineer the right-place, right-time magic.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 21, 2026
Yorkville Advisors helped engineer a planned merger between Trump Media and fusion firm TAE Technologies to create a $6 billion publicly traded company.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 21, 2026
In a separate set of experiments, environmental engineer Dr. Amit Kumar combined cold atmospheric plasma with gas dispersion to destroy PFAS.
From Science Daily ● Jul. 20, 2026
But the president of the Icelandic Chess Federation, thirty-two-year-old Gudmundur Thorarinsson, a soft-spoken engineer with an interest in Shakespeare, was wary of Bobby.
From "Endgame" by Frank Brady
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Chinese engineers were locked into Nvidia’s software tools, which could barely be used with domestic chips.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 24, 2026
For example, engineers who want to create a longer signal delay or work with a different frequency range often need to design and manufacture an entirely new photonic device.
From Science Daily ● Jul. 22, 2026
Rather, it aims to expand the pool of scientists, technical experts, engineers and mathematicians beyond the traditional candidates.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 21, 2026
With nearly a 1:1 ratio of engineers to bankers, it’s a far cry from how many Wall Street firms position engineers, who are often holed up in New Jersey back offices, Eldarov said.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 20, 2026
A month later both Thomas’s dad and my dad were laid off, along with a whole bunch of other engineers at Harris.
From "Sir Fig Newton and the Science of Persistence" by Sonja Thomas
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Although HiRIC's exposure time has not been released publicly, the camera was engineered for precise timing and rapid operation.
From Science Daily ● Jul. 24, 2026
The fibers are engineered to a length that enables them to resonate, producing a return that confuses enemy radar or tricks radar-guided missiles into locking onto the wrong target.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 22, 2026
To improve the process, Dai, Jin Geng, Dianpeng Qi and colleagues engineered Bacillus subtilis to produce two polymer-degrading enzymes that work together.
From Science Daily ● Jul. 17, 2026
The universal popularity of USB-C means the market is now flooded with cheaply made, poorly engineered charging accessories.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 13, 2026
In January 1939, the cyclotron’s six-ton vacuum tank, engineered by Bill Brobeck, was slid in between the magnet poles.
From "Big Science" by Michael Hiltzik
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To critics who dismiss the project as "garage engineering" or amateurism, Terekh says she is "very proud" of their roots.
From Barron's ● Jul. 24, 2026
"The demonstration mission will set the stage before our next giant leap. NASA's expertise in systems engineering and integration, as well as launch and mission operations in low Earth orbit, will bring the mission together."
From Science Daily ● Jul. 23, 2026
That was true for Manit, an 18-year-old engineering student.
From BBC ● Jul. 22, 2026
The firm launched in May with the acquisition of AI consulting and engineering firm Tomoro, which brought in a team of 150.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 22, 2026
These three diligent layers of cells perform all the intricate science and engineering needed to keep a tree alive, and the efficiency with which they do it is one of the wonders of life.
From "A Walk in the Woods" by Bill Bryson
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