This Remote Island Is Home to Seals, Seabirds, and a Top-Level Domain

Bouvet Island's most valuable resource might be its untapped .bv country code | Continue reading


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Stealthy Startup Aims to Reinvent AI for Manufacturing

Some 400 engineers are working under the radar at AutoLab AI with former Autodesk CEOs leading the pack | Continue reading


@spectrum.ieee.org | 7 years ago

Researchers Invent a Way to Speed Intel’s 3D XPoint Computer Memory

Memory modules using Intel’s 3D XPoint technology are on their way, and researchers in North Carolina have already figured out how to make them better | Continue reading


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Intel's New Path to Quantum Computing

Intel's director of quantum hardware, Jim Clarke, explains the company's two quantum computing technologies | Continue reading


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Can a Robot Be Divine?

Researchers explore whether robots can become useful sacred objects in a religious context | Continue reading


@spectrum.ieee.org | 7 years ago

Let’s Stop Using Ankle Bracelets to Monitor Offenders

Smartphones do a better job and allow for positive reinforcement and incentives | Continue reading


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Making Fuels with Carbon Dioxide Pulled from Air Could Be Affordable

Carbon Engineering shows direct air capture could cost $100 a ton | Continue reading


@spectrum.ieee.org | 7 years ago

Pressure-Sensing Fibers Change Color When Stretched

The new material could make compression bandages more effective and easier to use | Continue reading


@spectrum.ieee.org | 7 years ago

Electric Scooter Wars Heat Up in San Francisco and Beyond

The VC cash is flying as cities fling regulations at this surprisingly seductive method of transportation | Continue reading


@spectrum.ieee.org | 7 years ago

Sensors and Mobile Payments Are Getting Indian Women to Use Cleaner Cookstoves

New and improved stoves don’t belch out black carbon—but 3 billion people around the globe need motivation to use them | Continue reading


@spectrum.ieee.org | 7 years ago

Canadian Government’s Phoenix Pay System an “Incomprehensible Failure”

That’s the nicest thing that could be said for a debacle of the first rank | Continue reading


@spectrum.ieee.org | 7 years ago

The Importance of Teaching Robots to Hug

Knowing how to give good hugs is an important life skill, even for robots | Continue reading


@spectrum.ieee.org | 7 years ago

Medical Imaging AI Software Is Vulnerable to Covert Attacks

An attacker could manipulate medical software to rig a clinical trial or justify unnecessary procedures | Continue reading


@spectrum.ieee.org | 7 years ago

China's Alibaba Puts Solid-State Lidar in a Delivery Truck

That's one small step for delivery bots, but a giant one for solid-state lidar | Continue reading


@spectrum.ieee.org | 7 years ago

Medical Imaging AI Software Is Vulnerable to Covert Attacks

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@spectrum.ieee.org | 7 years ago

Firefighting Robot Snake Flies on Jets of Water

Using steerable jets of water like rockets, this robot snake can fly into burning buildings to extinguish fires | Continue reading


@spectrum.ieee.org | 7 years ago

The Race to Make a Great Fake Steak

With funding from food giant Unilever, a Dutch engineer is fine-tuning a machine designed to help make meat obsolete | Continue reading


@spectrum.ieee.org | 7 years ago

The Green Promise of Vertical Farms

Indoor farms run by AI and lit by LEDs can be more efficient than field agriculture, but can they significantly reduce greenhouse gas emissions? | Continue reading


@spectrum.ieee.org | 7 years ago

What would it take to reverse climate change

Today’s renewable energy technologies won’t save us. So what will? | Continue reading


@spectrum.ieee.org | 7 years ago

Wall Street Tries Shortwave Radio to Make High-Frequency Trades Across the Ocean

Financial firms hope radio can execute trades faster than fiber optic cables | Continue reading


@spectrum.ieee.org | 7 years ago

Fujitsu’s CMOS Digital Annealer Produces Quantum Computer Speeds

While quantum computer makers struggle to bring down costs, the Japanese computer giant has created a dedicated silicon chip to match quantum computer performance | Continue reading


@spectrum.ieee.org | 7 years ago

Methanol-Fueled Cars Could Drive Us Toward an Emissionless Future

Icelandic firm Carbon Recycling International is turning industrial pollution into a low-carbon fuel for cars, trucks, and ships | Continue reading


@spectrum.ieee.org | 7 years ago

Drone Delivery Becomes a Reality in Remote Pacific Islands

In Vanuatu, delivery drones will fly vaccines to isolated villages beginning in September | Continue reading


@spectrum.ieee.org | 7 years ago

What's the Best City for Software Engineers?

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@spectrum.ieee.org | 7 years ago

“What's the Best City for Software Engineers?” (Adjusted Salary and Opportunity)

Hint: it's not San Jose or San Francisco | Continue reading


@spectrum.ieee.org | 7 years ago

This Power Plant Runs on CO2

Carbon capture costs nothing in NET Power’s new plant, which uses supercritical carbon dioxide to drive a turbine | Continue reading


@spectrum.ieee.org | 7 years ago

Automated Facial Recognition: Menace, Farce or Both?

UK police trials continue to highlight weaknesses in real world AFR use and their implications for civil liberties | Continue reading


@spectrum.ieee.org | 7 years ago

The U.S. Defense Department's Deeply Flawed Electronic Health Records Program

A new report calls the early roll out of an electronic health records system “operationally unsuitable,” but its managers disagree | Continue reading


@spectrum.ieee.org | 7 years ago

Synthetic Bacteria Drive New Ingestible Gut Sensor

An ingestible capsule pairs bacteria with electronics to monitor blood in the GI tract | Continue reading


@spectrum.ieee.org | 7 years ago

Chip Hall of Fame: Zilog Z80 Microprocessor (2017)

Another legend from the 8-bit era, this processor powered the first portable computer as well as the beloved “Trash-80” | Continue reading


@spectrum.ieee.org | 7 years ago

Engineered Band Gap Pushes Graphene Closer to Displacing Silicon

A new method for engineering a band gap into graphene maintains its attractive electronic properties | Continue reading


@spectrum.ieee.org | 7 years ago

Where the Silicon Valley Tech Internships Are

The 2018 interns are about to descend upon Google, Facebook, Apple, Adobe, and other Silicon Valley companies | Continue reading


@spectrum.ieee.org | 7 years ago

Coding for Catastrophe: Contest Seeks Apps to Mitigate Effects of Disasters

Got a great idea for an app to help people deal with a natural disaster? Call for Code wants to hear from you | Continue reading


@spectrum.ieee.org | 7 years ago

The Birth of Digital Poetry

An English professor rediscovered how some of the best poets in the world were coding poetry algorithms in the 1960s | Continue reading


@spectrum.ieee.org | 7 years ago

What Tech Skills Are Hot [React, Cloud] or Not [Linux, Tableau] (2017)

Indeed.com’s analysis of job searches by job seekers and employers offers a few surprises | Continue reading


@spectrum.ieee.org | 7 years ago

Quadrotor Safety System Stops Propellers Before You Lose a Finger

With spinning hoops to detect obstacles combined with electromagnetic braking, this quadrotor safety system is both effective and cheap | Continue reading


@spectrum.ieee.org | 7 years ago

Coding for Catastrophe: Contest Seeks Apps to Mitigate Natural Disasters

Got a great idea for an app to help people deal with a natural disaster? Call for Code wants to hear from you | Continue reading


@spectrum.ieee.org | 7 years ago

“You’ve Got Mail” for the 19th Century

As mailboxes proliferated, inventors rushed to devise electrically enhanced versions | Continue reading


@spectrum.ieee.org | 7 years ago

MIT’s Super-Efficient Dispatching Algorithm Minimizes a City's Taxi Fleet

An app-based algorithm could cut Manhattan's cab population by nearly a third | Continue reading


@spectrum.ieee.org | 7 years ago

Interpol’s New Software Will Recognize Criminals by Their Voices

A new platform aims to identify offenders by matching voice recordings to speech samples stored in a massive database, raising privacy concerns | Continue reading


@spectrum.ieee.org | 7 years ago

It’s Never Too Early to Think About 6G

Companies have barely begun deploying 5G networks, but that just means researchers are thinking about what comes next | Continue reading


@spectrum.ieee.org | 7 years ago

Closing in on the perfect code (2004)

Turbo codes, which let engineers pump far more error-free data through a channel, will be the key to the next generation of multimedia cellphones | Continue reading


@spectrum.ieee.org | 7 years ago

Laser-Powered Robot Insect Achieves Lift Off

Everything is better with lasers, especially tiny robot insects | Continue reading


@spectrum.ieee.org | 7 years ago

Hiding Information in Plain Text

Subtle changes to letter shapes can embed messages | Continue reading


@spectrum.ieee.org | 7 years ago

Silicon Nanowires Could Enable Smart Solar Windows

Silicon nanowire networks also offer alternative to ITO for touchscreen displays | Continue reading


@spectrum.ieee.org | 7 years ago

Crossbar Pushes Resistive RAM into Embedded AI

Deal with Microsemi and foundries means its nonvolatile embedded memory can be integrated into the most advanced chips | Continue reading


@spectrum.ieee.org | 7 years ago

450,000 Women Missed Breast Cancer Screenings Due to “Algorithm Failure”

A disclosure in the United Kingdom has sparked a heated debate about the health impacts of an errant algorithm | Continue reading


@spectrum.ieee.org | 7 years ago

Waymo Filings Give New Details on Its Driverless Taxis

California's DMV has also received an application from the startup JingChi to test fully autonomous vehicles | Continue reading


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