The 70% Rule: When Imperfect Understanding Is Best

At conferences, maybe it’s a good thing if some engineers don’t understand your entire presentation | Continue reading


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Protean Electric’s In-Wheel Motors Could Make EVs More Efficient

Putting electric motors closer to the road may also improve handling | Continue reading


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3 Ways Nokia Is Using Machine Learning in 5G Networks

Artificial intelligence could quickly schedule beams and configure channels in future wireless networks | Continue reading


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The Nixie Tube Story: The Neon Display Tech That Engineers Can’t Quit

How the neon-filled glow lamps came to hold a special place in enthusiasts’ hearts | Continue reading


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Layoffs at Watson Health Reveal IBM’s Problem with AI

Axed engineers say IBM isn't always smart about artificial intelligence | Continue reading


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Experts Bet on First Deepfakes Political Scandal

Researchers wager on a possible Deepfake video scandal during the 2018 U.S. midterm elections | Continue reading


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4 Strange New Ways to Compute

At the IEEE Rebooting Computing Conference, deep thinking about computing led to some wild ideas | Continue reading


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AMD Tackles Coming “Chiplet” Revolution with New Chip Network Scheme

Active silicon interposers could make for smaller, better computers but the networks need to mesh | Continue reading


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Fuel Cells Finally Find a Killer App: Carbon Capture

At an Alabama power plant, FuelCell Energy and ExxonMobil aim to capture 90 percent of CO2 | Continue reading


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4 Reasons NASA Projects Miss Deadlines and Blow Budgets

Managers think their projects are “too big to fail,” and believe future scientific progress will excuse any delays or cost overruns | Continue reading


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Build Your Own Google Neural Synthesizer

A “piano-flute” is just one of the crazy instruments you can build with the NSynth open-source deep-⁠learning project | Continue reading


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What’s the Best Company to Work for in Silicon Valley? Facebook Takes Top Spot

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Flying Dragon Robot Transforms Itself to Squeeze Through Gaps

DRAGON can change its shape to move through complex environments and even manipulate objects | Continue reading


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Watch: Laser Origami Makes Inductors

Army researchers use a common laser engraver to make inductors and other complex shapes | Continue reading


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The story behind the completely unused TLD .bv

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California Tests Kindle-Ized License Plates

California drivers can now opt for e-paper license plates that display custom messages | Continue reading


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Perceptin's Under-$10K Self-Driving Vehicle

It's a slow-driving pod, but that should be good enough for corporate campuses | Continue reading


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The Strange Birth and Long Life of Unix

The classic operating system turns 40, and its progeny abound | Continue reading


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AI Drone Learns to Detect Brawls

A drone surveillance system trains to watch out for humans stabbing or punching each other | Continue reading


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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


@spectrum.ieee.org | 5 years ago

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


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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


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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


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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 | 5 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


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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 | 5 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


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The Importance of Teaching Robots to Hug

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


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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 | 5 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


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Medical Imaging AI Software Is Vulnerable to Covert Attacks

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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 | 5 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


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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 | 5 years ago

What would it take to reverse climate change

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


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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


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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


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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


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Drone Delivery Becomes a Reality in Remote Pacific Islands

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


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What's the Best City for Software Engineers?

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

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


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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


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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 | 5 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


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Synthetic Bacteria Drive New Ingestible Gut Sensor

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


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