“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


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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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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


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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


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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


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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


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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


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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


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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 | 5 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 | 5 years ago

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

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


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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


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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 | 5 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


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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


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Laser-Powered Robot Insect Achieves Lift Off

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


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Hiding Information in Plain Text

Subtle changes to letter shapes can embed messages | Continue reading


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Silicon Nanowires Could Enable Smart Solar Windows

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


@spectrum.ieee.org | 5 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 | 5 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 | 5 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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DARPA's Semi-Disposable Gremlin Drones Will Fly by 2019

Dynetics gets funding from DARPA to launch and recover multiple reusable drones from a C-130 | Continue reading


@spectrum.ieee.org | 5 years ago

Flamethrowers? Cyborg Dragons? Elon Musk’s Side Hustle Is Anything but Boring

News that comes out of Elon Musk’s Boring Company certainly gets Silicon Valley heads scratching | Continue reading


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Spying on a Storm's Infrasonic Signals to Improve Tornado Warnings

Monitoring the infrasonic waves that precede tornadoes could produce earlier, more accurate warnings | Continue reading


@spectrum.ieee.org | 5 years ago

Driver's Licenses Go Digital

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@spectrum.ieee.org | 5 years ago

Detecting Whether Your Flash Memory Is New or Recycled

Counterfeit flash memory is a growing problem; engineers in Alabama can tell used from new in seconds | Continue reading


@spectrum.ieee.org | 5 years ago

The Unhackable Envelope

Engineers in Germany have come up with a security enclosure that needs no battery and can’t be penetrated without wiping its data | Continue reading


@spectrum.ieee.org | 5 years ago

Flexible, Stick-On Tags Attach Laser Beams to Eyeballs

Ultra-thin organic lasers could improve biometric security and anti-counterfeiting | Continue reading


@spectrum.ieee.org | 5 years ago

5G Poised for Commercial Rollout by 2020

By September, companies will have the specifications they need to manufacture 5G-enabled base stations | Continue reading


@spectrum.ieee.org | 5 years ago

Yarn-Like Rechargeable Zinc Battery Could Power Smart Clothes and Wearables

The zinc yarn battery works when knotted, stretched, cut, and washed | Continue reading


@spectrum.ieee.org | 6 years ago

Scientists Find Strange New Effect for Future Solar Cells: Flexo-Photovoltaics

Poking something sharp into a plain silicon crystal turns it into a solar cell that might shoot past today’s efficiency limits | Continue reading


@spectrum.ieee.org | 6 years ago

Facebook May Have Plans to Build a Satellite-Based Internet

Public filings suggest the social media giant is quietly developing orbital tech to rival efforts by SpaceX and OneWeb to deliver Internet by satellite | Continue reading


@spectrum.ieee.org | 6 years ago

After Years of Denying He Built Facebook to Get Dates, Zuck Adds Dating Tools

Fake news, political manipulation—how does Facebook put all that behind it? How about a dating app? | Continue reading


@spectrum.ieee.org | 6 years ago

Zuckerberg Adds Dating App Features to Facebook

Fake news, political manipulation—how does Facebook put all that behind it? How about a dating app? | Continue reading


@spectrum.ieee.org | 6 years ago

Your Guide to the GDPR

Here’s what you need to know about the EU’s General Data Protection Regulation, which goes into effect 25 May 2018 | Continue reading


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Particle Physics Resurrects Alexander Graham Bell’s Voice

It takes some doing to extract sound from an 1885 wax disc | Continue reading


@spectrum.ieee.org | 6 years ago

Exabytes in a Test Tube: The Case for DNA Data Storage

With the right coding, the double helix could archive our entire civilization | Continue reading


@spectrum.ieee.org | 6 years ago

Forging Voices and Faces: The Dangers of Audio and Video Fabrication

Adobe, Baidu, Google, and others have software that can fabricate convincing video or audio clips of anyone | Continue reading


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