All right, confession time. I don’t use my handheld ham radio for much more than eavesdropping on the subway dispatcher when my train rumbles to a mysterious halt in a dark tunnel. But even I c...
Times change, and so must benchmarks. Now that we’re firmly in the age of massive generative AI, it’s time to add two such behemoths, Llama 2 70B and Stable Diffusion XL, to MLPerf’s in...
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Engineers are used to being experts in their field, but when Zach Rattner cofounded his artificial-intelligence startup, Yembo , he quickly realized he needed to get comfortable with being out ...
In our last article, A How-To Guide on Acquiring AI Systems , we explained why the IEEE P3119 Standard for the Procurement of Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Automated Decision Systems (ADS) is ...
As EV production and, with it, battery production accelerate over the next decade, so too will the demand for rigorous EV battery testing. But producing a battery that will stand up to the task o...
Starting a new engineering program at a university is no simple task. But that’s just what Brandeis University in Waltham, Mass., is doing. By 2026, the university will offer an undergraduate e...
IN THE EARLY 1980S, offices were noisy places, filled with the sound of metal striking inked ribbons to mark characters on paper. IBM Selectric typewriters clacked, daisy wheel printers clattere...
This sponsored article is brought to you by Avnet and AMD . The use of artificial intelligence (AI) in image processing has brought about significant advancements in the exploration of space an...
SOFTWARE MAY BE eating the world , but it is also heating it. In December 2023, representatives from nearly 200 countries gathered in Dubai for COP28, the U.N.’s climate-change conference, ...
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Smartphones have a scaling problem. Specifically, the radio-frequency (RF) filters that every phone—and every wireless device in general—uses to extract information from isolated wireless sig...
Although recent finding s have poured cold water on quantum computing hype, don’t count the technology out yet. On 4 March, Google and XPrize announced a US $5 million prize to anyone who co...
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Watching movies and TV series that use digital visual effects to create fantastical worlds lets people escape reality for a few hours. Thanks to advancements in computer-generated technology used...
While the Top500 list ranks the 500 biggest high-performance computers (HPCs) in the world, its cousin the Green500 reranks the same 500 supercomputers according to their energy efficiency. Fo...
China launched a spacecraft today that is planned to be the first act in a complex, multistep campaign to achieve an unprecedented feat: Collecting samples from the far side of the moon and del...
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STEPHEN CASS: Hello and welcome to Fixing the Future, an IEEE Spectrum podcast where we look at concrete solutions to some big problems. I’m your host Stephen Cass , a senior editor at IEEE Spe...
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This year is shaping up to be an active one for new and developing technologies that are expected to impact how engineers work in the areas of data privacy, IoT security, Wi-Fi 6, and more. It�...
Nvidia’s ongoing GTC developer conference in San Jose is, unsurprisingly, almost entirely about AI this year. But in between the AI developments, Nvidia has also made a couple of significant r...
Today at Nvidia’s developer conference, GTC 2024 , the company revealed its next GPU, the B200 . The B200 is capable of delivering four times the training performance, up to 30 times the infer...
A STARTLING CHANGE IN medical ultrasound is working its way through hospitals and physicians’ offices. The long-standing, state-of-the-art ultrasound machine that’s pushed around on a cart, ...
The U.S. government recently backed down from enacting tough new measures that would have forced automakers to quadruple their sales of electric vehicles by 2030. Even if Washington hadn’t bu...
About a year ago, Zipline introduced Platform 2 , an approach to precision urban drone delivery that combines a large hovering drone with a smaller package-delivery “Droid.” Lowered on a tet...
AT SEVERAL POINTS in this book I’ve mentioned the fictional character Tony Stark, who uses technology to transform himself into the superhero Iron Man. To me this character is a tremendous ins...
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In February, OpenAI announced the arrival of Sora , a stunning “text-to-video” tool. Simply enter a prompt, and Sora generates a realistic video within seconds. But it wasn’t immediately av...
Video Friday is your weekly selection of awesome robotics videos, collected by your friends at IEEE Spectrum robotics. We also post a weekly calendar of upcoming robotics events for the next few ...
As the world builds more and more electric cars and trucks—and electrifies other modes of transit—a race is underway to build the ideal, mean-and-green motor. The goal is a traction motor tha...
The FCC has once again rejected a Starlink plan to deploy thousands of internet satellites in very low earth orbits (VLEO) ranging from 340 to 360 kilometers. In an order published last week , th...
ANDREW NG HAS SERIOUS STREET CRED in artificial intelligence. He pioneered the use of graphics processing units (GPUs) to train deep learning models in the late 2000s with his students at Stanfo...
The end of Moore’s Law is looming. Engineers and designers can do only so much to miniaturize transistors and pack as many of them as possible into chips . So they’re turning to other appro...
Quantum computing is a devilishly complex technology, with many technical hurdles impacting its development. Of these challenges two critical issues stand out: miniaturization and qubit quality. ...