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UV-K5 Is the Most Hackable Handheld Ham Radio Yet
All right, confession time. I don’t use my handheld ham radio for much more than eavesdropping...
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How We’ll Reach a 1 Trillion Transistor GPU
In 1997 the IBM Deep Blue supercomputer defeated world chess champion Garry Kasparov. It was a...
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Nvidia Tops Llama 2, Stable Diffusion Speed Trials
Times change, and so must benchmarks. Now that we’re firmly in the age of massive generative...
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Inkjets Are for More Than Just Printing
In the early 1980s, offices were noisy places, filled with the sound of metal striking inked...
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Exosuit Muscle Control Steps Closer to Reality
Exosuits—worn assistive frames that help users move their bodies—represent a promising technology that still has big...
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What Is Green Software and Why Do We Need It?
Software may be eating the world, but it is also heating it. In December 2023, representatives...
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6G Terahertz Devices Demand 3D Electronics
Smartphones have a scaling problem. Specifically, the radio-frequency (RF) filters that every phone—and every wireless device...
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Actual Uses for Near-Term Quantum Computers
Although recent findings have poured cold water on quantum computing hype, don’t count the technology out...
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Nvidia Unveils Blackwell, Its Next GPU
Today at Nvidia’s developer conference, GTC 2024, the company revealed its next GPU, the B200. The...
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How Ultrasound Became Ultra Small
A startling change in medical ultrasound is working its way through hospitals and physicians’ offices. The...
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Isamu Akasaki’s blue LEDs changed how we light our world
I met the bright blue LED and Isamu Akasaki at the Materials Research Society meeting in...
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A VC-backed startup's push for growth left little time for actual engineering
For 19 months, the sociologist Benjamin Shestakofsky embedded himself in an early-stage tech startup to study...
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FCC Denies Starlink Low-Orbit Bid for Lower Latency
The FCC has once again rejected a Starlink plan to deploy thousands of internet satellites in...
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India Injects $15B into Semiconductors
The government of India has approved a major investment in semiconductor and electronics production that will...
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AI Prompt Engineering Is Dead
Since ChatGPT dropped in the fall of 2022, everyone and their donkey has tried their hand...
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BYD's EV Dream May Be Legacy Automakers' Nightmare
“Hit ’em low, hit ’em high” is an old football catchphrase. It also describes the two-pronged...
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Two C64s Plus a Pile of Floppy Disks Equals One Accordion
Accordions come in many shapes. Some have a little piano keyboard while others have a grid...
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Clock Made Power Grids Possible
On 23 October 1916, an engineer named Henry E. Warren quietly revolutionized power transmission by installing...
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The Lithium-Ion Battery May Not Be the Best Bet for EVs
This article is part of our exclusive IEEE Journal Watch series in partnership with IEEE Xplore.As...
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The Scoop on Keeping an Ice Cream Factory Cool
Working in an ice cream factory is a dream for anyone who enjoys the frozen dessert....
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Heat Pumps Take on Cold Climates
Twenty homes scattered across Canada and the northern United States are keeping warm this winter using...