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RSS IEEE Spectrum Computing

  • Smart Roads Get Better Eyesight April 23, 2024
    This article is part of our exclusive IEEE Journal Watch series in partnership with IEEE Xplore. Smart roads with advanced vehicle sensing capabilities could be the linchpin of future intelligent transportation systems and could even help extend driverless cars‘ perceptual range. A new approach that fuses camera and radar data can now track vehicles precisely […]
    Edd Gent
  • LED Touchscreen Is Also a PV Charger April 19, 2024
    Modern smartphone touchscreens offer edge-to-edge glass and use advanced bonding that makes the screen nearly flush with the surface of the phone. Beneath it, however, there’s still layer upon layer of glass, polarizers, color filters, capacitive touch sensors, and more. That’s an obstacle for smartphone makers looking to integrate sensors or create flexible displays.However, new […]
    Matthew S. Smith
  • Prepping For Post-Quantum Cryptography April 16, 2024
    Encryption today is typically a game of very large numbers. Some of today’s cryptographic systems, like RSA or elliptic-curve cryptography, utilize as keys integers that are hundreds or thousands of bits long. Cracking a key requires breaking down one of these integers into its prime-number factors. Even the mightiest non-quantum computers struggle to perform this […]
    Rahul Rao
  • AI Chip Trims Energy Budget Back by 99+ Percent April 12, 2024
    Neural networks that imitate the workings of the human brain now often generate art, power computer vision, and drive many more applications. Now a neural network microchip from China that uses photons instead of electrons, dubbed Taichi, can run AI tasks as well as its electronic counterparts with a thousandth as much energy, according to […]
    Charles Q. Choi
  • Intel’s Gaudi 3 Goes After Nvidia April 9, 2024
    Although the race to power the massive ambitions of AI companies might seem like it’s all about Nvidia, there is a real competition going in AI accelerator chips. The latest example: At Intel’s Vision 2024 event this week in Phoenix, Ariz., the company gave the first architectural details of its third-generation AI accelerator, Gaudi 3. […]
    Samuel K. Moore

RSS IEEE Spectrum Semiconductors

  • 10 Power Integrity Tips You Need to Know for Making Best Measurements April 18, 2024
    In today's technologically-driven world, electronics have transformed how we interact with the world, from the smartphones in our hands to the autonomous vehicles on our roads. Yet, amidst the marvel of these technological advancements, one fundamental aspect often goes unnoticed — power integrity. It serves as the backbone of signal integrity, ensuring the consistent and […]
    Keysight
  • The Tiny Ultrabright Laser that Can Melt Steel April 14, 2024
    In 2016, the Japanese government announced a plan for the emergence of a new kind of society. Human civilization, the proposal explained, had begun with hunter-gatherers, passed through the agrarian and industrial stages, and was fast approaching the end of the information age. As then Prime Minister Shinzo Abe put it, “We are now witnessing […]
    Susumu Noda
  • AI Chip Trims Energy Budget Back by 99+ Percent April 12, 2024
    Neural networks that imitate the workings of the human brain now often generate art, power computer vision, and drive many more applications. Now a neural network microchip from China that uses photons instead of electrons, dubbed Taichi, can run AI tasks as well as its electronic counterparts with a thousandth as much energy, according to […]
    Charles Q. Choi
  • Intel’s Gaudi 3 Goes After Nvidia April 9, 2024
    Although the race to power the massive ambitions of AI companies might seem like it’s all about Nvidia, there is a real competition going in AI accelerator chips. The latest example: At Intel’s Vision 2024 event this week in Phoenix, Ariz., the company gave the first architectural details of its third-generation AI accelerator, Gaudi 3. […]
    Samuel K. Moore
  • Generator Redesign Tries to Catch a Good Wave April 9, 2024
    While many ocean energy projects think big, laying large buoys that convert waves into electricity through mechanical means, there is another approach to developing wave energy: going small. For more than a decade, materials scientists have been tweaking materials on tiny scales to harvest electric charge from moving water. Now, by making a fundamental change […]
    Rahul Rao

RSS ESA Telecom

  • Space-connected ambulances improve patient care March 25, 2024
    Satellites are helping to improve at-home patient care for those living in remote areas of the UK. ESA and the UK Space Agency (UKSA) are working with the UK’s National Health Service (NHS) to trial the Digital Ambulance of the Future project, which enables paramedics to stay connected to vital patient data, support and resources […]
  • Supporting rapid disaster response through space March 15, 2024
    ESA has launched a new partnership with industry through a project called Smart-Connect. The project aims to mitigate the challenges presented when traditional communication channels are disrupted during times of crisis, through facilitating the efficient and timely exchange of secure information between first responders and disaster control centres.
  • Space-enabled connectivity steers self-driving cars March 8, 2024
    In one of the longest-running trials of a self-driving vehicle, collecting data over 13 000 km of autonomous travel, Darwin Innovation Group has been testing a novel driverless shuttle bus at Harwell Science and Innovation Campus, in Oxford, UK; home to ESA’s European Centre for Space Applications and Telecommunications (ECSAT). The technology is funded under […]
  • Satellite communications for safer and greener aviation January 26, 2024
    The first commercial flights of a programme that uses Iris satellite technology to help modernise air traffic management and reduce carbon emissions have taken place.
  • Demonstrating connectivity’s latest technologies December 14, 2023
    A satellite has been launched that will demonstrate the latest technologies for connectivity and for Earth observation. The ALISIO-1 satellite was developed under an ESA Pioneer Partnership Project with satellite manufacturer and operator Open Cosmos, based at Harwell in the UK.

RSS NASA Education

  • NASA Glenn Joins Big Hoopla STEM Challenge April 24, 2024
    NASA’s Glenn Research Center in Cleveland joined in the adventure of the Big Hoopla STEM Challenge held at the Dayton Convention Center on March 17. The free family event for kids (K-8) tied together the excitement of college basketball and the power of STEM education. NASA Glenn Deputy Center Director Dawn Schaible participated in the […]
    Kelly M. Matter
  • NASA Mentors, Students Rock FIRST Buckeye Regional  April 24, 2024
    NASA’s Glenn Research Center in Cleveland supported the 25th annual FIRST Robotics Buckeye Regional Competition, March 20 to 23, at Cleveland State University’s Wolstein Center. Fifty-five teams of high school students competed in the robotics competition, which aims to inspire young people to be science and technology leaders and innovators by engaging them in mentor-based […]
    Kelly M. Matter
  • Cleveland School Students Learn About STEM Careers   April 24, 2024
    NASA’s Glenn Research Center in Cleveland opened its doors to Cleveland Metropolitan School District (CMSD) students to explore various Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics (STEM) careers.     NASA Glenn’s Office of STEM Engagement invited high school students onsite to explore center facilities and talk to NASA experts during NASA Career Exploration Day. Students learned about NASA […]
    Kelly M. Matter
  • NASA Announces 30th Human Exploration Rover Challenge Winners April 22, 2024
    NASA announced the winners of the 30th Human Exploration Rover Challenge (HERC) April 22, with Parish Episcopal School, from Dallas, winning first place in the high school division, and the University of Alabama in Huntsville, capturing the college/university title. The annual engineering competition – one of NASA’s longest standing challenges – held its concluding event […]
    Tiernan P. Doyle
  • Students Celebrate Rockets, Environment at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center April 19, 2024
    At NASA’s Kennedy Space Center, sustainability and preservation efforts here on Earth are as much of a priority as rocket launches, spacecraft, and the exploration of worlds beyond our own. In celebration of Earth Day 2024, nearly 100 students from Andrew Jackson Middle School in Titusville, Florida, and a virtual audience of students across the […]
    Jason Costa

RSS IEEE Spectrum Telecom

  • Why One Man Spent 12 Years Fighting Robocalls April 24, 2024
    At some point, our phone habits changed. It used to be that if the phone rang, you answered it. With the advent of caller ID, you’d only pick up if it was someone you recognized. And now, with spoofing and robocalls, it can seem like a gamble to pick up the phone, period. In 2023, […]
    Michael Koziol
  • Curving Terahertz Signals Around Obstacles For 6G April 23, 2024
    By making light beams curve in mid-air around obstacles, researchers hope to help make blazingly fast 6G data networks a reality, a new study finds.The next generation of wireless communications, 6G, will likely rely on terahertz waves to help reach unprecedented speeds. Terahertz rays (also called submillimeter radiation or far-infrared light) lie between optical waves […]
    Charles Q. Choi
  • Unlock the Most Sophisticated Security Solutions with TII Ghaf Solution April 18, 2024
    This white paper delves into modern enterprise computing solutions and explores different approaches for securing enterprise laptops, desktops, mobile devices, and other endpoints. The analysis emphasizes the Technology Innovation Institute's (TII) Ghaf solution, underscoring its potential in augmenting security, manageability, and cross-platform support in the enterprise realm.
    Technology Innovation Institute
  • Ukraine Is the First “Hackers’ War” April 10, 2024
    Rapid and resourceful technological improvisation has long been a mainstay of warfare, but the war in Ukraine is taking it to a new level. This improvisation is most conspicuous in the ceaselessly evolving struggle between weaponized drones and electronic warfare, a cornerstone of this war.Weaponized civilian first-person-view (FPV) drones began dramatically reshaping the landscape of […]
    Juan Chulilla
  • Scientists Race to Protect Future Lunar Telescopes April 8, 2024
    If you’re an astrophysicist trying to detect signals from the early universe after the big bang, Earth is not a great place to be. Yes, this planet is our home, warm and wet and brimming with life, but significant chunks of electromagnetic spectrum are blocked by Earth’s atmosphere, magnetic field and—more recently—the growing cacophony of […]
    Ned Potter