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RSS IEEE Spectrum Computing

  • AI Coding Assistants Are Getting Worse January 8, 2026
    In recent months, I’ve noticed a troubling trend with AI coding assistants. After two years of steady improvements, over the course of 2025, most of the core models reached a quality plateau, and more recently, seem to be in decline. A task that might have taken five hours assisted by AI, and perhaps ten hours […]
    Jamie Twiss
  • Tech to Track in 2026 January 1, 2026
    Every September as we plan our January tech forecast issue, IEEE Spectrum’s editors survey their beats and seek out promising projects that could solve seemingly intractable problems or transform entire industries.Often these projects fly under the radar of the popular technology press, which these days seems more interested in the personalities driving Big Tech companies […]
    Harry Goldstein
  • AI Data Centers Demand More Than Copper Can Deliver December 27, 2025
    SummaryIn data-center terms, scaling out involves linking computers, while scaling up packs more GPUs into a computer, challenging copper’s physical limits.Copper cables face a phenomenon at high data rates that necessitate wider wires and more power, complicating a data center’s dense connections.Point2 and AttoTude propose radio-based cables, offering longer reach, lower power consumption, and narrower […]
    Samuel K. Moore
  • How to Stay Ahead of AI as an Early-Career Engineer December 25, 2025
    “AI is not going to take your job. The person who uses AI is going to take your job.”This is an idea that has become a refrain for, among others, Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang, who has publicly made the prediction several times since October 2023. Meanwhile, other AI developers and stalwarts say the technology will […]
    Gwendolyn Rak
  • The Top 8 Computing Stories of 2025 December 25, 2025
    This year, AI continued to loom large in the software world. But more than before, people are wrestling with both its amazing capabilities and its striking shortcomings. New research has found that AI agents are doubling the length of task they can do every seven months—an astounding rate of exponential growth. But the quality of […]
    Dina Genkina

RSS IEEE Spectrum Semiconductors

  • The Top 8 Semiconductor Stories of 2025 December 30, 2025
    This year’s top semiconductor stories were mostly about the long and twisting trips a technology takes from idea (or even raw material) to commercial deployment. I’ve been at IEEE Spectrum long enough to have seen some of the early days of things that became commercial only this year.In chipmaking, that includes the production of the […]
    Samuel K. Moore
  • AI Data Centers Demand More Than Copper Can Deliver December 27, 2025
    SummaryIn data-center terms, scaling out involves linking computers, while scaling up packs more GPUs into a computer, challenging copper’s physical limits.Copper cables face a phenomenon at high data rates that necessitate wider wires and more power, complicating a data center’s dense connections.Point2 and AttoTude propose radio-based cables, offering longer reach, lower power consumption, and narrower […]
    Samuel K. Moore
  • Hermetic Sealing Solutions for High-Performance Miniaturized Battery Systems December 24, 2025
    Achieve reliable hermetic sealing for millimeter-scale microbatteries using dual-seal epoxy adhesive methods that maximize energy density while preventing electrolyte leakage and moisture ingress. What Attendees will Learn“Seal smart, not complex” -- Dual-seal approach combines epoxy adhesives with gaskets for optimal hermeticity.2mm breakthrough -- Successfully demonstrated microbatteries operating at 120°C with 22-hour continuous performance.Energy density maximized […]
    Master Bond
  • How to Accelerate Radar Cross Section Simulations for Large Structures December 19, 2025
    Achieve accurate RCS predictions for electrically large aerospace structures in minutes instead ofhours using advanced approximation techniques on standard desktop hardware.What Attendees will Learn“Simulate smart, not slow” -- Extrapolation cuts 1-hour MoM runs to minutes.95%+ time savings -- Physical Optics delivers comparable accuracy in seconds.Hybrid approach proven -- MoM + PO combines precision with efficiency.No […]
    WIPL-D
  • The U.S. CHIPS Act Takes Another Hit December 18, 2025
    The head of a U.S. CHIPS and Science Act-funded center devoted to digital twins for chip manufacturing has informed its 121 members that the U.S. Department of Commerce will terminate its US $285-million five-year contract.According to its website, the SMART USA Institute has the goal of uniting academic and industrial labs to create “virtual manufacturing […]
    Samuel K. Moore

RSS ESA Telecom

  • Space-enabled air traffic control takes flight globally December 11, 2025
    Air travellers will shrink their carbon footprint while reducing flight delays worldwide, thanks to a collaboration between the European Space Agency (ESA), satellite operator Viasat and aerospace company Boeing. Flights to test the space-based technology with new aviation standards from and to the USA and Europe took place in late October and early November.
  • Smarter flights for ITA Airways through satellites December 10, 2025
    Passengers on Italian airline ITA Airways will be able to fly smarter and greener and with less delays thanks to the airline’s recent implementation of the Iris technology, developed by the European Space Agency (ESA) and global communications company Viasat.
  • Three more Greek CubeSats reach space November 28, 2025
    Cleaner airwaves and safer seas will be soon possible thanks to the launch of three small Greek satellites. Supported by the European Space Agency (ESA), satellites of the PHASMA and MICE-1 missions launched on 28 November, where they will demonstrate new capabilities in radio frequencies usage and maritime tracking from space.
  • Europe chooses resilient and secure space-enabled connectivity with €2.1 billion investment November 28, 2025
    In a time of profound technological and geopolitical challenges, Europe will continue to support the need for secure satellite communications. This was the clear message given at the European Space Agency's (ESA) Council meeting at Ministerial Level, in Bremen, Germany.
  • SpainSat NG programme completed as second secure communications satellite launches November 25, 2025
    Europe has strengthened its secure-communications capabilities with the successful launch of SpainSat NG II on 24 October, wrapping up the SpainSat Next Generation programme supported by the European Space Agency (ESA). With both SpainSat NG satellites now in orbit, Europe will see its most advanced governmental communications system to date, a major step for the […]

RSS NASA Education

  • 5 Tips to Craft a Standout NASA Internship Application January 5, 2026
    A NASA internship provides a stellar opportunity to launch your future as part of America’s aerospace workforce. NASA interns take on meaningful work and contribute to exciting agency projects with the guidance of a supportive mentor. The agency’s internship program regularly ranks as the nation’s most prestigious and competition is steep: in fiscal year 2025, […]
    Sandra May
  • NASA Armstrong Advances Flight Research and Innovation in 2025 December 22, 2025
    In 2025, NASA’s Armstrong Flight Research Center in Edwards, California, advanced work across aeronautics, Earth science, exploration technologies, and emerging aviation systems, reinforcing its role as one of the agency’s primary test sites for aeronautics research. From early concept evaluations to full flight test campaigns, teams enhanced measurement tools, refined safety systems, and generated data […]
    Dede Dinius
  • NASA Announces 2025 International Space Apps Challenge Global Winners December 18, 2025
    NASA Space Apps announced Thursday 10 winners of the 2025 NASA Space Apps Challenge. During this two-day hackathon, participants gathered at 551 local events across 167 countries and territories to showcase their STEM skills and proposed ways to transform NASA’s open data into actionable tools. More than 114,000 participants came together to address challenges created […]
    Rob Garner
  • 2025 Science Activation Opportunity December 18, 2025
    NASA Science encourages all people to actively participate in science through activities and resources developed by a collaborative network of project teams drawing on NASA SMD assets (science content, experts, data, etc.). Your team can apply to be part of this program. Opportunity NASA SMD seeks a portfolio of projects that together : Projects NASA seeks a […]
  • NASA eClips STEM Student Ambassadors Shine at STEM Exploration Community Event December 18, 2025
    The 5th Annual Science, Technology, Engineering, & Mathematics (STEM) Exploration Community Event hosted by the Coastal Virginia STEM Hub and the NASA eClips Education Team from the National Institute of Aerospace Center for Integrative STEM Education (NIA-CISE) lit up the Professional Workforce Development Center at Virginia Peninsula Community College on Saturday, November 8, 2025.

RSS IEEE Spectrum Telecom

  • AI Data Centers Demand More Than Copper Can Deliver December 27, 2025
    SummaryIn data-center terms, scaling out involves linking computers, while scaling up packs more GPUs into a computer, challenging copper’s physical limits.Copper cables face a phenomenon at high data rates that necessitate wider wires and more power, complicating a data center’s dense connections.Point2 and AttoTude propose radio-based cables, offering longer reach, lower power consumption, and narrower […]
    Samuel K. Moore
  • Mesh Networks Are About to Escape Apple, Amazon, and Google Silos December 25, 2025
    In the early 2000s, mesh networks were on the verge of being everywhere and connecting everything. Daisy-chaining many devices like beads on a string would “accommodate hundreds or thousands of nodes” and provide “low, up-front cost, easy network maintenance, robustness, and reliable service coverage,” according to mesh-networking forecasts from 2004 and 2005, respectively.But it would […]
    Margo Anderson
  • The Top 7 Telecommunications Stories of 2025 December 22, 2025
    The telecom networks originally built to carry phone calls and packets of data are in the midst of a dramatic shift. The past year saw early steps toward networks becoming a more integrated data fabric that can measure the world, process and sense collaboratively, and even stretch into outer space.The following list of key IEEE […]
    Margo Anderson
  • We Now Know How Much Faster Clocks Will Run on Mars December 20, 2025
    The most precise timekeepers ever made, atomic clocks, might one day help robotic and crewed missions on Mars stay in sync with each other, as well as enable the equivalent of GPS on the red planet. But, as Einstein made clear, time flows at different rates depending on where you are. Now scientists have estimated […]
    Charles Q. Choi
  • Kyocera’s Subsea Laser Link Swaps Range for Gigabit Speeds December 18, 2025
    Underwater drones may soon be able to transfer data at lightning speeds—though only if the receiver is nearby. In November, the Kyoto, Japan-based electronics maker Kyocera demonstrated a new optical underwater communications technology that boasts lab tests of up to 5.2 gigabits per second at short range. The company is promoting this new optical transmission […]
    John Boyd