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RSS IEEE Spectrum Computing

  • 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
  • AI Coding Is Going From Copilot to Autopilot April 9, 2024
    A new breed of AI-powered coding tools have emerged—and they’re claiming to be more autonomous versions of earlier assistants like GitHub Copilot, Amazon CodeWhisperer, and Tabnine.One such new entrant, Devin AI, has been dubbed an “AI software engineer” by its maker, applied AI lab Cognition. According to Cognition, Devin can perform all these tasks unassisted: […]
    Rina Diane Caballar
  • Software Sucks, but It Doesn’t Have To April 7, 2024
    You can’t see, hear, taste, feel, or smell it, but software is everywhere around us. It underpins modern civilization even while consuming more energy, wealth, and time than it needs to and burping out a significant amount of carbon dioxide into the atmosphere. The software industry and the code it ships need to be much […]
    Harry Goldstein

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

  • Media Invited to NASA’s 30th Anniversary of International Rover Competition April 16, 2024
    NASA will celebrate the 30th anniversary of the Human Exploration Rover Challenge when the competition returns to the U.S. Space & Rocket Center’s Aviation Challenge Course in Huntsville, Alabama, Friday, April 19, and Saturday, April 20. The event is free and open to the public with rover excursions occurring each day from 7:30 a.m. to 3 p.m. […]
    Beth Ridgeway
  • New York Students to Hear from NASA Astronaut Aboard Space Station April 16, 2024
    Students from Syracuse City School District and Le Moyne College in Syracuse, New York, will have an opportunity this week to hear from alumna and NASA astronaut Jeanette Epps aboard the International Space Station. The space to Earth call will stream live at 10 a.m. EDT April 18, on NASA+, NASA Television, the NASA app, and the […]
    Lauren E. Low
  • Media Invited to NASA’s Student Launch Challenge in Alabama April 10, 2024
    NASA’s 2024 Student Launch challenge will bring students from colleges, universities, high schools, middle schools, and informal education groups to launch amateur rockets and payloads Saturday, April 13, starting at 8:30 a.m. CDT at Bragg Farms in Toney, Alabama, near NASA’s Marshall Space Flight Center in Huntsville. Live streaming will begin at 8:20 a.m. CDT […]
    Lauren E. Low
  • NASA Names Finalists of the Power to Explore Challenge April 8, 2024
    NASA has selected the nine finalists of the Power to Explore Challenge, a national competition for K-12 students featuring the enabling power of radioisotopes. NASA selected nine finalists out of the 45 semifinalist student essays in the Power to Explore Challenge, a national competition for K-12 students featuring the enabling power of radioisotopes. Contestants were […]
    Phil Davis
  • NASA Invites Media to Annual FIRST Robotics Competition in Rocket City April 3, 2024
    The Rocket City Regional – Alabama’s annual For Inspiration and Recognition of Science and Technology (FIRST) Robotics Competition – is scheduled for Friday, April 5, through Saturday, April 6, at the Von Braun Center South Hall in Huntsville, Alabama, known as the Rocket City. This event is free for the public. FIRST Robotics is a […]
    Beth Ridgeway

RSS IEEE Spectrum Telecom

  • 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
  • Satellite Radar Sharpens Ukraine Dam Collapse Questions April 3, 2024
    New analysis of the former Kakhovka Dam in Ukraine shows that it may have been deteriorating long before it collapsed in June 2023, amid credible reports of explosions.An international team of researchers has been studying synthetic aperture radar (SAR) archival data of the dam and evaluating the larger context behind a deadly breach of the […]
    Mark Harris
  • Rollable OLED’s Moment Is Near March 30, 2024
    The Mobile World Congress (MWC), a technology convention held each year in Barcelona, placed a spotlight on rollable phones like the Phantom Ultimate, a scroll-like concept from Tecno Mobile, and Motorola’s Adaptive Display Concept, a phone that can wrap around your wrist like a smartwatch. They were followed by a new patent filed by Samsung […]
    Matthew S. Smith