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Cool(ing) Ideas for Tropical Data Centers
Tropical climates could make racks of hot-running data servers even hotter. But researchers in Singapore are now testing ways to cool this trend, sustainably. The National University of Singapore in...
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Standards Matter for Cars, Plugs, Wi-Fi—and AI?
Artificial intelligence holds much promise for innovation and progress, but it also has the potential to cause harm. To enable the responsible development and use of AI, the International Organization...
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Why Bloat Is Still Software’s Biggest Vulnerability
This post is dedicated to the memory of Niklaus Wirth, a computing pioneer who passed away 1 January 2024. In 1995 he wrote an influential article called “A Plea for Lean Software,” published in...
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Open-Source Security Chip Released
The first commercial silicon chip that includes open-source, built-in hardware security was announced today by the OpenTitan coalition.This milestone represents another step in the growth of the open...
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100 Years Ago, IBM Was Born
Happy birthday, IBM! You’re 100 years old! Or are you?It’s true that the businesses that formed IBM began in the late 1800s. But it’s also true that a birth occurred in February 1924, with the...
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Alibaba and Baidu Cash Out on Quantum Computing Stakes
Chinese tech giants Alibaba and Baidu have pulled out of the quantum computing race after shutting down their research units just over a month apart from each other. But experts say it would be...
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Analog Computers May Work Better Using Spin Than Light
In collaborative research out of Japan and Switzerland, scientists have taken an important step towards a next generation of analog computers by creating new types of logic gates based on spin waves....
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High-performance Data Acquisition for DFOS
Join us for an insightful webinar on high-speed data acquisition in the context of Distributed Fiber Optic Sensing (DFOS) and learn more about the critical role that high-performance digitizers play...
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DVD’s New Cousin Can Store More Than a Petabit
A novel disc the size of a DVD can hold more than 1 million gigabits—roughly as much as is transmitted per second over the entire world’s Internet—by storing data in three dimensions as opposed to...
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Perplexity.ai Revamps Google SEO Model For LLM Era
ChatGPT’s release on 30 Nov. 2022 was met with much fanfare and plenty of pushback. It quickly became clear people wanted to ask AI the same questions they asked Google—and ChatGPT often wasn’t...
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Science Fiction Short: Hijack
Computers have grown more and more powerful over the decades by pushing the limits of how small their electronics can get. But just how big can a computer get? Could we turn a planet into a computer,...
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Self-Destructing Circuits and More Security Schemes
Last week at the IEEE International Solid-State Circuits Conference (ISSCC), researchers introduced several technologies to fight even the sneakiest hack attacks. Engineers invented a way to detect a...
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AI Is Being Built on Dated, Flawed Motion-Capture Data
Diversity of thought in industrial design is crucial: If no one thinks to design a technology for multiple body types, people can get hurt. The invention of seat belts is an oft-cited example of this...
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Faster, More Secure Photonic Chip Boosts AI Training
A microchip that uses light instead of electricity can potentially be faster and more energy-efficient at the complex computations essential to training AI than conventional electronics. In addition,...
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Lean Software, Power Electronics, and the Return of Optical Storage
Stephen Cass: Hi. I’m Stephen Cass, a senior editor at IEEE Spectrum. And welcome to Fixing The Future, our bi-weekly podcast that focuses on concrete solutions to hard problems. Before we start, I...
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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 at prompt engineering—finding a clever way to phrase your query to a large-language model (LLM) or AI art or...
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Multiphysics Modeling of Electrical Motors
To reduce global warming and the associated effects, the transportation and energy sectors are adopting measures to make different applications potentially fossil free. This has led to a surge in...
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Wireless Channel Modeling for Dynamic Terrestrial Environments
As wireless systems become complex and reach for more spectrum, RF engineers must rely on high-fidelity simulation solutions to model and test their proposed new networks effectively. We offer tools...
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Cerebras Unveils Its Next Waferscale AI Chip
Sunnyvale, Calif., AI supercomputer firm Cerebras says its next generation of waferscale AI chips can do double the performance of the previous generation while consuming the same amount of power. The...
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VR Headsets Are Approaching the Eye’s Resolution Limits
The Chinese consumer electronics company TCL Technology recently unveiled a monstrous, 163-inch 4K Micro-LED television that one home theater expert described as “tall as Darth Vader.” Each of the...
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