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Servers Get a Second Life for Sustainability
Servers consume a lot of energy in data centers, but it’s easy to forget their carbon footprints begin before they’re ever placed on racks inside air-conditioned mega-warehouses. After all, it takes...
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Scientists Make First Mechanical Qubit
Quantum computers that can theoretically find answers to problems no regular computer could ever solve rely on components known as qubits. Now scientists have created the first mechanical...
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New Fastest Supercomputer Will Simulate Nuke Testing
In 1965, the United States and other nuclear powers committed to the Comprehensive Nuclear-Test-Ban Treaty, which prohibited nuclear tests. The National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA), a...
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Chuck E. Cheese’s Animatronics Band Bows Out
When I was eight years old, I won a coloring contest that earned me a free birthday party at my hometown Chuck E. Cheese. We don’t have any photos from the event because, as my mother recalls, it was...
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ChatGPT Is Terrible at Checking Its Own Code
This article is part of our exclusive IEEE Journal Watch series in partnership with IEEE Xplore.There’s a lot of hype around ChatGPT’s ability to produce code and, so far, the AI program just isn’t on...
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More Is Better in Error-Resilient Quantum Computer
Quantum computers are currently error-ridden machines, greatly limiting practical applications. In a study published today in Nature, researchers at Google and their colleagues reveal they have, for...
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AI Godmother Fei-Fei Li Has a Vision for Computer Vision
Stanford University professor Fei-Fei Li has already earned her place in the history of AI. She played a major role in the deep learning revolution by laboring for years to create the ImageNet dataset...
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When IBM Built a War Room for Executives
It seems to me that every item in the Computer History Museum’s collection has a biography of sorts—a life before CHM, a tale about how it came to us, and a life within the museum. The chapters of...
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Carbon Nanotube Circuits Find Their Place in Chips
This week at the International Electron Devices Meeting in San Francisco, research teams spanning academia and industry presented data on high-performance carbon nanotube transistors (CNTs) and...
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Can Remixing Memory Curb AI’s Energy Problem?
The future of memory is massive, diverse, and tightly integrated with processing. That was the message of an invited talk this week at the International Electron Devices Meeting in San Francisco....
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Self-Assembly Trick Makes Transistors and Diodes
Using liquid metal, scientists have devised a new way to make electronics that assemble themselves. With prototypes including nanoscale to microscale transistors and diodes, the researchers suggest...
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Unforgeable Quantum Tokens Delivered Over Fiber Network
When Chinese researchers’ announced in May last year they had used a quantum computer to crack RSA encryption, a widely used method to secure private data transmission, it caused a stir in the...
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The Top 8 Computing Stories of 2024
This year, IEEE Spectrum readers had a keen interest in all things software: What’s going on in the tumultuous world of open-source, why the sheer size of code is causing security vulnerabilities, and...
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This Cryptographer Helps Quantum-Proof the Internet
Users of Google’s Chrome browser can rest easy knowing that their surfing is secure, thanks in part to cryptographer Joppe Bos. He’s coauthor of a quantum-secure encryption algorithm that was adopted...
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Reversible Computing Escapes the Lab in 2025
Michael Frank has spent his career as an academic researcher working over three decades in a very peculiar niche of computer engineering. According to Frank, that peculiar niche’s time has finally...
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This Year, RISC-V Laptops Really Arrive
Buried in the inner workings of your laptop is a secret blueprint, dictating the set of instructions the computer can execute and serving as the interface between hardware and software. The...
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Ambitious Projects Could Reshape Geopolitics
Over the last year, Spectrum’s editors have noticed an emerging through line connecting several major stories: the centrality of technology to geopolitics. Last month, our cover story, done in...
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First Multiuse Optical Quantum Computer Comes to Japan
Quantum computers could in principle solve some complex mathematical problems that would take far too long on a regular, classical computer. However, efforts to make them practical and easily scalable...
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How Antivirus Software Has Changed With the Internet
We live in a world filled with computer viruses, and antivirus software is almost as old as the Internet itself: The first version of what would become McAfee antivirus came out in 1987—just four...
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The AI Boom Is Giving Rise to "GPU-as-a-Service"
The surge of interest in AI is creating a massive demand for computing power. Around the world, companies are trying to keep up with the vast amount of GPUs needed to power more and more advanced AI...
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