Tens of thousands of tech workers have been laid off by companies recently, including at Amazon, Dropbox, GitHub, Google, Microsoft, and Vimeo. Startups, too, have made cuts, according to [...]
I love plants. I am not great with plants. I have accepted this fact and have therefore entrusted the lives of all of the plants in my care to robots. These aren’t fancy robots: They’re [...]
For more than a century, utility companies have used electromechanical relays to protect power systems against damage that might occur during severe weather, accidents, and other abnormal [...]
As I read the newest papers about
DNA-based computing, I had to confront a rather unpleasant truth. Despite being a geneticist who also majored in computer science, I was struggling to bridge [...]
Video Friday is your weekly selection of awesome robotics videos, collected by your friends at IEEE Spectrum robotics. We also post a weekly calendar of upcoming robotics events for the next few [...]
Calling all robot fanatics! We are the creators of the Robots Guide, IEEE’s interactive site about robotics, and we need your help.
Today, we’re expanding our massive catalog to nearly 250 [...]
The most advanced manufacturers of computer processors are in the middle of the first big change in device architecture in a decade—the shift from finFETs to nanosheets. Another 10 years should [...]
There was a time, decades really, when all it took to make a better computer chip were smaller transistors and narrower interconnects. That time’s long gone now, and although transistors will [...]
Stephen Cass: Welcome to Fixing the Future, an IEEE Spectrum podcast. This episode is brought to you by IEEE Xplore, the digital library with over 6 million technical documents and free search. [...]
First-year college students are understandably frustrated when they can’t get into popular upper-level electives. But they usually just gripe. Paras Jha was an exception. Enraged that [...]
As an object, “TV Bra” perfectly encapsulates Paik’s artistic goals, Moorman’s brilliance as a performer, their personal history, and its cultural context.
The quantification of bodies, senses, and experience did not begin with surveillance capitalism but can be traced back to mathematical and statistical techniques of the 19th century.
Twenty-five years before our era of fake news and celebrity pseudoscience, the star actor teamed up with Montel Williams to promote an unfounded conspiracy.
Bonnie Marranca, the longtime editor of PAJ: A Journal of Performance and Art, speaks with the legendary performer, visual artist, composer, poet, and filmmaker.
Barbara Mazzolai’s roboplants could analyze and enrich soil, search for water and other chemicals, or even be used to grow infrastructure from scratch.
Enlarge / On May 22, John Timmer (left) moderated a panel featuring Karin Bok (center) and Nathaniel Wang (right) for the Ars Frontiers 2023 session titled, "Beyond COVID: What Does mRNA [...]
Enlarge / A colorful, textured bi-layer film made from plant-based materials cools down when it’s in the sun. (credit: Qingchen Shen)
Summer is almost here, bringing higher [...]
Enlarge / Inside the Steve Jobs Theater building at Apple's headquarters. (credit: Samuel Axon)
Apple's 2023 Worldwide Developer Conference is just a few days away—it kicks off [...]
Enlarge / Elizabeth Holmes, founder of Theranos Inc., center, arrives at Federal Prison Camp Bryan in Bryan, Texas, US, on Tuesday, May 30, 2023. (credit: Getty | Bloomberg) [...]
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A lawyer is in trouble after admitting he used ChatGPT to help write court filings that cited six nonexistent cases invented by the [...]
Enlarge / Ziggy is a battery-powered EV charger on wheels that can come visit individual parking spaces to recharge EVs where they park. (credit: EV Safe Charge)
There are a few [...]
Enlarge / The Microsoft Surface Pro X. (credit: Jeff Dunn)
Microsoft has issued a workaround for broken Surface Pro X cameras following user reports that the integrated webcams [...]
Enlarge / An AI-generated image of "AI taking over the world." (credit: Stable Diffusion)
On Tuesday, the Center for AI Safety (CAIS) released a single-sentence statement signed [...]
Enlarge / The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) headquarters stands in Atlanta, Georgia, on Saturday, March 14, 2020. (credit: Getty | Bloomberg)
The tally of [...]
Uber driver Adams Ikemu Adakole diligently paid the daily installments on his car loan from Nigerian vehicle-financing firm Moove for three months. But in February 2023, his work came to...
Tosin Eniolorunda is the founder and CEO of Moniepoint, Africa’s second-fastest-growing company in 2023. He spoke to Rest of World about the impact of Nigeria’s recent cash crisis on the...
It was noon, and the Delhi summer sun was beating down on Rajeev. The food delivery driver was drenched in sweat and visibly exhausted, but he couldn’t afford to take...
Today, as China’s tech companies expand their influence beyond the country’s borders, it’s hard to tell where Chinese internet begins and ends. TikTok, owned by Chinese tech juggernaut [...]
In September 2022, Zwigato, a Hindi-language film about the lives of food delivery workers in India, premiered at the Toronto International Film Festival amid much fanfare. The movie was released...
Late last year, Jordanian car dealer Waleed Alheet ordered six BYD electric cars from a supplier in Jinan, China. He sold all six cars 10 days after they went on...
Huy Dao, an entrepreneur in Ho Chi Minh City, thought he had nailed the perfect TikTok: informative, playful, and ultimately harmless. Instead, he wound up fueling TikTok’s escalating clash with...
After years away from the limelight, one of Latin America’s most beloved crooners, Luis Miguel, will take the stage in the coming months, touring venues across the region and the...
Kenya’s government is set to roll out a controversial plan that it says will help tackle the problem of counterfeit mobile devices. But digital rights activists and telecommunications experts [...]
In 2021, Nepal’s electric vehicle sector had its big moment when a homegrown startup introduced an EV bike that had been designed, developed, and produced in the country. The P1...
Sunburns are terrible. The skin blisters and peels. Even a light brush from putting on clothes or tucking into bed sheets is agony.
Now imagine having those blisters at just six months old. But the [...]
After a three-year hiatus, scientists in the US have just turned on detectors capable of measuring gravitational waves—tiny ripples in space itself that travel through the universe.
Unlike light [...]
COMPUTING
IBM Wants to Build a 100,000-Qubit Quantum Computer
Michael Brooks | MIT Technology Review
“Late last year, IBM took the record for the largest quantum computing system with a [...]
The ability of machines to read our minds has been steadily progressing in recent years. Now, researchers have used AI video generation technology to give us a window into the mind’s eye.
The main [...]
From Kenya to Mexico, Texas, and beyond, 3D-printed houses are starting to go up all over the world. Besides providing a durable and aesthetically pleasing structure, one of the biggest goals of [...]
Virtual reality experiences depend on goggles and headphones, transporting wearers to new places using sight and sound. Be it a peaceful meadow where the only sounds are birds chirping and the breeze [...]
There has been shock around the world at the rapid rate of progress with ChatGPT and other artificial intelligence created with what’s known as large language models (LLMs). These systems can [...]
Robots are nothing new. They build our cars, vacuum our floors, prepare our e-commerce orders, and even help carry out surgeries. But now the sci-fi vision of a general-purpose humanoid robot seems [...]
To those who study existential risk, the list of threats is lengthening. If nuclear war doesn’t end us, a designer virus or AI might. The good news? No giant asteroids will strike this [...]
ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE
ChatGPT Is Already Obsolete
Matteo Wong | The Atlantic
“Language-only models such as the original ChatGPT are now giving way to machines that can also process images, [...]
