December 2023 – Page 2 – ENGGtalks®

28 Dec 23

HVDC Networks Come to Europe

Electrical, Electronics & Instrumentation, Mechanical, Production & Manufacturing

The days are numbered for the Lerwick Power Station, whose diesel generators have supplied electricity to the Shetland Islands for over 70 years. Starting around the middle of 2024, the Shetlands—and also part of mainland Scotland—will be powered by the 443-megawatt Viking wind farm, consisting of 103 wind turbines on…

28 Dec 23

Content Credentials Will Fight Deepfakes in the 2024 Elections

Electrical, Electronics & Instrumentation, Mechanical, Production & Manufacturing

Last April, a campaign ad appeared on the Republican National Committee’s YouTube channel. The ad showed a series of images: President Joe Biden celebrating his reelection, U.S. city streets with shuttered banks and riot police, and immigrants surging across the U.S.-Mexico border. The video’s caption read: “An AI-generated look into…

27 Dec 23

A New Olympics Event: Algorithmic Video Surveillance

Electrical, Electronics & Instrumentation, Mechanical, Production & Manufacturing

As skiers schussed and swerved in a snow park outside Beijing during the 2022 Winter Olympics, a few may have noticed a string of towers along the way. Did they know that those towers were collecting wavelengths across the spectrum and scouring the data for signs of suspicious movement? Did…

27 Dec 23

Spectrum’s Top AI Stories of 2023

Electrical, Electronics & Instrumentation, Mechanical, Production & Manufacturing

2023 may well go down in history as one of the most wild and dramatic years in the history of artificial intelligence. People were still struggling to understand the power of OpenAI’s ChatGPT, which had been introduced in late 2022, when the company released its newest large language model, GPT-4,…

26 Dec 23

The Top 10 Semiconductor Stories of 2023

Electrical, Electronics & Instrumentation, Mechanical, Production & Manufacturing

If you were a reader of IEEE Spectrum in 2023 with an interest in semiconductors, this list of the top stories says some interesting things about you. For instance, you liked scandal and speed. But you’re also a discerning and forward-looking person. You wanted to know what the future of…

25 Dec 23

New Photonic Chip Is the Full Package

Electrical, Electronics & Instrumentation, Metallurgy & Material Science

Researchers at the University of Sydney have combined a photonic filter and modulator on a single chip in a way that allows them to precisely detect signals across a wide band of radiofrequency (RF) spectrum. The work brings photonic chips one step closer to one day potentially replacing bulkier and…

24 Dec 23

Can Flow Batteries Finally Beat Lithium?

Electrical, Electronics & Instrumentation, Mechanical, Production & Manufacturing

As she drives her electric vehicle to her mother’s house, Monique’s battery gauge indicates that it’s time to reenergize. She stops at a charging station, taps her credit card at the pump, inserts a nozzle into the car, and in 5 minutes exchanges 400 liters of spent nanofluid for fresher…

24 Dec 23

IEEE Celebrates Engineering Brilliance

Electrical, Electronics & Instrumentation, Mechanical, Production & Manufacturing

Meet the 2024 IEEE Medal and Recognition recipients. The awards are presented on behalf of the IEEE Board of Directors.IEEE MEDAL OF HONORSponsor: IEEE FoundationROBERT E. KAHNCorporation for National Research InitiativesReston, Va.“For pioneering technical and leadership contributions in packet communication technologies and foundations of the Internet.”IEEE FRANCES E. ALLEN MEDALSponsor:…

23 Dec 23

Artemis II Will Send Astronauts Around the Moon

Electrical, Electronics & Instrumentation, Mechanical, Production & Manufacturing

Before the end of this year, four people will climb into a spacecraft, fly to the moon, and swing around it before returning to Earth. Yes, been there, done that. But not for 51 years. NASA’s Artemis II mission, a warmup for a lunar landing planned for 2025, will mark…

Month: December 2023

HVDC Networks Come to Europe

Top Robotics Stories of 2023

Content Credentials Will Fight Deepfakes in the 2024 Elections

A New Olympics Event: Algorithmic Video Surveillance

Spectrum’s Top AI Stories of 2023

The Top 10 Semiconductor Stories of 2023

New Photonic Chip Is the Full Package

Can Flow Batteries Finally Beat Lithium?

IEEE Celebrates Engineering Brilliance

Artemis II Will Send Astronauts Around the Moon

Google won two major awards at MWC Barcelona 2025.

Expanding AI Overviews and introducing AI Mode

This MRI Can Run on Batteries

The Tiny Star Explosions Powering Moore’s Law