January 2024 – Page 6 – ENGGtalks®

11 Jan 24

At CES 2024, AI Is Here to Help

Electrical, Electronics & Instrumentation

If you believe the hype, AI will someday generate Hollywood films, cure cancer, and make driving a historical oddity. But at CES 2024 it’s tackling some more immediate and achievable goals.LG and Samsung touted AI features that tune your television’s picture quality. Nvidia can use its GPUs to find what…

11 Jan 24

Sandpaper + Machine Learning = Better X-ray Images

Computer & Information Technology

To build a better battery, you might start by improving the materials inside. Researchers often do that by first inspecting new materials and chemicals with high-powered X-rays from a synchrotron. But that’s a slow and tedious process. A surprising solution to speeding things up has recently emerged—sandpaper. “The major motivation…

11 Jan 24

E-Nose Sniffs Out Coffee Varieties Nearly Perfectly

Electrical, Electronics & Instrumentation

This article is part of our exclusive IEEE Journal Watch series in partnership with IEEE Xplore.Some truly passionate java junkies may be adept at distinguishing between various coffee flavors, but a new e-nose may give these folks a run for their money. The new sensing system, which can distinguish coffee…

11 Jan 24

What Is Bitcoin’s True Environmental Impact?

Computer & Information Technology

The vast network of computer hardware that keeps the Bitcoin network running requires a staggering amount energy. That has led to concerns about the cryptocurrency’s effect on the environment. But assessing the cryptocurrency’s actual, bottom-line impact is not as simple as it might seem, say experts. Bitcoin’s huge computational demands…

10 Jan 24

Single-Photon Source Reaps Gain for Quantum Internet

Electrical, Electronics & Instrumentation

Producing photons one at a time on demand at room temperature is a key requirement for the rollout of a quantum internet—and the practical quantum computers that would undergird that network. The photons can be used as quantum bits (qubits), the quantum equivalent of classical computing’s 0s and 1s. Labs…

10 Jan 24

Can Electronics Become Compostable?

Electrical, Electronics & Instrumentation, Mechanical, Production & Manufacturing

Stephen Cass: Hello and welcome to Fixing the Future, an IEEE Spectrum podcast, where we look at concrete solutions to some big problems. I’m your host, Stephen Cass, a senior editor at IEEE Spectrum. And before we start, I just want to tell you that you can get the latest…

09 Jan 24

The Global Project to Make a General Robotic Brain

Electrical, Electronics & Instrumentation, Mechanical, Production & Manufacturing

The generative AI revolution embodied in tools like ChatGPT, Midjourney, and many others is at its core based on a simple formula: Take a very large neural network, train it on a huge dataset scraped from the Web, and then use it to fulfill a broad range of user requests.…

09 Jan 24

X-rays Reveal a New Phase of Matter

Electrical, Electronics & Instrumentation, Metallurgy & Material Science

In a scientific breakthrough that could reshape our understanding of how light interacts with matter, researchers from the Attoscience and Ultrafast Optics group at the Institute of Photonic Sciences (ICFO) in Barcelona, Spain have discovered a new phase of matter, aptly named a “light-matter hybrid”. The findings, published in Nature…

09 Jan 24

CES 2024: Neuchips Demos Low-Power AI Upgrade For PCs

Electrical, Electronics & Instrumentation, Mechanical, Production & Manufacturing

What if any desktop PC could become an AI inference beast with a single upgrade? And what if that transformed beast still sipped power like it was enjoying a martini? That’s the idea pitched by Neuchips, a Taiwanese startup founded in 2019 and known for delivering top-class AI efficiency. It…

09 Jan 24

This Rice University Professor Developed Cancer-Detection Technology

Electrical, Electronics & Instrumentation, Mechanical, Production & Manufacturing

Rebecca Richards-Kortum has spent most of her 30-year career developing technology to help improve medical care in underserved communities worldwide. Among her achievements: She invented an inexpensive, battery-operated optical imaging system that can detect premalignant tissues—no biopsy required—to help prevent oral and cervical cancer. Richards-Kortum is a professor of bioengineering…

Month: January 2024

At CES 2024, AI Is Here to Help

Sandpaper + Machine Learning = Better X-ray Images

E-Nose Sniffs Out Coffee Varieties Nearly Perfectly

What Is Bitcoin’s True Environmental Impact?

Single-Photon Source Reaps Gain for Quantum Internet

Can Electronics Become Compostable?

The Global Project to Make a General Robotic Brain

X-rays Reveal a New Phase of Matter

CES 2024: Neuchips Demos Low-Power AI Upgrade For PCs

This Rice University Professor Developed Cancer-Detection Technology

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