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13 Jan 24

Daimler Truck Fuels Big Rigs With Hydrogen

Electrical, Electronics & Instrumentation, Mechanical, Production & Manufacturing

At CES this past week, the trucking startup Nikola showed off a hydrogen-fueled semi truck, one of its first ever built in the U.S. But the troubled company with a convicted founder is not the only player these days seeing a promising future in fuel-cell fueled big rigs. Daimler Truck…

13 Jan 24

Meet the Candidates Running for 2025 IEEE President-Elect

Electrical, Electronics & Instrumentation, Mechanical, Production & Manufacturing

The IEEE Board of Directors has nominated IEEE Fellows Mary Ellen Randall, John Verboncoeur, and S.K. Ramesh as candidates for 2025 IEEE president-elect.The winner of this year’s election will serve as IEEE president in 2026. For more information about the election, president-elect candidates, and petition process, visit the IEEE election…

12 Jan 24

Video Friday: Robot, Make me Coffee

Electrical, Electronics & Instrumentation, Mechanical, Production & Manufacturing

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 months. Please send us your events for inclusion.Cybathlon Challenges: 02 February 2024, ZURICHEurobot Open 2024: 8–11 May 2024,…

12 Jan 24

Open-Source AI Is Uniquely Dangerous

Electrical, Electronics & Instrumentation, Mechanical, Production & Manufacturing

This is a guest post. The views expressed here are solely those of the author and do not represent positions of IEEE Spectrum or the IEEE.When people think of AI applications these days, they likely think of “closed-source” AI applications like OpenAI’s ChatGPT—where the system’s software is securely held by…

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…

Daimler Truck Fuels Big Rigs With Hydrogen

Meet the Candidates Running for 2025 IEEE President-Elect

Video Friday: Robot, Make me Coffee

Open-Source AI Is Uniquely Dangerous

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?

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