Electrical, Electronics & Instrumentation

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…

08 Jan 24

CES 2024 Preview: A Tricorder, Magic Mirrors, and a Solar EV

Electrical, Electronics & Instrumentation, Mechanical, Production & Manufacturing

CES 2024 kicks off on 9 January, but if you’re reading this on Monday, I’m already wandering through this technological wonderland, thanks to early media showcases. And over the past couple months, I’ve been combing through hundreds of advance announcements and embargoed news releases.CES, like just about everything else in…

08 Jan 24

The LEO Satellite Industry Needs More Engineers

Electrical, Electronics & Instrumentation, Mechanical, Production & Manufacturing

Look up. The odds are good that one or more low-Earth-orbit satellites are above you right now. Some 5,000 LEO satellites currently orbit 500 to 1,500 kilometers above the Earth, helping to forecast the weather, transmit data, and provide broadband Internet to underserved areas. It’s relatively inexpensive to launch the…

06 Jan 24

Generative AI Has a Visual Plagiarism Problem

Electrical, Electronics & Instrumentation, Mechanical, Production & Manufacturing

This is a guest post. The views expressed here are solely those of the authors and do not represent positions of IEEE Spectrum or the IEEE.The degree to which large language models (LLMs) might “memorize” some of their training inputs has long been a question, raised by scholars including Google…

06 Jan 24

Video Friday: 3-Course Cantonese Meal

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,…

05 Jan 24

How Tech Automated the January 6 Investigations

Electrical, Electronics & Instrumentation

Josh Coker’s Facebook page doesn’t show any MAGA memes or Trump quotes. He wasn’t live-streaming on 6 January 2021, and no one has ever stepped forward to identify him as one of the mob that stormed the US Capitol that day. But on 10 October last year, the Department of…

05 Jan 24

New Transistors Might Need a Different Cut of Silicon

Electrical, Electronics & Instrumentation, Mechanical, Production & Manufacturing

The wafers of silicon that ultimately become the chips in your smartphone consists of a single crystal. But that crystal has many faces, and it matters which of those faces is at the surface, where transistors are made. According to research presented last month at the 2023 IEEE International Electron…

05 Jan 24

What You Might Not Know About Connected Autonomous Vehicles

Electrical, Electronics & Instrumentation, Mechanical, Production & Manufacturing

Critical considerations pertinent to connected autonomous vehicles, such as ethics, liability, privacy, and cybersecurity, do not share the same spotlight as the CAVs’ benefits. Although CAVs’ abilities to reduce the number of fatal accidents and to consume less fuel receive most of the attention, the vehicles’ challenges are equally worthy…

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

CES 2024 Preview: A Tricorder, Magic Mirrors, and a Solar EV

The LEO Satellite Industry Needs More Engineers

Generative AI Has a Visual Plagiarism Problem

Video Friday: 3-Course Cantonese Meal

New Transistors Might Need a Different Cut of Silicon

What You Might Not Know About Connected Autonomous Vehicles

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