Electrical, Electronics & Instrumentation

05 Sep 23

Cory Doctorow: Interoperability Can Save the Open Web

Electrical, Electronics & Instrumentation

In his new book The Internet Con: How to Seize the Means of Computation, author Cory Doctorow presents a strong case for disrupting Big Tech. While the dominance of Internet platforms like Twitter, Facebook, Instagram, or Amazon is often taken for granted, Doctorow argues that these walled gardens are fenced…

05 Sep 23

How Python Swallowed the World

Electrical, Electronics & Instrumentation, Mechanical, Production & Manufacturing

Programmers seek languages that let them solve particular problems in concise, elegant ways and communicate those solutions to other programmers. For the last 10 years, IEEE Spectrum has been trying to help with that search with its annual interactive rankings of the Top Programming Languages, the latest of which is…

04 Sep 23

Ship begins laying 440km cable to link world’s largest offshore wind farm to UK energy grid

Electrical, Electronics & Instrumentation, Mechanical, Production & Manufacturing

The 1.4GW Sofia offshore wind farm is being built by energy firm RWE and, once complete, will be one of the world’s largest single offshore wind farms. Expected to be operational in 2026, Sofia forms part of the Dogger Bank wind farm project that will boast a combined energy output…

04 Sep 23

This Neural Net Maps Molecules to Aromas

Electrical, Electronics & Instrumentation, Mechanical, Production & Manufacturing

Sensory sciences have come a long way in explaining how some physical phenomena—a particular wavelength of light, for example, or a column of air vibrating at a set frequency—correspond to a typical perceptual experience. The sense of smell, however, has proven elusive. Until recently, there was simply no way to…

04 Sep 23

Onshore wind farm ban set to be overturned

Electrical, Electronics & Instrumentation, Mechanical, Production & Manufacturing

The UK government is reportedly set to change the laws that ban the construction of new onshore wind farms as a result of internal party pressures. The rule changes follow the proposal of an amendment to the Energy Bill – set to be voted on by the government on Tuesday…

03 Sep 23

Cracking the Puzzle of Serpentine Motion

Electrical, Electronics & Instrumentation, Mechanical, Production & Manufacturing

The counterintuitive and sinewy motions of snakes, stingrays, and skydivers represent a strange kind of motion that is notoriously hard to simulate, animate, or anticipate. All three types of locomotion—through sand, sea, and air—represent movement that relies on neither wings nor limbs but rather subtle and sometimes sudden changes of…

02 Sep 23

The USAF Pairs Piloted Jets With AI Drones

Electrical, Electronics & Instrumentation, Mechanical, Production & Manufacturing

Early chess computers were better than grandmasters at calculation but worse in judgement, and so the idea arose to pair them to get the best of both worlds. It worked, but not for long: Computers finally got too good to need human advice.Are we now at that sweet spot in…

02 Sep 23

Taking the Measure of the Earthquake That Destroyed Tokyo

Electrical, Electronics & Instrumentation, Mechanical, Production & Manufacturing

At 11:58 am on Saturday, 1 September 1923, the Kanto region of Japan started to shake. The earthquake began with a violent horizontal back-and-forth motion, followed by two vertical jolts, and then another horizontal shock even stronger than the first. The intensity of the tremor damaged the seismometer that took…

01 Sep 23

President’s Note: Forging Partnerships will Sharpen IEEE’s Edge

Electrical, Electronics & Instrumentation, Mechanical, Production & Manufacturing

As I shared in the March column, my goal as IEEE president is to work with all members—particularly students, young professionals, and affinity group members—to make IEEE a more successful and resilient global technical organization. I also want the organization to be globally recognized as a force for change. To…

01 Sep 23

Video Friday: Squishable Bugbot

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.IROS 2023: 1–5 October 2023, DETROITCLAWAR 2023: 2–4 October 2023, FLORIANOPOLIS,…

Cory Doctorow: Interoperability Can Save the Open Web

How Python Swallowed the World

Ship begins laying 440km cable to link world’s largest offshore wind farm to UK energy grid

This Neural Net Maps Molecules to Aromas

Onshore wind farm ban set to be overturned

Cracking the Puzzle of Serpentine Motion

The USAF Pairs Piloted Jets With AI Drones

Taking the Measure of the Earthquake That Destroyed Tokyo

President’s Note: Forging Partnerships will Sharpen IEEE’s Edge

Video Friday: Squishable Bugbot

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