Electrical, Electronics & Instrumentation

29 Aug 23

Google Develops Quantum-Safe Security Keys

Electrical, Electronics & Instrumentation

There’s a race on to update the cybersecurity infrastructure before quantum computers become capable of cracking the current standards. Now Google has developed a quantum-resilient way of implementing the FIDO2 security key standard, an increasingly popular method of authentication that’s used as an alternative to passwords.Security keys, like passwords, help…

28 Aug 23

Satellite Communications Constellation Modeling and Physical Layer Design

Electrical, Electronics & Instrumentation

The emerging trend to incorporate satellite constellations for wireless communications drives the needs to model and analyze large constellations and multi-domain scenarios that include satellites, aircraft, and moving ground vehicles. This webinar discusses design challenges and tools to perform end-to-end link simulations with signals like 5G NTN, DVB-S2/S2X/RCS2, and GPS.…

28 Aug 23

Next Generation Technologies for Semiconductor Failure Analysis

Electrical, Electronics & Instrumentation, Metallurgy & Material Science

The continuous downscaling of semiconductor technology nodes imposes ever more stringent requirements on metrology and failure analysis tools. This webinar will discuss recent advances in the following tools for failure analysis: Energy dispersive spectrometry (EDS) – EDS on a scanning electron microscope (SEM) and transmission electron microscope (TEM) is a…

28 Aug 23

How to Engineer a Reliable $1 Sensor for Safe Drinking Water

Electrical, Electronics & Instrumentation

Hundreds of thousands of people die from drinking unsafe water every year, according to the World Health Organization. For example, diarrhea transmitted from bacterial contamination is estimated to cause over 500,000 deaths annually. Toxic heavy metals in drinking water, such as arsenic, lead, and mercury, also pose huge health risks.…

27 Aug 23

Make Your Own Digital Pinhole Camera

Electrical, Electronics & Instrumentation, Mechanical, Production & Manufacturing

My home of Port Townsend in Washington is a community full of arty types and makers. Calls to participate in local cultural activities are not uncommon, but when I saw one for a pinhole-camera photography contest it caught my eye. I’d played with pinhole cameras many years ago, and I…

27 Aug 23

Granville T. Woods: Smartest Guy in the Room

Electrical, Electronics & Instrumentation, Mechanical, Production & Manufacturing

Any home baker will confirm that, even if you have all the right ingredients and follow the recipe, things don’t always turn out the way you envisioned. Such was the life of inventor extraordinaire Granville T. Woods.Who was Granville T. Woods?Woods was endowed with intellectual gifts that allowed him, despite…

26 Aug 23

Why Today’s Chatbots Are Weird, Argumentative, and Wrong

Electrical, Electronics & Instrumentation, Mechanical, Production & Manufacturing

Long before most people began playing around with generative AI models like ChatGPT and DALL-E, Janelle Shane started documenting AI oddities. An optics researcher by training, she’s also held a long fascination in testing AIs’ ability to be, well, normal. With more and more people testing AI limits than ever…

25 Aug 23

Video Friday: TruckBot

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.IEEE RO-MAN 2023: 28–31 August 2023, BUSAN, SOUTH KOREAIROS 2023: 1–5…

25 Aug 23

Energy cap to fall below £2,000 from October

Electrical, Electronics & Instrumentation, Mechanical, Production & Manufacturing

The new energy price cap set by Ofgem, the British energy regulator, is below £2,000 for the first time in 18 months, but it remains significantly higher than during 2020 and 2021 before the Russian invasion of Ukraine pushed up energy prices. The cap does not set the maximum a…

25 Aug 23

Meta’s Flamera Has a New Vision for Augmented Reality

Electrical, Electronics & Instrumentation

Meta’s latest prototype headset, Flamera, looks ripped straight from a sci-fi action flick—and it quickly turned heads at SIGGRAPH 2023, where Flamera won the coveted Best in Show award.The Flamera headset, bug-eyed and glowing ominous red, is an intimidating piece of kit that looks radically different from its peers. And…

Google Develops Quantum-Safe Security Keys

Satellite Communications Constellation Modeling and Physical Layer Design

Next Generation Technologies for Semiconductor Failure Analysis

How to Engineer a Reliable $1 Sensor for Safe Drinking Water

Make Your Own Digital Pinhole Camera

Granville T. Woods: Smartest Guy in the Room

Why Today’s Chatbots Are Weird, Argumentative, and Wrong

Video Friday: TruckBot

Energy cap to fall below £2,000 from October

Meta’s Flamera Has a New Vision for Augmented Reality

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