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Microsoft AI spying scandal: time to rethink privacy standards (spectrum.ieee.org)

913 points by walterbell almost 55 years | 380 comments
Study: Recycled Lithium Batteries as Good as Newly Mined (spectrum.ieee.org)

635 points by mpweiher almost 55 years | 187 comments
Morris Tanenbaum, inventor of the silicon transistor, has died (spectrum.ieee.org)

470 points by furcyd almost 55 years | 100 comments
Indian startup 3D prints rocket engine in 72 hours (spectrum.ieee.org)

438 points by pseudolus almost 55 years | 272 comments
Ethernet Is Still Going Strong After 50 Years (spectrum.ieee.org)

416 points by pseudolus almost 55 years | 391 comments
AMD CEO: The Next Challenge Is Energy Efficiency (spectrum.ieee.org)

396 points by sohkamyung almost 55 years | 309 comments
Space Station incident demands independent investigation (spectrum.ieee.org)

394 points by multivac42 almost 55 years | 123 comments
The collapse of cryptokitties, the first big blockchain game (spectrum.ieee.org)

394 points by cycomanic almost 55 years | 360 comments
Disney packed big emotion into a little robot (spectrum.ieee.org)

378 points by rbanffy almost 55 years | 136 comments
A 2024 plea for lean software (spectrum.ieee.org)

374 points by pseudolus almost 55 years | 240 comments
Researchers claim first functioning graphene-based chip (spectrum.ieee.org)

373 points by Brajeshwar almost 55 years | 121 comments
“Quantum-Safe” Crypto Hacked by 10-Year-Old PC (spectrum.ieee.org)

370 points by oipoloi almost 55 years | 176 comments
Mars Helicopter Lands Safely After Serious In-Flight Anomaly (spectrum.ieee.org)

369 points by tmfi almost 55 years | 131 comments
How Boston Dynamics Taught Its Robots to Dance (spectrum.ieee.org)

368 points by samizdis almost 55 years | 200 comments
200 Years Ago, Faraday Invented the Electric Motor (spectrum.ieee.org)

363 points by RachelF almost 55 years | 96 comments
U.S. reenters the nuclear fuel game (spectrum.ieee.org)

357 points by beefman almost 55 years | 484 comments
Tips for programmers to stay ahead of generative AI (spectrum.ieee.org)

348 points by mfiguiere almost 55 years | 304 comments
Robot Sticks to Ceilings by Vibrating a Flexible Disc (spectrum.ieee.org)

347 points by sohkamyung almost 55 years | 60 comments
Intel is all-in on backside power delivery (spectrum.ieee.org)

345 points by mfiguiere almost 55 years | 157 comments
100 Years Ago, IBM Was Born (spectrum.ieee.org)

342 points by pseudolus almost 55 years | 180 comments
Functional programming should be the future of software (spectrum.ieee.org)

341 points by g4k almost 55 years | 504 comments
UV-K5 is the most hackable handheld ham radio yet (spectrum.ieee.org)

330 points by Brajeshwar almost 55 years | 184 comments
Intel, Samsung, and TSMC Demo 3D-Stacked Transistors (spectrum.ieee.org)

329 points by jnord almost 55 years | 130 comments
The computer graphics industry got started at the university of Utah (spectrum.ieee.org)

327 points by sohkamyung almost 55 years | 120 comments
AMD’s Lisa Su (spectrum.ieee.org)

326 points by sohkamyung almost 55 years | 146 comments
A tiny ultrabright laser that can melt steel (spectrum.ieee.org)

323 points by rbanffy almost 55 years | 195 comments
New superconductor microprocessor yields a substantial boost in efficiency (spectrum.ieee.org)

322 points by f00zz almost 55 years | 230 comments
Open Source PC That Fits in Your Pocket (spectrum.ieee.org)

322 points by walterbell almost 55 years | 295 comments
Existing smartphones will connect with new satellite constellations in 2023 (spectrum.ieee.org)

320 points by mfiguiere almost 55 years | 220 comments
The Webb Space Telescope’s profound data challenges (spectrum.ieee.org)

318 points by MindGods almost 55 years | 160 comments
How E Ink developed full-color e-paper (spectrum.ieee.org)

317 points by headalgorithm almost 55 years | 200 comments
The Inner Beauty of Basic Electronics (spectrum.ieee.org)

315 points by sohkamyung almost 55 years | 70 comments
.ai website registrations are a windfall for tiny Anguilla (spectrum.ieee.org)

311 points by headalgorithm almost 55 years | 209 comments
Watchy: Hackable $50 Smartwatch (spectrum.ieee.org)

302 points by ystad almost 55 years | 159 comments
“Imprecise” language models are smaller, speedier, and nearly as accurate (spectrum.ieee.org)

302 points by jnord almost 55 years | 169 comments
NASA's Perseverance rover will attempt to land on Mars this week (spectrum.ieee.org)

300 points by quercusa almost 55 years | 105 comments
Software is eating the car (spectrum.ieee.org)

287 points by avonmach almost 55 years | 537 comments
Femtosecond lasers create 3D midair plasma displays you can touch (2015) (spectrum.ieee.org)

284 points by jagged-chisel almost 55 years | 141 comments
Luiz André Barroso has died (spectrum.ieee.org)

282 points by martyvis almost 55 years | 40 comments
Switzerland moves ahead with underground autonomous cargo delivery (spectrum.ieee.org)

280 points by sohkamyung almost 55 years | 81 comments
Rodney Brooks on GPT-4 (spectrum.ieee.org)

277 points by marshblocker almost 55 years | 399 comments
Second Sight left users of its retinal implants in the dark (spectrum.ieee.org)

276 points by headalgorithm almost 55 years | 85 comments
Hyundai buys Boston Dynamics for nearly $1B (spectrum.ieee.org)

275 points by mg almost 55 years | 121 comments
Cerebras’ new monster AI chip adds 1.4T transistors (spectrum.ieee.org)

273 points by Anon84 almost 55 years | 165 comments
Roll Your Own All-Sky, Raspberry Pi Camera (spectrum.ieee.org)

273 points by sundarurfriend almost 55 years | 55 comments
50 Years Later, We’re Still Living in the Xerox Alto’s World (spectrum.ieee.org)

270 points by samizdis almost 55 years | 84 comments
AI copilots are changing how coding is taught (spectrum.ieee.org)

270 points by Brajeshwar almost 55 years | 487 comments
New Optical Switch Up to 1000x Faster Than Transistors (spectrum.ieee.org)

267 points by ofou almost 55 years | 92 comments
Minitel: The Online World France Built Before the Web (2017) (spectrum.ieee.org)

266 points by adrian_mrd almost 55 years | 124 comments
How engineers at Digital Equipment Corp. saved Ethernet (spectrum.ieee.org)

264 points by hasheddan almost 55 years | 102 comments
Boston Dynamics’ Stretch robot can move 800 heavy boxes per hour (spectrum.ieee.org)

263 points by pseudolus almost 55 years | 123 comments
Stop Calling Everything AI, Machine-Learning Pioneer Says (spectrum.ieee.org)

253 points by tmfi almost 55 years | 125 comments
Xerox PARC’s engineers on how they invented the future and Xerox lost it (1985) (spectrum.ieee.org)

247 points by sohkamyung almost 55 years | 114 comments
The EV Transition Is Harder Than Anyone Thinks (spectrum.ieee.org)

241 points by jnord almost 55 years | 936 comments
The teens behind the Mirai botnet (spectrum.ieee.org)

235 points by rbanffy almost 55 years | 81 comments
U.S. universities are building a new semiconductor workforce (spectrum.ieee.org)

235 points by mikhael almost 55 years | 242 comments
Disney's robots use rockets to stick the landing (spectrum.ieee.org)

235 points by rbanffy almost 55 years | 84 comments
How NASA Designed a Helicopter That Could Fly Autonomously on Mars (spectrum.ieee.org)

234 points by hacksilver almost 55 years | 92 comments
Engineer's solar panels are breaking efficiency records (spectrum.ieee.org)

230 points by belter almost 55 years | 280 comments
The Vacuum Tube’s Forgotten Rival (spectrum.ieee.org)

229 points by bangonkeyboard almost 55 years | 94 comments
The Real Story of Pixar (spectrum.ieee.org)

223 points by Hell_World almost 55 years | 74 comments
A DIY E-bike Conversion on the Cheap (spectrum.ieee.org)

223 points by PikelEmi almost 55 years | 258 comments
Stop Calling Everything AI, Machine-Learning Pioneer Says (spectrum.ieee.org)

223 points by Hard_Space almost 55 years | 118 comments
Micron's 232-layer NAND enables 2TB flash chips that deliver data 50% faster (spectrum.ieee.org)

221 points by samizdis almost 55 years | 125 comments
Build a passive radar with software-defined radio (spectrum.ieee.org)

221 points by samizdis almost 55 years | 53 comments
NASA's Laser Link Boasts Record-Breaking 200 Gbps Speed (spectrum.ieee.org)

220 points by mfiguiere almost 55 years | 113 comments
Posits, a New Kind of Number, Improves the Math of AI (spectrum.ieee.org)

220 points by cpeterso almost 55 years | 101 comments
PHOLED Will Transform Displays (spectrum.ieee.org)

220 points by bookofjoe almost 55 years | 191 comments
50 Years Later, This Apollo-Era Antenna Still Talks to Voyager 2 (spectrum.ieee.org)

220 points by jnord almost 55 years | 53 comments
THAT: A brand new analog computer (spectrum.ieee.org)

218 points by CharlesW almost 55 years | 91 comments
The inventor of the black box was told to drop the idea (spectrum.ieee.org)

216 points by sohkamyung almost 55 years | 104 comments
Michelin Puts Puffy Sails on Cargo Ships (spectrum.ieee.org)

212 points by rmason almost 55 years | 108 comments
Flying kites deliver container-sized power generation (spectrum.ieee.org)

211 points by geox almost 55 years | 170 comments
Andrew Ng: Unbiggen AI (spectrum.ieee.org)

209 points by sbehere almost 55 years | 84 comments
Indian researchers create a Raspberry-Pi-based device to monitor health (spectrum.ieee.org)

207 points by sebastianvoelkl almost 55 years | 54 comments
Interoperability can save the open web (spectrum.ieee.org)

207 points by pseudolus almost 55 years | 97 comments
ASML EUV lithography machine could keep Moore’s Law on track (spectrum.ieee.org)

206 points by mfiguiere almost 55 years | 183 comments
Single-chip processors have reached their limits (spectrum.ieee.org)

203 points by blopeur almost 55 years | 152 comments
Iron fuel shows its mettle (spectrum.ieee.org)

202 points by mfiguiere almost 55 years | 220 comments
IEEE Medal of Honor Goes to Data Compression Pioneer Jacob Ziv (spectrum.ieee.org)

201 points by tosh almost 55 years | 30 comments
NASA’s new shortcut to fusion power (spectrum.ieee.org)

200 points by GordonS almost 55 years | 138 comments
Remembering lithium-ion battery pioneer John Goodenough (spectrum.ieee.org)

200 points by rbanffy almost 55 years | 55 comments
To free the Baltic grid, old technology is new again (spectrum.ieee.org)

196 points by rbanffy almost 55 years | 151 comments
Geothermal may beat batteries for energy storage (spectrum.ieee.org)

196 points by rbanffy almost 55 years | 287 comments
Paper-Thin Solar Makes Any Surface Photovoltaic (spectrum.ieee.org)

195 points by rbanffy almost 55 years | 127 comments
Heat Pumps – The Well-Tempered Future of A/Cs (spectrum.ieee.org)

195 points by mfiguiere almost 55 years | 392 comments
“PACMAN” hack can break Apple M1’s last line of defense (spectrum.ieee.org)

193 points by furcyd almost 55 years | 11 comments
Vast new stores of water reported on the moon (spectrum.ieee.org)

191 points by mfiguiere almost 55 years | 181 comments
A Quadrillion Mainframes on Your Lap (spectrum.ieee.org)

188 points by TheBombe almost 55 years | 142 comments
David Frankel is a man on a mission against robocalls (spectrum.ieee.org)

188 points by rbanffy almost 55 years | 111 comments
AMD's Next GPU Is a 3D-Integrated Superchip (spectrum.ieee.org)

183 points by viewtransform almost 55 years | 124 comments
Flexible monocopter drone can be completely rolled up (spectrum.ieee.org)

181 points by YeGoblynQueenne almost 55 years | 50 comments
The Uncertain Future of Ham Radio (spectrum.ieee.org)

181 points by Stratoscope almost 55 years | 312 comments
Cold Fusion or Low-Energy Nuclear Reactions, U.S. Navy Researchers Reopen Case (spectrum.ieee.org)

181 points by tmfi almost 55 years | 141 comments
The Mythical Non-Roboticist: Wouldn't it be great if everyone could do robotics? (spectrum.ieee.org)

181 points by rbanffy almost 55 years | 153 comments
EVs Are Essential Grid-Scale Storage (spectrum.ieee.org)

179 points by rbanffy almost 55 years | 248 comments
Claude Shannon: Tinkerer, Prankster, and Father of Information Theory (2016) (spectrum.ieee.org)

178 points by phonebucket almost 55 years | 34 comments
An Engineer's View of Venture Capitalists (2001) (spectrum.ieee.org)

178 points by sebg almost 55 years | 116 comments
Silicon Valley stays on top as tech salaries climb across U.S. (spectrum.ieee.org)

178 points by samizdis almost 55 years | 258 comments
TSMC R&D chief: There’s light at the end of the chip shortage (spectrum.ieee.org)

177 points by t23 almost 55 years | 104 comments