The Big Picture features technology through the lens of photographers. Every month, IEEE Spectrum selects the most stunning technology images recently captured by photographers around the world. We choose images that reflect an important advance, or a trend, or that are just mesmerizing to look at. We feature all images on our site, and one […]
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. Robotics Summit & Expo: 10–11 May 2023, BOSTON ICRA 2023: 29 May–2 June 2023, LONDON […]
Unlike food, medicine, and cars, we have yet to see clear regulations or laws to guide AI design in the US. Without standard guidelines, companies that design and develop ML models have historically worked off of their own perceptions of right and wrong. This is about to change. As the EU finalizes its AI Act […]
A once-obscure financial term is now at the center of a Republican “anti-woke” crusade. On Monday, President Biden issued the first veto of his presidency on a measure that would have overturned a Labor Department rule allowing retirement fund managers to consider environmental and social impacts when making investment decisions. The strategy is more widely […]
On Monday, a panel of the world’s top climate scientists released a grave warning: Current policies are not enough to stave off the most devastating consequences of climate change. According to the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, or IPCC, climate pollution from the world’s existing coal, oil, and gas projects is already enough to launch […]
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Reconstructed model of an Acantharia skeleton showing the arrangement of spicules intersecting at a central point. Courtesy of Vivian Merk. A common marine planktonic organism, Acantharia, has a delicate star-shaped endoskeleton consisting of 20 arms or ‘spicules’ arranged in a unique geometric pattern. Unusually, these mineralized spicules are built from strontium sulfate. Now researchers from […]
Brian Johansen explains how improving human-vehicle communication can create a safer and less stressful environment for travellers People spend a lot of hours in transit, sometimes travelling alone or in close proximity to others. These experiences can potentially have a considerable impact on our sense of well-being, so there is a lot of focus on […]
New research into the use of perovskites as a cheaper alternative to silicon in solar cells and detectors has demonstrated how to make them even more efficient. To achieve this, scientists at the University of Rochester and the Chinese Academy of Sciences devised a physics-based approach to synthesizing perovskites using a substrate of either a layer […]
Intend to fly eVTOL aircraft from ORD to the Loop in 10 minutes, beginning in 2025.