This Digital Radio Gets Messages to the World’s Remotest Locations

Shortwave radios offer a way to connect one location on Earth to practically anywhere else with minimal infrastructure. But these radios come with some drawbacks—a significant one being that, unlike satellite communications, their transmission rates for…

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Parallel Reads and Write Optimization for Large-Scale Data Replication

This White Paper gives data engineers and architects a practical overview of how parallel partitioned reads, write-path optimization, and cloud-native bulk loading reduce large-table replication times, and why replication speed has become a business concern…

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Turning Tech Talent Into Leadership Legacy

Transitioning from years of working in a senior technical or executive role to a leadership position is one of the most challenging phases of a STEM career. It requires moving away from making decisions on your own to mentoring others, making strategic…

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Rethinking Robot Safety in the Age of AI

This article is brought to you by VicOne . Robot safety has traditionally asked: Can a machine remain safe when something goes wrong? Physical AI raises a harder question: Can a machine remain safe when an attacker changes what it sees, decides, or does even…

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Single-Phase Direct Liquid Cooling Is Proven for the Next Decade of Ultra-Dense Compute

Learn how single-phase direct liquid cooling manages the rising heat of AI and high-performance computing, and how it compares with two-phase and immersion approaches. Download this free whitepaper now!

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The AI Inference Revolution Is Here

Since about 2020, AI has largely focused on training bigger and better models. Large language models (LLMs) ballooned from millions of parameters to trillions. This proved effective: The largest version of OpenAI’s GPT-3, released in 2020, correctly answered…

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The Mind-bending Joyrides That Gave Rise to Tesla

In 2003, Martin Eberhard, a cofounder of Tesla Motors , decided it was time to start wooing investors. To do that, however, he needed an electric car. So he talked to Alan Cocconi and asked if he could borrow the tZero , the revolutionary and blazingly fast…

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Countries Seek to Curb Social Media Addiction for Kids

Social media plays a significant, multifaceted role in adolescents’ development, influencing how they communicate, learn, socialize, and express themselves. The benefits, however, are accompanied by risks that can undermine youngsters’ character as well as…

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Responsible AI for Higher Education

This interactive webinar will introduce the different types of AI, address the concerns with AI, share how we IBM are approaching Responsible AI, and offer guidance to students about what they can do - as individuals, and members of their IEEE chapters…

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IEEE to Reward Sections for High Voter Turnout in Annual Election

For this year’s IEEE annual election , the IEEE Tellers Committee will recognize the Sections with the highest voter turnout (based on total eligible voters) in each Region with an incentive reward after the election results are accepted by the IEEE Board of…

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Codeveloper of Ethernet Predecessor Dies at 91

Franklin “Frank” Kuo Codeveloper of ALOHAnet Fellow, 91; died 14 April Kuo helped develop ALOHAnet , a pioneering computer system at the University of Hawaii at Mānoa , in Honolulu. The system went online in 1971 and represented the first public demonstration…

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An Engineer’s Guide to Surviving a Layoff

This article is crossposted from IEEE Spectrum ’s careers newsletter. Sign up now to get insider tips, expert advice, and practical strategies, written i n partnership with tech career development company Parsity and delivered to your inbox for free! I lost a…

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Rivian’s Gambit for Full Autonomy

I’m sitting in a Rivian R1S SUV as it drives itself down the leafy streets of Palo Alto, Calif. , through areas crowded with touchstones of tech history. We cruise near the landmark HP Garage , the one-car workshop where Hewlett-Packard, and, arguably…

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The Growing Proof That Autonomous Cars Save Lives

Plenty of people remain spooked by autonomous vehicles, or AVs. Some experts and policymakers have cautioned that AVs won’t necessarily make roads safer. When it comes to partial or full autonomy, the picture isn’t entirely clear, in part because there aren’t…

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