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Real-time Audio Deepfakes Have Arrived

A cybersecurity firm has created convincing voices on the fly

3 min read
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SemiconductorsMagazineFeature

Diamond Blankets Will Keep Future Chips Cool

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Diamond Blankets Will Keep Future Chips Cool
Consumer ElectronicsNews

How User-Centered Design Aids Accessibility

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TelecommunicationsNews

Terahertz Tech Could Cut Data Center Cables

3 min read
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EnergyNews

Plastic Waste Transformed into Energy Storage

4 min read
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ComputingNews

Google’s New Quantum Algorithm May Actually Be Useful

4 min read
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AI Agents Leave Behind a Hidden Data Trail

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AIMagazineFeatureClimate TechClimate Change

High-Tech Weather Balloons Provide Data to Weather AI

Autonomous weather balloons surf the winds to collect needed data

12 min read
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EnergyNews

Old Aviation Engines Power New Data Centers

Modified turbofans are helping to power the data-center boom

4 min read
AIBiomedicalSponsored Article

Teaching AI to Predict What Cells Will Look Like Before Running Any Experiments

This powerful generative AI tool could accelerate drug discovery

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TelecommunicationsNews

Mesh Networks Reimagined for Political Protests

Real-world crowd models are remaking decentralized tech

5 min read

The Scale Issue

Humanity’s greatest challenges require us to radically scale up our ingenuity
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If We Want Bigger Wind Turbines, We’re Gonna Need Bigger Airplanes

9 min read
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Reality Is Ruining the Humanoid Robot Hype

5 min read
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Climate TechMagazineFeatureSpecial ReportsOctober 2025The Scale IssueClimate Change

How Much Carbon Do We Need to Capture?

3 min read
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AerospaceMagazineFeatureSpecial ReportsOctober 2025The Scale Issue

What’s Lost When Stars Disappear from View

8 min read
Will We Know Artificial General Intelligence When We See It?
AIMagazineFeatureSpecial ReportsOctober 2025The Scale Issue

Will We Know Artificial General Intelligence When We See It?

12 min read
A small robotic car with Arduino next to a tennis ball and a person's hands on a keyboard.
Consumer ElectronicsNews

Qualcomm Acquires Arduino, Shocking Open Source Fans

The acquisition raises concerns about open-source hardware’s future

5 min read
EnergyAISponsored Article

Intelligence Meets Energy: ADIPEC 2025 and the AI Revolution in the Energy Sector

Discover how AI is transforming energy with real-time decision-making

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RoboticsNewsHumanoid Robots

Caltech's M4 Robot Transforms, and More Robot Videos

Your weekly selection of awesome robot videos

3 min read

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ComputingMagazineFeatureSemiconductors

You Can Cool Chips With Lasers?!?!

Startup plans to cool data centers by converting heat to light

9 min read
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TransportationNewsEnergy

Simulation Advances Boost Electrification Efforts

Simulations enhance fuel-cell, battery, and motor development

4 min read
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EnergySponsored ArticleComputing

The Future of the Grid: Simulation-Driven Optimization

Multiphysics simulation provides critical insight into complex power grid components

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TransportationNewsEnergy

Electric Era’s Aerospace Secrets for Better EV Charging

Stationary battery storage and remote fault fixes ease grid burden

4 min read
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AIComputingTransportationNews

Faster, Smaller AI Model Found for Image Geolocation

Like an efficient and actually useful GeoGuessr expert

4 min read
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The NEC-Approved Solution That’s Changing How Fleets Approach EV Charging

Overcome the biggest barriers to fleet electrification

A field 5G base station inside of NextNav's laboratory.
TelecommunicationsNews

5G Could Be Key to Reliable Navigation Services

The technique does not require any new infrastructure to be built

3 min read
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RoboticsConsumer ElectronicsFeature

iRobot's Focus Group Changed Everything

Joe Jones describes how the Roomba came to be

9 min read