Using AI to Clear Land Mines in Ukraine
Gabriel Steinberg , co-founder of the nonprofit Demining Research Community and the startup Safe Pro AI talks with Spectrum editor Eliza Str...
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Fixing the Future
Fixing the Future from IEEE Spectrum magazine is a weekly look at the cultural, business, and environmental consequences of technological solutions to hard problems like sustainability, clim...
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20 of 65 episodesNever Recharge Your Consumer Electronics Again?
Founder and CEO of Exeger , Giovanni Fili , talks with IEEE Spectrum editor Stephen Cass about Exeger's Powerfoyle flexible dye-based solar...
The UK's ARIA Is Searching For Better AI Tech
The United Kingdom has created a new government agency, the Advanced Research and Invention Agency , or ARIA, similar to the United States'...
Zipline's Droid Brings U.S. Commercial Drone Delivery Closer
Zipline originally established itself delivering medical supplies in rural Africa . Now, Zipline cofounder and CTO Keenan Wyrobek talks with...
Heat Pumps Go North
Governments in America and Europe are pushing the deployment of heat pumps to reduce the energy demands of home heating and cooling. Spectru...
The Cutting Edge of Integrated Circuits: Exploding Chips, How Meta's Stacking It Up For AR, and More
IEEE Spectrum 's semiconductor expert, Samuel K. Moore , talks with Stephen Cass about his visit to one of the key conferences in emerging i...
Lean Software, Power Electronics, and the Return of Optical Storage
In this March roundup, IEEE Spectrum 's editor-in-chief Harry Goldstein and senior editor Stephen Cass talk about some of the highlights of...
The Autonomous Research System Lets Robots Do Your Lab Work
The Air Force Research Laboratory (AFRL) recently released the open-source ARES_OS , a key software component of their Autonomous Research S...
Figuring Out Semiconductor Manufacturing's Climate Footprint
The semiconductor industry is in the midst of a major expansion driven by the seemingly insatiable demands of AI, the addition of more intel...
The Brain Implant That Sidesteps The Competition
We've all seen impressive demos of prototype brain implants being used by paralyzed patients to interface with computers, but none of those...
The Finnish Future of Sustainable Electronics
The EU Sustronics program aims to make creating, maintaining, and recycling electronics more sustainable. Liisa Hakola is a senior scientist...
How To Avoid Trusting The Cloud
Security researchers Bruce Schneier and Barath Raghavan believe it's time to stop trusting our data to the cloud, where it can be exposed by...
New MEMS Tech Lets Watches Run For Over A Decade On A Single Battery
Co-CEO's of Silmach , Pierre-Francois Louvigne and Jean-Baptiste Carnet , talk about their new MEMS technology with IEEE Spectrum editor Gle...
SUSE, Oracle, And CIQ Create a New Linux Alliance
Alan Clark of SUSE talks with IEEE Spectrum editor Stephen Cass about the disruption in the enterprise Linux community caused by recent anno...
Justine Bateman's Fight Against Generative AI In Hollywood
Justine Bateman is an author and filmmaker. She also holds a degree in computer science from UCLA and is the AI advisor to SAG-AFTRA , the a...
Your Life As A Digital Ghost
Wendy H. Wong is a professor of political science at the University of British Columbia , and author of the just released book, We, The Data...
The Future of Moore's Law Is Inside This Willy Wonka Machine
IEEE Spectrum 's resident semiconductor expert Samuel K. Moore talks with host Stephen Cass about ASML's enormous machine that's at the hear...
Finding Battery Minerals With AI
Reducing our global carbon footprint by switching to electric vehicles means we need a lot more batteries. And that means we need a lot more...
Intel's Open Source Strategy
IEEE Spectrum 's Stephen Cass talks with Arun Gupta, vice president and general manager of Open Ecosystem Initiatives at Intel and chair of...
Finding The Wisest Ways To Global AI Regulation
Around the world, legislators are grappling with generative AI's potential for both innovation and destruction. Russell Wald is the Director...