IEEE Spectrum January 2022

Most recent stories in IEEE Spectrum January 2022

• Who needs Terminators when you have precision clickbait and ultra-deepfakes?

  

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  AI’s 6 Worst-Case Scenarios

  ieee.org - Natasha Bajema

  Hollywood’s worst-case scenario involving artificial intelligence (AI) is familiar as a blockbuster sci-fi film: Machines acquire humanlike …

• A marriage of two former rival technologies, quantum dots and OLEDs, shakes up the TV industry. Learn how it works.

  

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  Quantum Dots + OLED = Your Next TV

  ieee.org - Peter Palomaki

  For more than a decade now, OLED (organic light-emitting diode) displays have set the bar for screen quality, albeit at a price. That’s because they …

• The 2022 Winter Olympic Games will showcase renewably sourced electricity, hydrogen-powered buses, and ice rinks that use climate-friendly refrigerant.

  

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  China Will Attempt First Carbon-Neutral Winter Olympics

  ieee.org - Prachi Patel

  About 160 kilometers northwest of Beijing, the city of Zhangjiakou with its rugged terrain boasts some of the richest wind and solar resources in …

• When all the cars in Europe carry the newly mandated safety features, it could save 4,000 lives a year.

  

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  Europe Mandates Automatic Emergency Braking

  ieee.org - Philip E. Ross

  In 2022, cars in many countries must start carrying automatic emergency braking. The technology has been around for years, but requiring it marks a …

• Militarized AI threatens a new arms race.

  

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  U.S. vs. China Rivalry Boosts Tech—and Tensions

  ieee.org - Craig S. Smith

  In June 2020, OpenAI, an independent artificial-intelligence research lab based in San Francisco, announced GPT-3, the third generation of its …

• Exascale computing is soon coming to Tennessee.

  

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  Frontier Supercomputer to Usher in Exascale Computing

  ieee.org - David Schneider

  In 2018, a new supercomputer called Summit was installed at Oak Ridge National Laboratory, in Tennessee. Its theoretical peak capacity was nearly 200 …