IEEE SpectrumThis AI Hunts for Hidden Hoards of Battery Metalsieee.org - Josh GoldmanIn June 2022, six Boeing 737s—fully loaded with tents, food, satellite Internet equipment, drones, geophysical survey gear, drilling equipment, and a …
IEEE SpectrumThe Strange Story of the Teens Behind the Mirai Botnetieee.org - Scott J. ShapiroFirst-year college students are understandably frustrated when they can’t get into popular upper-level electives. But they usually just gripe. Paras …
IEEE SpectrumU.S. Universities Are Building a New Semiconductor Workforceieee.org - Prachi PatelThe CHIPS and Science Act, aimed at kick-starting chip manufacturing in the United States, only began taking requests for pieces of its US $50 …
IEEE SpectrumFlight Simulator Gave Birth to 3D Video-Game Graphicsieee.org - Matthew S. SmithIn 1999 Bill Gatespenned a moving tribute to the Wright brothers. He credited their winged invention as “the World Wide Web of that era,” one that …
IEEE SpectrumEnding an Ugly Chapter in Chip Designieee.org - Samuel K. MooreDiscussions at chip design conferences rarely get heated. But a year ago at the International Symposium on Physical Design (ISPD), things got out of …
IEEE SpectrumMIT Turbocharges Python’s Notoriously Slow Compilerieee.org - Rina Diane CaballarPython has long been one of—if not the—top programming languages in use. Yet while the high-level language’s simplified syntax makes it easy to learn …