IEEE Spectrum March 2022

Most recent stories in IEEE Spectrum March 2022

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  Electric Buses Take Charge

  ieee.org - Willie Jones

  The Big Picture features technology through the lens of photographers.Every month, IEEE Spectrum selects the most stunning technology images recently …

• After decades of research, tokamaks and stellarators still face huge barriers to success.

  

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  NASA’s New Shortcut to Fusion Power

  ieee.org - Bayarbadrakh Baramsai

  Physicists first suspected more than a century ago that the fusing of hydrogen into helium powers the sun. It took researchers many years to unravel …

• Table football, babyfoot, kicker, biliardino, bordfodbold... whatever you call it, foosball is better with a robot.

  

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  Why We Built a Neuromorphic Robot to Play Foosball

  ieee.org - Gregory Cohen

  For the past 25 years or so, those of us who seek to mimic the brain’s workings in silicon have held an annual workshop in the mountain town of …

• Take DIY audio amps into the modern era

  

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  A Web-Enabled, High Quality, DIY Audio Amp

  ieee.org - Matthew Paulson

  For a long time I owned a beloved Sansui Electric integrated amplifier. These audio amplifiers combine a preamplifier for boosting the sound signal …

• Per capital consumption in many places is 50 kilowatt-hours per year—enough to power a 60-W bulb for two hours a day

  

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  Africa’s Electricity-Access Problem Is Worse Than You Think

  ieee.org - Vaclav Smil

  We measure access to electricity no better than we do the rate of literacy. Both are easy to define—a population’s share connected to the national …

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  EVTOL Companies Are Worth Billions—Who Are the Key Players?

  ieee.org - Glenn Zorpette

  “Hardware is hard,” venture capitalist Marc Andreessen famously declared at a tech investors’ event in 2013. Explaining the longstanding preference …