IEEE Spectrum November 2021

Most recent stories in IEEE Spectrum November 2021

• Build a home cluster—without a mess of cables.

  

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  Learn Docker and Kubernetes With the Turing Pi

  ieee.org - Stephen Cass

  Once upon a time, if you wanted to install a piece of software, you just stuck an executable file on your hard drive somewhere and went on your merry …

• Storing solar thermal energy means mass storage of heat—this we can do.

  

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  Thermal Solar Goes Where PVs Can’t

  ieee.org - Maria Gallucci

  Global solar energy supplies are growing rapidly, with nearly 10 times as much solar capacity installed today as there was a decade ago. Leading the …

• Wildfires make us wish for smoke alarms in the forest--but who would change the batteries? Nobody, with zero-power sensors.

  

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  A New Wildfire Watchdog

  ieee.org - Alissa M. Fitzgerald

  Why is the dog barking, you wonder, as you wake up? You notice the smell of smoke, and when you try to turn on your bedside light you discover that …

• It’s clear that one day soon, technologists will be able to create a virtual-reality “metaverse.” What isn’t clear is what function such a metaverse could serve.

  

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  The Metaverse Could Help Us Better Understand Reality

  ieee.org - Mark Pesce

  Certain neologisms seem to pop up, then disappear, only to return in another guise. William Gibson's award-winning 1984 science fiction classic …

• Volocopter, Wisk Aero, and Joby Aviation tell us why you should feel perfectly safe flying in their eVTOL aircraft.

  

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  Air Taxis Are Safe—According to the Manufacturers

  ieee.org - Evan Ackerman

  Electric vertical take-off and landing (eVTOL) aircraft for urban commuting are currently under development by more than a dozen different companies. …

• The new Windows 11 won’t run on many older systems, and hundreds of millions of users will thus be stranded on Windows 10. Many of those excluded likely don’t yet know this is happening, or why.

  

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  Windows 11 is Here, But Will It Run on Your PC?

  ieee.org - Matthew S. Smith

  Microsoft's Windows 11 is awesome. It also abandons millions of users. The latest version of Microsoft's 36-year-old operating system began its …