IEEE Spectrum September 2021

Most recent stories in IEEE Spectrum September 2021

• A rare and unbreakable 1963 cipher machine figured in a notorious U.S.-Swiss espionage affair code-named Rubicon.

  

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  The Scandalous History of the Last Rotor Cipher Machine

  ieee.org - Jon D. Paul

  Growing up in New York City, I always wanted to be a spy. But when I graduated from college in January 1968, the Cold War and Vietnam War were …

• SUVs are big, they’re bad, and beloved by consumers, whose raging demand has sent their market share soaring from 1.8 percent, in 1975, to more than 18 percent today. And these hulking brutes are undo … More

  

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  The Age of the Car is Gone, that of the SUV has succeeded

  ieee.org - Vaclav Smil

  The sport utility vehicle has become an acronym, but the SUV category's name is questionable. What does sport have to do with shopping in Walmart or …

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  200 Years Ago, Faraday Invented the Electric Motor

  ieee.org - Allison Marsh

  In 1820, the Danish physicist Hans Christian Ørsted threw electromagnetic theory into a state of confusion. Natural philosophers of the day believed …

• Continuing Moore’s Law means more than just shrinking transistors: Engineers will have to completely revamp how those transistors are powered.

  

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  Next-Gen Chips Will Be Powered From Below

  ieee.org - Eric Beyne

  For a time, each new processor churned out more waste heat than the last. Had these chips kept on the trajectory they were following in the early …

• Just five #EV battery companies today manufacture 83% of all electrified vehicle batteries deployed. Two of them (#CATL and @LG Energy Solution) grew an astronomical 3400% and 1193%, respectively betw … More

  

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  The Top 10 EV Battery Makers

  ieee.org - Lawrence Ulrich

  Boomtimes in Batteries It's a great time to be a battery maker: The world could see 145 million electric vehicles on roads by 2030, versus 10 million …

• Combine-driving AIs are harvesting grain across Russia.

  

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  An Army of Grain-harvesting Robots Marches Across Russia

  ieee.org - Olga Uskova

  The field of automated precision agriculture is based on one concept—autonomous driving technologies that guide vehicles through GPS navigation. …