How a Harvard Engineer Lost Three Grants in One Day
Last week, the federal government terminated hundreds of research grants to Harvard University professors from a broad range of fields
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Prototype Computer Uses Noise to Its Advantage
A new computing paradigm—thermodynamic computing—has entered the scene. Okay, okay, maybe it’s just probabilistic computing by a new name. They
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Rugged, Micro Data Centers Bring Rural Reliability
Rural connectivity is still a huge issue. As of 2022, approximately 28 percent of Americans living in rural areas did
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AI Workloads Spur Storage Drives
At the SC24 supercomputing conference held in November in Atlanta, Hafþór Júlíus Björnsson (the actor who played the Mountain in
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Reversible Computing Escapes the Lab in 2025
Michael Frank has spent his career as an academic researcher working over three decades in a very peculiar niche of
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The Top 8 Computing Stories of 2024
This year, IEEE Spectrum readers had a keen interest in all things software: What’s going on in the tumultuous world
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Graphene Interconnects Aim to Give Moore’s Law New Life
The semiconductor industry’s long held imperative—Moore’s Law, which dictates that transistor densities on a chip should double roughly every two
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New Fastest Supercomputer Will Simulate Nuke Testing
In 1965, the United States and other nuclear powers committed to the Comprehensive Nuclear-Test-Ban Treaty, which prohibited nuclear tests. The
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Brain-like Computers Tackle the Extreme Edge
Neuromorphic computing draws inspiration from the brain, and Steven Brightfield, chief marketing officer for Sydney-based startup BrainChip, says that makes
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Startup Says It Can Make a 100x Faster CPU
In an era of fast-evolving AI accelerators, general purpose CPUs don’t get a lot of love. “If you look at
