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Predict Antenna Coupling on Electrically Large Platforms Before Building Hardware
Learn how full-wave simulation predicts very low antenna coupling on aircraft-sized platforms, and which three modeling techniques deliver accurate results with fewer computational resources. Download this free whitepaper now!
BlindLock hides your password manager and secure vault in a PNG image — also offers secure notes, 2FA, and a crypto address book, with optional hardware securit
A new local‑only password manager, notes app, and secure vault that hides your secrets in an ordinary-looking .
IEEE Senior Membership Demystified
For most of my career, my IEEE membership sat quietly in the background—a line on my résumé, a discount code for a conference registration, and access to the IEEE Xplore digital library , which I underutilized.
IEEE Student Conference Provides Visibility to Budding Authors
The IEEE–Eta Kappa Nu (IEEE-HKN) honor society is preparing to host the Innovating the Future event on 6 November.
NASA’s Cargo-Moving Robotic Arm Named 300th IEEE Milestone
In the 1960s NASA began developing a system of reusable space shuttles to make its work more efficient and to reduce costs.
Chinese court freezes $318 million in Nexperia assets as Wingtech presses to regain control — Dutch chipmaker says seizures won't affect day-to-day operations
A court in Dongguan, China, has frozen 2.14 billion yuan (roughly $318 million) in assets held by Dutch chipmaker Nexperia and its equipment arm, ITEC, according to a filing that Chinese parent company Wingtech Technology submitted to the Shanghai Stock Exchange today.
Arm faces potential shareholder revolt over CEO's 'excessive' $800 million pay package — huge stock award would only be fully realised if chip designer hits $2
British semiconductor and software design company Arm is asking shareholders to approve a massive performance-based pay package for CEO Rene Haas worth up to $800 million if the company reaches a $2 trillion valuation, a move that has drawn pushback from proxy advisors ahead of a
IEEE Engineering Summit Supports Bhutan’s Digital Transformation
In collaboration with the Kingdom of Bhutan government, IEEE recently introduced its Engineering Education, Research, and Innovation Summit.
Nvidia’s stock is climbing as investors get more confidence in an expanding base of AI customers
Dell’s earnings showed that demand for AI hardware extends beyond major cloud providers.
From AI Copilots to Agent Swarms
The impact of AI on software development has been both profound and ever-evolving.
Digital Signal Processing Pioneer Bede Liu Dies At 91
Bede Liu, a digital signal processing pioneer, died on 7 May.
IEEE Presidents’ Scholarship Honors Teen Innovators
About 16 percent of the global population—more than 1 billion people—live with some form of disability, according to the World Health Organization .
Stop Hunting, Start Solving: Accelerating Root Cause Analysis with Agentic AI
About this Webinar Turn Yield Excursions into Faster, More Confident Root Cause Analysis When a yield issue emerges, the answer rarely lives in a single system.
This IEEE Senior Member Develops AI Tools for E-Commerce Sites
Balaji Ingole rarely saw televisions while growing up in Udgir, India.
Poetry for Engineers: Safe Distance
How do I touch you across the ocean, across cold depths where light travels through glass.
Building Technology People Can Trust
This article is brought to you by Emerson .
IBM Built the Cold War’s Most Powerful Code Breaker for the NSA
At the height of the Cold War, one very specialized computer was so secret that the world didn’t know it existed.
What It Takes to Be an Adaptable Engineer
The AI boom has disrupted the way engineers work, introducing new tools to learn, raising expectations for what teams can achieve in a workday, and making it harder to get hired in the first place.
AI Companion Robots Are Closing the Human Connection in Modern Homes
This article is brought to you by Ollobot .
A New NASA Design Turbocharges Nuclear Spacecraft
Summary NASA and industry engineers propose a synchronal bimodal nuclear rocket (S‑BNR) to dramatically cut transit times to destinations around the solar system, such as Mars, by combining nuclear thermal and electric propulsion.
The First Battery Was Inspired By a Dead Frog
In a display case on the lower level of the Faraday Museum at the Royal Institution in London, there’s an unassuming stack of gray metal discs and blotting paper.
IEEE President’s Note: Technology for Social Good
Across IEEE, our strength lies not only in the excellence of our individual communities but also in our ability to bring them together around shared problems that demand interdisciplinary solutions.
The E.U.’s AI Drive Undermines Its Own Chip Strategy
This story was originally published by Tech Policy Press .
Noodling on Nuclear Engines
One day in 1982, Joseph “Rod” Canion and two colleagues from Texas Instruments sat down at the House of Pies in Houston and used a napkin to sketch out what would become Compaq’s portable PC.
This Teen Helped Native American Students Earn Ham Radio Licenses
For many high school students, summer vacation is a time to unplug.
Applying Different Forms of Mentorship
This article is crossposted from IEEE Spectrum ’s careers newsletter.
AI Efficiency Could Cost Us the Next Generation of Experts
A little over a decade ago, I led the controls design for a first-of-its-kind full digital-control system for a U.S.
Startups want to rent your idle gaming PC for AI tasks — Startups pitch an 'Airbnb for AI inference,' but profitability remains unproven
If, like mine, your gaming rig spends most of its life doing nothing these days, a pair of startups would be willing to pay you something close to minimum wage for its downtime.
Techie creates a database of coil-whining graphics cards, power supplies, and liquid cooler pumps — open-source project wants community reports of affected part
Most of us who build our own PCs have at some point experienced this: you install a new graphics card, fire up your favorite game that now runs faster, and you're greeted by this weird buzzing noise.
AI data center investment projected to hit $32 trillion by 2050 — infrastructure spending estimated to exceed capital requirements for railways, electrification
PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP (PwC) estimates that spending on AI data centers could reach as much as $31.6 trillion in the next decade and a half, with optimistic outlooks suggesting that capital expenditure could potentially hit $50 trillion.
This 32GB DDR5 RAM kit is now the cheapest on sale, dropping back under $400 — 13% discount on an unflashy PNY memory kit for new gaming PC builds or upgrades
The RAMpocalypse means that, unfortunately, memory has become one of the most expensive parts in a new gaming PC build or upgrade.
EFF asks California governor to veto bill that would require online age verification — Electronic Frontier Foundation argues bill would result in privacy-invasi
With social networks tracking every single motion of our scrolling fingers and now the advent of data-hoovering AI models, it's easy to argue that staying anonymous online has never been harder.
Questionable PC power supply 'explodes,' bursts into flames the moment it's plugged into a socket in viral video — video captures moment repair shop worker avoi
The power supply is the lifeblood of your PC, responsible for regulating power that goes into the entire system and, thus, determining how well it runs.
Researchers build a $7 smartphone clip-on that spots hidden cameras — AI and dynamic LED grid deliver 94% accuracy
Researchers from KAIST, formerly known as the Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology, who collaborated with the National University of Singapore (NUS) and Singapore Management University (SMU), have developed a clip-on LED light that works in tandem with an AI app to
Fractal Summit case review: real wood accents scream premium, but it only stands out in white or black
Fractal arguably kicked off the wood accent PC trend with the North line, and the company says its new Summit case is built for “...expressive, high-performance systems combining distinctive Scandinavian design and advanced cooling potential.” The chassis sports FSC-certified woo
$30 buys you a brand-new HyperX gaming headset — save 40% on the CloudX Stinger 2 with massive 50mm drivers
Fighting all the doom and gloom around the ever-increasing prices for our favorite gaming tech, it's nice to come across the occasional cheap deal that makes for a fantastic impulse purchase.
Russian hacker faces up to 20 years in prison, following extradition and indictment over US phishing campaign that allegedly infected 80,000 PCs — hacker stole
A federal grand jury in California has indicted Russian citizen Searzhudin Tamirlanovich Aktulaev for allegedly conducting phishing attacks that stole data from over 80,000 computers between June 2016 and November 2017, using TVRAT and DarkVNC remote-control malware.
FBI investigating 153 million US and Canadian driver’s licenses leaked on Russian cybercrime forum, including that of US SecDef Pete Hegseth — data is suspected
More than 153 million US and Canadian driver’s licenses, as well as other identity documents, have reportedly become available for purchase on the dark web for a limited time.
We explored early DLSS 5 performance with community mods — and the limits of the 12V-2x6 power connector may hold it back on the RTX 5090
It's been a wild few days for gamers, as a version of the DLSS 5 model leaked with NBA2K27 and promptly got modded into every game under the sun.
Tape companies ship 160 exabytes of storage in 2025, AI data demands drive 'unprecedented data growth' — capacity shipped in Q1 2026 rose 57% YOY driven by AI,
Tape storage companies continue to celebrate substantial growth.
Samsung teases new HBM5 with twice the performance of HBM4E —ambitious data transfer rates could hint at 4,096-bit interface
The goal of next-generation HBM5 memory specification is to double performance and increase power efficiency compared to HBM4E, Samsung announced at the 'Memory Executive Summit,' an event that precedes 'Semicon Taiwan 2026.' Considering that it is barely realistic to double the
The current state of Hybrid Bonding in 2026 — TSMC sits at 6 microns and the HBM delay that nobody expected
Hybrid bonding, the copper-to-copper joining technique that replaces solder microbumps in 3D chip stacks, is in high-volume production on logic chips and has just been postponed for use with memory.
Microsoft will expand Windows 11 Memory Integrity feature to more PCs starting in October — security feature reduces gaming performance on some systems
Microsoft will begin automatically enabling its Memory Integrity security feature on a broader range of eligible Windows PCs through quality updates starting in October 2026, extending the kernel-level protection to more existing devices by default.
GoPro to expand into AI data centers after $285 million merger with optical-photonics company — move to solve camera maker’s financial woes, move manufacturing
GoPro just announced a merger with Starman Optical, Inc., an optical-photonics company, saying that the deal would allow the combined entity to produce U.S.-made optical transceivers for use in AI data centers.
Bring a Product Manager Mindset to Your Next Engineering Job
If you haven’t already seen a job listing for a “product engineer,” you probably will soon.
Researchers easily trick Fortune-500 companies' AI agents into running arbitrary code — supply-chain attack via llms.txt guidance file illustrates how data has
Researchers have managed to execute code within an "llms.txt" file that many large companies use to instruct AI agents on how to scrape the website correctly.
Hot Chips 2026: Samsung reveals a three-phase HBM roadmap that puts logic and compute inside memory — zHBM ultimately stacks DRAM directly on top of the process
Samsung has unveiled a three-phase roadmap to progressively transform high-bandwidth memory (HBM) into an integrated memory-and-compute system, culminating in the company's zHBM architecture , which places the processor directly beneath the DRAM stack and eliminates the conventio
$899 gets you a fully fledged DDR5 gaming PC in Best Buy's Labor Day sales — save $300 off the iBuypower Slate PC powered by Intel's B570 graphics with 10GB of
Best Buy has stepped onto the stage with a huge selection of deals in its seasonal Labor Day sales, with decent price cuts on computers and tech.
Save $300 on this 240Hz OLED gaming laptop with an RTX 5070 Ti, now just $1,899 — Acer Predator Helios rig ships with a 24-core Intel CPU, 32GB DDR5 and a 1TB S
A great deal on an OLED gaming laptop could be yours, if you're quick.
Alienware 16X Aurora review: A thoroughly competent gaming laptop
Alienware’s 16X Aurora (starts at $1,979.99) isn’t just another spec-sheet powerhouse – it’s a statement in restraint.
Dell's new 14-inch laptops take on the MacBook Neo in a new way — ports and colors
Dell has been spending its year taking on the MacBook Neo and settling in as a staunch advocate of the mid-range laptop.
National telecoms provider could make $2.7 billion selling recycled copper in AI boom — BT to strip 200,000 tons from legacy network
BT, the UK’s largest telecommunications provider, is slowly upgrading its entire network to fiber, with the company looking to move residential endpoints away from copper, and it seems that it will make a killing when it recycles its old cables.
Nvidia's top-end RTX 5090 gaming GPU now costs at least $5,000 — Blackwell cards continue to endure drastic price hikes
It's hard to believe Nvidia first announced the RTX 5090 at last year's CES for just $1,999.
Nvidia pours $3.5 billion into MediaTek — company will adopt NVLink Fusion for its custom AI accelerators
Nvidia and MediaTek this week announced a major expansion of their partnership under which Nvidia is investing $3.5 billion in convertible bonds issued by MediaTek, while the latter adopts NVLink Fusion platform for its custom AI accelerators, local AI systems, and automotive pla
Alienware's new QD-OLED gaming monitors boast 4K 165 Hz, 1080p 560 Hz panels — Dell’s new OLEDs target gamers who prioritize speed or crave pixel density
While gamers are definitely feeling the pricing pinch when it comes to memory and storage, some segments of the consumer tech sector are seeing more favorable trends.
Oklahoma City tries to charge farmer arrested at data center debate $17,000 for body cam footage of the incident — accused faces trespassing charge for going ov
The Oklahoma Office of the Attorney General commanded the City of Claremore to release body cam footage requested by farmer Darren Blanchard and his legal team without charging them $17,125.44.
Developer uses Claude Code to debloat Android smart TV for 'unbelievable' performance upgrade — TV now smoother than it was new as autonomous agent deactivates
A developer has taken to social media to praise his revitalized smart TV, optimized to work better-than-new thanks to Claude Code.
Acer launches seven new gaming monitors across Nitro and Predator families — tri-mode panels, QD-OLEDs, Mini LEDs, 1,000 Hz, and more
IFA 2026 is upon us, and Acer has unleashed a whole onslaught of new products across various categories.
Russian Starlink rival flounders after entire batch of satellites fails to reach operational altitude — many of the 16 launched hit less than half their 870km t
The entire second batch of Russian Rassvet satellites have failed to reach their target operational altitudes, reports the U.S.-based Institute for the Study of War (ISW), citing data from live satellite tracker N2YO.
Acer's Swift Blade 14 weighs just 1.76 pounds and uses Wildcat Lake — company introduces new sub-brand ahead of IFA tradeshow
Following Acer's release of the budget-oriented Acer Swift Air 14, the company is now releasing more thin systems based on Intel's Wildcat Lake chips to build out its mid-level offerings.
China's EUV technology 'at a similar stage to ASML in 2004,' analyst claims — Beijing's semiconductor industry remains well behind Western rivals
China's ability to produce lithography tools is comparable to that of market leader ASML sometime in 2004, an analyst with UBS wrote in a note to clients.
Inside the Data Bottleneck Slowing Visual and Physical AI
A survey of over 700 professionals examines how visual and physical AI teams build systems, why models fail, and where data work drives production. Download this free whitepaper now!
Motorless solid-state cooler uses heat to cool itself; could recycle processor heat into cooling — shape-memory alloy films could turn data center exhaust into
A team of scientists in Germany and Japan has demonstrated a solid-state cooling system that uses heat to generate the mechanical work required for refrigeration, potentially opening a route to processors and data centers that recycle some of their own waste heat for cooling.
Trump says communities that reject data centers 'want to end up being backwards and poor' — President claims China 'could not be happier' with AI data center ba
Donald Trump doesn't appear to be a fan of the data center backlash that has swept the nation.
Kingston's NV3 1TB PCIe 4.0 SSD drops to $156.99 at Newegg — 27% off brings it down to just 15.7 cents per GB
With the ongoing AI boom triggering worldwide memory shortages, getting a good deal on RAM or storage has become increasingly difficult.
TP-Link announces its first consumer Wi-Fi 8 routers — Archer 8 Ultra preorder commences September 30, in select regions
Earlier this year, TP-Link announced its intentions to launch the first members of its Wi-Fi 8 (802.11bn) networking family .
Linux kernel nears record 2,000 vulnerabilities per release as AI bug hunters scour 40 million lines of code — maintainers say they are 'completely overwhelmed'
The Linux kernel is approaching a staggering 2,000 CVEs fixed per release, up from roughly 500 through much of the Linux 6.x era, as AI and large language models increasingly scour the operating system’s enormous codebase for vulnerabilities.
CXMT reportedly begins risk production of HBM3E memory in breakthrough for Chinese DRAM production — company could be in mass production in 2027
China's DRAM champion ChangXin Memory Technologies (CXMT) has started risk production of HBM3E memory, The Information reports.
Designing physics experiments with artificial intelligence
Nature, Published online: 02 September 2026; doi:10.1038/s41586-026-10898-6 Artificial intelligence in physics experimental design is explored on the basis of searching for optima over a vast space of hardware configurations and proposing entirely new experimental layouts, rather
Razer’s New $100 Game Controller Folds Right Up for Your Pocket
The gaming hardware company’s new game controller folds in half to make it easier to take with you.
2027 Mitsubishi Pajero Returns to Take on the Toyota Land Cruiser
The reborn off-road SUV is built on a ladder frame, seats seven, and rocks hardware designed for use off the beaten path.
Apple, OpenAI legal fight keeps escalating. Here's how we got here
Apple and OpenAI are escalating their legal fight over allegations that the ChatGPT maker used Apple employees to obtain closely guarded hardware secrets.
Sonos launches new ‘Ultra’ headphones and soundbar, plus more
Sonos has announced two new hardware products today—Ace headphones and a Beam soundbar with ‘Ultra’ branding—alongside rebranding its software as ‘Sonos 27.’ Here are the details. more…
Apple's new CEO, John Ternus, takes over from Tim Cook at a pivotal time for the company
Ternus faces challenges that will force him to step outside his comfort zone in hardware engineering.
Dell’s newest laptop sounds a lot like a MacBook Neo - The Verge
Dell’s newest laptop sounds a lot like a MacBook Neo The Verge Dell's new 14-inch laptops take on the MacBook Neo in a new way — ports and colors Tom's Hardware Dell Tries to Beat the MacBook Neo With Yet Another Cheap(ish) Laptop Gizmodo Dell Doubles Down on Cheap Student Laptop
The Sonos Ace Ultra headphones and Beam Ultra soundbar are smarter than I expected
Sonos' latest hardware is smarter than ever about how it fits into your home.
John Ternus takes over as Apple’s new CEO
The multitrillion-dollar home of the iPhone, Mac, and so many other tech gadgets has a new leaader, as Tim Cook has been replaced as CEO as of September 1st by former hardware boss John Ternus.