Safety issues and the physics of aeronautics mean the wait to ride speeder bikes that zip across the landscape while hovering a few meters above the ground, like Luke Skywalker did in the Star Wars films, isn't over. spectrum.ieee.org/hoverbike?shar…

The #UkraineRussiaWar has already made Ukraine the country with the worst land mine problem in the world. Finding all those explosives the traditional way (with handheld metal detectors) could take decades. But now there's a better way. spectrum.ieee.org/ukraine-drones…

It's not exactly open source, but Meta's new Llama 3 AI model is pretty close. And more importantly, it's experiencing a rapid ascendency in the AI world. spectrum.ieee.org/meta-llama-3?s…

Robocalls just won't go away. Perhaps nobody knows this better than David Frankel, who became obsessed with the problem after a contest run by the Federal Trade Commission 12 years ago and 'like a dog with a bone' just can't let the problem go. spectrum.ieee.org/how-to-stop-ro…

Indian startups Swaayatt Robots and Minus Zero say their country's unruly traffic forces innovative approaches to autonomy. spectrum.ieee.org/india-self-dri…

Meet the members shaping the future of #IEEE ! Get to know Sergio Benedetto, Jenifer Castillo, and Fred Schindler. spectrum.ieee.org/ieee-bod-april…

Telling an #LLM it's #CaptainKirk makes it do better math. So how much of #promptEngineering is actually engineering? Getting under the hood will be where the future lies. Prompt engineering, in its current incarnation, doesn't get under the hood. buff.ly/3Ir0VW0

Smart roads with advanced vehicle sensing capabilities could be the linchpin of future intelligent transportation systems and could even help extend driverless cars‘ perceptual range. A new approach can now track vehicles as far away as 500 meters. spectrum.ieee.org/smart-road-cam…

Line-of-sight signals are increasingly the requirement for the gigabit and terabit future of #wireless communications. But a new study has found a way to subtly curve signals to boost bandwidth and enable blazing fast bandwidths beyond 5G. spectrum.ieee.org/6g-network-cur…

Buoys at sea can be used to monitor both individual waves and the grander patterns of water movement in the global ocean—the only problem is they have to transmit their data to satellites, a costly and error-prone endeavor. Until now, that is. spectrum.ieee.org/ocean-buoy?sha…

In 2024, #quantumComputing continues to command attention of both researchers and governments around the world. And while some big players (e.g. Alibaba and Baidu) have cashed in their chips, the drive for new applications and use cases continues. spectrum.ieee.org/quantum-comput…

The Internet is still in its startup phase, says Bob Kahn, who with Vint Cerf solved the so-called 'internetworking' problem in 1973. That's why the 85-year-old IEEE Medal of Honor recipient still works more than five days a week. spectrum.ieee.org/bob-kahn-26677…

Robots learning their way in zero-G; the world's first robot-friendly building (hint: it's the elevators!); a climbing robot and a #quadruped that picks up after messy humans—all in this week's #VideoFriday spectrum.ieee.org/video-friday-s…

A material called #perovskite is proving itself a powerful medium for #PV #solar technologies. Now it's being tested as an #LED display tech that pulls double and triple duty as a touchscreen/fingerprint reader and—not surprisingly—PV power source. spectrum.ieee.org/led-display-pe…

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