IEEE Life Senior Member H. Stan Thompson has lived a couple of professional lives. For decades, he was a planning engineer and futurist at Bellsouth Telecommunications, which was formed from the merger of two Regional Bell Operating Companies…
Category: Engineering
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Clever Technology Turns Lampposts into EV Charging Stations
For city denizens who’d love to buy an electric vehicle—but live in buildings with no driveway or garage—the lack of practical charging options remains a daunting barrier. For charging companies, pricey urban real estate and prohibitive…
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Trump’s Administration Will Impact AI, Energy, Crypto and More
U.S. presidential administrations tend to have big impacts on tech around the world. So it should be taken as a given that when Donald Trump returns to the White House in January, his second administration will do the same. Perhaps more than…
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Synthetic Skin Inspired by Electric Fish Detects Objects
The ability to detect a nearby presence without seeing or touching it may sound fantastical—but it’s a real ability that some creatures have.A family of African fish known as Mormyrids are weakly electric, and have special organs that can…
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Robotaxis Are Blazing the Trail for Self-Driving Cars
Editor’s note: A version of this article originally appeared in the author’s newsletter, Exponential View.
When people ask me to describe my work, I say I take a critical look at exponential technologies—which I define as technologies…
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Ferroelectric Transistors for Homomorphic Encryption
In an age where data is bought and sold as a commodity, true privacy is rare. But homomorphic encryption can protect your data completely, so no one, not even the servers used to process it, can read your information.
Here’s how it works: A…
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Ultra-wideband Wireless Signals Simplify EV Batteries
A new ultra-wideband wireless system that collects data from batteries could help boost the range of electric vehicles and simplify their development and assembly.
Electric vehicles collect a lot of data from their batteries, such as information…
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Noise-cancelling headsets use AI to make zones of silence
It’s an experience we’ve all had: Whether catching up with a friend over dinner at a restaurant, meeting an interesting person at a cocktail party, or conducting a meeting amid office commotion, we find ourselves having to shout over…
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AI-Enabled Dash Cams Give Wake-Up Calls to Drowsy Drivers
Increasingly, vehicles with advanced driver assistance systems are looking not only at the road but also at the driver. And for good reason. These systems can, paradoxically, make driving less safe as drivers engage in more risky behaviors behind…
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Researchers Develop VR Lollipop to Simulate Taste
Virtual- and augmented-reality setups already modify the way users see and hear the world around them. Add in haptic feedback for a sense of touch and a VR version of Smell-O-Vision, and only one major sense remains: taste.
To fill the gap,…
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