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GPU Renters Are Playing a Silicon Lottery
Think one GPU is very much like another? Think again. It turns out that there’s surprising variability in the performance…
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The Chip That Made Hardware Rewriteable
Many of the world’s most advanced electronic systems—including Internet routers, wireless base stations, medical imaging scanners, and some artificial intelligence…
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Engineering Collisions: How NYU Is Remaking Health Research
This sponsored article is brought to you by NYU Tandon School of Engineering. The traditional approach to academic research goes…
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The USC Professor Who Pioneered Socially Assistive Robotics
When the robotics engineering field that Maja Matarić wanted to work in didn’t exist, she helped create it. In 2005…
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What Anthropic’s Mythos Means for the Future of Cybersecurity
Two weeks ago, Anthropic announced that its new model, Claude Mythos Preview, can autonomously find and weaponize software vulnerabilities, turning…
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The Forgotten History of Hershey’s Electric Railway in Cuba
Why does a chocolatier build a railroad? For Milton S. Hershey, it was a logical response to a sugar shortage…
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Over-the-Air Computation Uses Radio Interference to Crunch Data
Picture a highway with networked autonomous cars driving along it. On a serene, cloudless day, these cars need only exchange…
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This Roboticist-Turned-Teacher Built a Life-Size Replica of ENIAC
Tom Burick has always considered himself a builder. Over the years he’s designed robots, constructed a vintage teardrop trailer, and…
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Video Friday: Digit Learns to Dance—Virtually Overnight
Video Friday is your weekly selection of awesome robotics videos, collected by your friends at IEEE Spectrum robotics. We also…
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Stealth Signals Are Bypassing Iran’s Internet Blackout
On 8 January 2026, the Iranian government imposed a near-total communications shutdown. It was the country’s first full information blackout:…
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