Podcasts about IEEE Spectrum

Allison Marsh, an associate professor at the University of South Carolina and a historian of technology, authored an insightful article in IEEE Spectrum about the first-ever virtual meeting held in 1916 by IEEE's predecessor, AIEE. This pioneering event connected 5,100 engineers across multiple cities telephonically. In a discussion with David, together they explore the highlights of this groundbreaking transcontinental gathering. The historical significance of this event and its striking parallels to modern virtual meetings remain relevant today. In 2024, IEEE celebrated its 140th anniversary - and Allison underscores the present-day importance of incorporating social elements and creativity into virtual meetings to enhance engagement, much like our engineering forefathers did over a century ago - with musical interludes and splashy keynote speakers. To read Allison Marsh's article in IEEE Spectrum, visit https://spectrum.ieee.org/virtual-meeting

IEEE Spectrum reports on the return to physical buttons and dials, Microsoft released GenAIScript, iFixit's Elizabeth Chamberlain announces a big Right to Repair win, Daniela Baron reimagines technical interviews & John O'Nolan, shares some thoughts on open source governance and how to create trust within technology, communities, and media

IEEE Spectrum reports on the return to physical buttons and dials, Microsoft released GenAIScript, iFixit's Elizabeth Chamberlain announces a big Right to Repair win, Daniela Baron reimagines technical interviews & John O'Nolan, shares some thoughts on open source governance and how to create trust within technology, communities, and media

IEEE Spectrum reports on the return to physical buttons and dials, Microsoft released GenAIScript, iFixit's Elizabeth Chamberlain announces a big Right to Repair win, Daniela Baron reimagines technical interviews & John O'Nolan, shares some thoughts on open source governance and how to create trust within technology, communities, and media

Ini masih cerita soal semiconductor, VLSI, IC design. Topik ini saya ambil dari tulisan di IEEE Spectrum edisi Oktober 2024.

Jerod, Nick & Chris discuss a next-gen JavaScript bundler, Node getting even tighter with TypeScript, the top programming languages according to IEEE Spectrum, Chris' feelings on Node's built-in test runner & more!

Jerod, Nick & Chris discuss a next-gen JavaScript bundler, Node getting even tighter with TypeScript, the top programming languages according to IEEE Spectrum, Chris' feelings on Node's built-in test runner & more!

Herkese Merhabalar! Bu bölümümüzde "IEEE Spectrum" serisinin IEEE Türkiye Educational Activities sponsorluğunda İrem Nuransoy ve Melike Elaldı ile birlikte IEEE Spectrum Ağustos 2024 sayısını ele alıyoruz. Uzay ve Havacılık, Biyomedikal ve Yapay Zeka alanında seçtiğimiz haberleri birlikte ele alıyoruz. Bölümümüze 3D yazıcı tarafından üretilen ve başarıyla fırlatılan roketi değerlendirerek başlıyoruz. 3D teknolojisinin uzay ve havacılık alanındaki kullanım amaçlarını hep birlikte ele alıyoruz. Sonrasında biyoteknoloji alanında seçtiğimiz haberle devam ediyoruz. Şeker hastaları için üretilen ve Amerika Birleşik Devletleri Gıda ve Araştırma Dairesinden onay bekleyen teknolojiyi değerlendiriyoruz. Son olarak haklarını teknoloji sayesinde arayabilen ve çalıştıkları şirkete boyun eğmeyen çalışanların bu süreçte yapabildiklerini inceliyoruz. Keyifli dinlemeler! #ai #technology #roket #artificialintelligence #ieee #superconductivity #superconductor #transistor #algoritma #3D #insülin #security #software #haberleşme #uydu #fırlatma #science #semiconductor #fda

TapirCast'in "IEEE Spectrum" serisinin IEEE Türkiye Educational Activities sponsorluğunda gerçekleştirilen bu bölümünde, İrem Nuransoy ve Melike Elaldı ile birlikte IEEE Spectrum Temmuz 2024 sayısını ele alıyoruz. Bölümümüze sayımızda geçen editörün notu ile başlıyor ve devrelere entegre edilen transistör sayısının artmasıyla birlikte gelişen teknolojiyi ele alarak başlıyoruz. Devamında yapay zekanın sağlık ve psikoloji alanındaki etkilerini ve yapılan çalışmaları değerlendiriyoruz. Ardından kullanım ömrünü tamamlamış olan güneş panellerini geri dönüşümünün nasıl yapıldığını değerlendiriyoruz. Son olarak gelişen MRI (Magnetic Resonance Imaging) teknolojisini ve işaret işleme ile kuşların türlerini nasıl tespit edebileceğimizi ele alıyoruz. Keyifli seyirler!

TapirCast'in "IEEE Spectrum" serisinin IEEE Türkiye Educational Activities sponsorluğunda gerçekleştirilen bu bölümünde, İrem Nuransoy, Melike Elaldı ve Melisa Karaoğlu ile birlikte IEEE Spectrum Haziran 2024 sayısını ele alıyoruz. Bölümümüze, tüketimin artmasıyla yenilenebilir enerji kaynaklarına yönelimimizin artması ve güneş panelleri hakkında konuşarak başlıyoruz. Ardından süperiletkenler ve süperiletkenlerin kullanımı sırasında gereken enerjiye değiniyoruz. Devamında, yapay zekanın sağlık ve insan psikolojisi alanlarında kullanılması konularını değerlendiriyoruz. Keyifli seyirler! #ai #renewableenergy #solarpanel #sunenergy #current #technology #ieee #artificialintelligence #renewableenergy #energy #superconductivity #superconductor

Founder and CEO of Exeger, Giovanni Fili, talks with IEEE Spectrum editor Stephen Cass about Exeger's Powerfoyle flexible dye-based solar cells for consumer electronics, which can recharge devices even in indoor light, and how Exeger convinced major companies to incorporate its tech into their products.

Événements Séminaire Innovacs du 11 mars à GrenobleReplay. Inauguration Quandela chez OVHcloud à Croix le 18 marsIl s'agissait de l'inauguration officielle de l'installation de l'ordinateur quantique de Quandela dans un datacenter chez OVHcloud.Voir Certified randomness in tight space by Andreas Fyrillas, Boris Bourdoncle, Aristide Lemaître, Isabelle Sagnes, Niccolo Somaschi, Nadia Belabas, Shane Mansfield et al, Quandela, C2N and University of Bristol, January 2023 (23 pages). Quantum Enabling Technologies Workshop à Télécom Paris le 21 marsslides Décode quantum Jay GambettaNous avons publié le podcast enregistré à Yorktown Heights avec Jay Gambetta, le VP d'IBM en charge du quantique. L'audio et le transcript sont disponibles. A venir : 5 avril : conférence sur les atomes neutres au Collège de France le 5 avril https://pro.college-de-france.fr/jean.dalibard/CdF/2024/colloque.pdf 14 avril : Journée internationale du quantique le 14 avril. 30 avril : après-midi organisée par PCQT, l'écosystème quantique de Paris, à Jussieu.Inscriptions.21 mai : France Quantum, à Station F. Inscriptions ouvertes. Actualités en France Pasqal annonçait sa nouvelle roadmap qui intègre notamment pour la première fois officiellement le modèle « gate based ». Voir PASQAL Announces New Roadmap Focused on Business Utility And Scaling Beyond 1,000 Qubits Towards Fault Tolerance Era by Matt Swayne, The Quantum Insider, March 2024. Voici la vidéo de l'annonce. Alice&BobIls annonçaient un partenariat avec Nvidia. Alice & Bob to Integrate Cat Qubits in Datacenters, Accelerated by NVIDIA Technology, March 2024. La startup annonçait aussi la validation du projet « Usine à chats » par le Premier Ministre avec 14.5M€ d'aide de Bpifrance dans le cadre d'un projet i-Démo. ViqthorLa startup spécialisée dans la connectique et le contrôle de qubits annonçait une levée de fonds en seed  Annonce d'un avantage quantique par D-WaveComputational supremacy in quantum simulation by Andrew D. King et al, D-Wave, arXiv, March 2024 (55 pages). 6100 atomes froids contrôlés chez CaltechA tweezer array with 6100 highly coherent atomic qubits by Hannah J. Manetsch, Gyohei Nomura, Elie Bataille, Kon H. Leung, Xudong Lv, and Manuel Endres, Caltech, arXiv, March 2024 (21 pages). IBMIBM annonçait la fin prochaine mi-mai 2024 de de l'accès à leur émulateur en ligne Qiskit.Annonce de la Commission EuropéenneL'Union Européenne lançait le « pacte quantique » qui vise à garantir la compétitivité de l'Europe dans le domaine. Nvidia faisait pas mal d'annonces en mars autour des émulateurs quantiques lors de leur conférence GTC aux USA. https://nvidianews.nvidia.com/news/nvidia-launches-cloud-quantum-computer-simulation-microservicesNVIDIA Amplifies Quantum Computing Ecosystem with New CUDA-Q Integrations and Partnerships at GTC, HPCwire, March 2024.NVIDIA Launches Cloud Quantum-Computer Simulation Microservices, HPCwire, March 2024.NVIDIA Powers Japan's ABCI-Q Supercomputer for Quantum Research, HPCwire, March 2024. Ils y lançaient aussi leur nouveau GPU de compétition, le Blackwell 200 ou B200. 208 milliards de transistors en 4 nm, étalés sur 2 puces.Nvidia Unveils Blackwell, Its Next GPU by Samuel K. Moore, IEEE Spectrum, March 2024. CerebrasIls annonçaient de leur côté un processeur avec 4 trillions de transistors, le CS-3, qui succède au CS-2 qui faisait 2.6 trillions de transistors. Il est adapté aux grands LLMs. QuokkaCette startup australienne lançait un émulateur supportant 30 qubits sous forme d'un « appliance » avec un processeur quadcore de smartphone et 4 Go de RAM.C'est un projet lancé sur Kickstarter. A BullshitHere Are 6 Actual Uses for Near-Term Quantum Computers by Michael Nolan, IEEE Spectrum, March 2024.  

Dr. Karu Sankaralingam is a Professor at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, an entrepeneur, inventor, as well as a Principal Research Scientist at NVIDIA.  His work has been featured in industry forums of Mentor and Synopsys, and has been covered by the New York Times, Wired, and IEEE Spectrum. He founded the hardware startup SimpleMachines in 2017 which developed chip designs applying dataflow computing to push the limits of AI generality in hardware and built the Mozart chip. In his career, he has led three chip projects: Mozart (16nm, HBM2 based design), MIAOW open source GPU on FPGA, and the TRIPS chip as a student during his PhD. In his research he has pioneered the principles of dataflow computing, focusing on the role of architecture, microarchitecture and the compiler. He has published over 100 research papers, has graduated 9 PhD students, is an inventor on 21 patents, and 9 award papers. He is a Fellow of IEEE.

IEEE Spectrum's semiconductor expert, Samuel K. Moore, talks with Stephen Cass about his visit to one of the key conferences in emerging integrated circuit technology, ISSCC. We talk about Meta's new 3D chip-stacking tech for faster AR, faster AI through in-memory computation, and security technology that can cause a chip to self-destruct if anyone tries to hack it.

Am 01. Dezember 1948 wird ein toter Mann am Somerton Beach in Adelaide, Australien gefunden. Was zunächst aussieht, wie ein tragischer, aber gewöhnlicher Todesfall, nimmt jedoch bald bizarre Formen an: niemand kennt den Toten. Der Mann ist sehr gepflegt und äußerlich völlig unversehrt, doch bei ihm lässt sich keine einzige Form der Identifizierung finden. Er besitzt kein Portemonnaie, keinen Ausweis und selbst von seiner Kleidung sind die Etikette entfernt. Zunächst ist nur die lokale Polizei verwundert, doch als ein versteckter Zettel auftaucht, fragt sich bald ganz Australien: Wer war der Somerton Man?Das Folgenbild zeigt ein Foto der Leiche bei der Einbalsamierung........WERBUNGDu willst dir die Rabatte unserer Werbepartner sichern? Hier geht's zu den Angeboten!.......QUIZHier gehts zum Quiz mit Gewinnspiel! Quiz2Go#9 - Geschichtsquiz zum Mitraten.......NEU!Jetzt His2Go unterstützen für tolle Vorteile, über Acast+ oder Steady.Werde His2Go Hero oder His2Go Legend: https://plus.acast.com/s/his2go-geschichte-podcast.Werde auch ohne Kreditkarte His2Go Hero oder His2Go Legend: steadyhq.com/his2go.........LITERATURHier gibt es einen Artikel samt Fotos des "echten" Somerton Man.Abbott, Dereck: Finding Somerton Man: How DNA, AI Facial Reconstruction, and Sheer Grit Cracked a 75-Year-Old Cold Case, in: IEEE Spectrum 60/4 (2023), 22-30. Balint, Ruth: The Somerton Man. An Unsolved Mystery, in: Cultural Studies Review 16/2 (2010), 159-178.Dean, Peter & Moss, Tristan (Hrsg.): Fighting Australia's Cold War. The Nexus of Strategy and Operations in a Multipolar Asia, 1945–1965, Canberra 2021..........UNTERSTÜTZUNGIhr könnt uns dabei unterstützen, weiterhin jeden 10., 20. und 30. des Monats eine Folge zu veröffentlichen!Folgt und bewertet uns bei Spotify, Google Podcasts, Apple Podcasts, Podimo, Instagram, Twitter oder über eure Lieblings-Podcastplattformen.Wir freuen uns über euer Feedback, Input und Vorschläge zum Podcast, die ihr uns über das Kontaktformular auf der Website, Instagram und unsere Feedback E-Mail: kontakt@his2go.de schicken könnt. An dieser Stelle nochmals vielen Dank an jede einzelne Rückmeldung, die uns bisher erreicht hat und uns sehr motiviert..........COPYRIGHTMusic from https://filmmusic.io: “Sneaky Snitch” by Kevin MacLeod and "Plain Loafer" by Kevin MacLeod (https://incompetech.com) License: CC BY !Neu! Jetzt hier His2Go unterstützen, Themen mitbestimmen und Quiz2Go mit Moderatorin Chiara erleben! https://plus.acast.com/s/his2go-geschichte-podcast. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

In this March roundup, IEEE Spectrum's editor-in-chief Harry Goldstein and senior editor Stephen Cass talk about some of the highlights of Spectrum's recent coverage, including a plea for programmers to stop producing bloated programs, a new transistor that could help make how we handle electrical power smarter, and the potential return of optical discs as a high-density date storage medium. 

The discourse has once again turned to a feverish discussion of cognitive decline. Which 2024 US Presidential candidate has it worse? What does that mean for the campaign and for the Presidency in general?In this episode of The Studies Show, your rapidly-ageing hosts look at some of the research on cognitive ageing and cognitive decline. What happens when you give cognitive tests to people of different ages? Do those tests actually matter? They then ask whether there's a chance that the received wisdom about cognitive ageing is wrong, and that maybe they can hold onto their precious faculties for just a little longer…We're proud to be sponsored by Works in Progress magazine. If you've ever been interested in the process of science, the history of technology, and how to use policy to speed up human progress, then WiP is the magazine for you. Their new February 2024 issue is out now.Show notes* Example of a recent article on Joe Biden's cognitive decline; example of the same for Donald Trump* The above is Figure 1 from this 2019 review on cognitive ageing. The three panels show: levels of fluid reasoning ability at different ages; levels of crystallised knowledge at different ages; the prevalence rate of dementia in different age ranges* Yes, the Woodcock-Johnson Tests exist* 2016 study showing similar patterns of cognitive ageing in Tsimane forager-farmers in the Bolivian Amazon* 2012 review on cognitive ageing; see Figure 1 for the “Fortune 500 CEO” graph described in the podcast* Study on how IQ-type tasks and more practical tasks change together in old age* Study on cognitive ageing and susceptibility to scams* Tom's IEEE Spectrum article on how robots learn* Older (2004) article on cognitive ageing; Figure 1 is a useful comparion between cross-sectional and longitudinal studies* Book chapter with a useful discussion on when cognitive ageing begins* 2022 Nature article on “brain charts for the human lifespan”* Systematic review from 2010 on interventions for cognitive decline* 2019 meta-analysis of “real-world” intervention studies* Remarkably biased US politics interview about Biden and Trump and their respective mental capacitiesCreditsThe Studies Show is produced by Julian Mayers at Yada Yada Productions. This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit www.thestudiesshowpod.com/subscribe

The Air Force Research Laboratory (AFRL) recently released the open-source ARES_OS, a key software component of their Autonomous Research System. ARES_OS allows relatively simple robots to perform experiments, and develop new experiments based on the results. The AFRL's Benji Maruyama talks with IEEE Spectrum associate editor Dina Genkina about how he hopes the system becomes not just an invaluable helper for grad students, but opens up research to many more people outside traditional labs and enables progress in tackling hard problems like climate change. 

Ship It is back! IEEE Spectrum writes about quantum computing's reality check, Maxim Dounin announces freenginx, Nadia Asparouhova goes deep on AI & the “effective accelerationism” movement, Angie Byron helps first time open source contributors avoid common pitfalls & Miroslav Nikolov writes up his advice for high-risk refactoring.

Ship It is back! IEEE Spectrum writes about quantum computing's reality check, Maxim Dounin announces freenginx, Nadia Asparouhova goes deep on AI & the “effective accelerationism” movement, Angie Byron helps first time open source contributors avoid common pitfalls & Miroslav Nikolov writes up his advice for high-risk refactoring.

Ship It is back! IEEE Spectrum writes about quantum computing's reality check, Maxim Dounin announces freenginx, Nadia Asparouhova goes deep on AI & the “effective accelerationism” movement, Angie Byron helps first time open source contributors avoid common pitfalls & Miroslav Nikolov writes up his advice for high-risk refactoring.

We do a rundown of the top four launch bugs on Samsung's S24 smartphone. Plus the IEEE Spectrum has a report on how piezoelectric transducers can use a phone's screen for both haptic feedback and a speaker. And Funimation announces that subscriber's digital copies of shows and movies will go away after April 2nd.Starring Tom Merritt, Shannon Morse, Roger Chang, Joe.Link to the Show Notes. Become a member at https://plus.acast.com/s/dtns. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

We do a rundown of the top four launch bugs on Samsung's S24 smartphone. Plus the IEEE Spectrum has a report on how piezoelectric transducers can use a phone's screen for both haptic feedback and a speaker. And Funimation announces that subscriber's digital copies of shows and movies will go away after April 2nd. Starring Tom Merritt, Shannon Morse, Roger Chang, Joe To read the show notes in a separate page click here! Support the show on Patreon by becoming a supporter!

On today's show, Jeffrey Funk delves into a discussion about AI. GUEST 1 OVERVIEW: Joe Hoft is an author and a contributor at The Gateway Pundit alongside his twin brother, Jim Hoft, the founder. Joe previously served as an international corporate executive in Hong Kong for a Fortune 500 company for nearly a decade. He has presented at corporate board and audit committees in numerous countries worldwide, overseeing the financial reporting on multi-million and billion-dollar global entities. Joe has authored five books, including his most recent work, "The Steal—Volume II: The Impossible Occurs," which focuses on the 2020 Election. He is a regular guest on news shows across various media outlets and has conducted interviews with prominent conservatives, including President Trump. Joe hosts "The Joe Hoft Show" on TNT. You can find more about him at https://tntradio.live/shows/the-joe-hoft-show/. GUEST 2 OVERVIEW: Dr. Jeff Funk has dedicated his 46-year career to studying how new technologies emerge and diffuse. He served as a professor and consultant, with a notable track record of foreseeing the potential of technologies. During the late 1990s and early 2000s in Japan, he recognized the potential of smartphones and worked with Western companies to implement phones and services while he was a professor at Kobe and Hitotsubashi Universities. As early as 2004, he recommended to mobile service providers that they should focus on apps, well before the iPhone was released in 2007. His research in this area earned him the NTT DoCoMo mobile science award in 2004. Dr. Funk remains an influential figure in the world of startups and emerging technologies today through his writing, speaking engagements, consulting, and LinkedIn posts. He has been a keynote speaker at events such as the BrainBar, George Gilder's COSM, Bank to the Future, and WoW AI, among others. Dr. Funk has also contributed extensively to publications like Issues in Science & Technology, Scientific American, IEEE Spectrum, Slate, Fast Company, American Affairs, Market Watch, MindMatters, Salon, and the Yuan. You can learn more about his work on his Muckrack profile: https://muckrack.com/jeffrey-funk-1/portfolio.  

We've all seen impressive demos of prototype brain implants being used by paralyzed patients to interface with computers, but none of those implants have entered general clinical use. Biomedical device company Synchron is close to actually coming to market with its stentrode technology, promising less spectacular results than some of its competitors, but making up for that with ease of use and implant longevity. Synchron's co-founder Tom Oxley talks with IEEE Spectrum senior editor Eliza Strickland about the new tech, and you can read more in our January issue article by Emily Waltz.

The EU Sustronics program aims to make creating, maintaining, and recycling electronics more sustainable. Liisa Hakola is a senior scientist and project manager at the VTT Technical Research Center in Finland. She talks with IEEE Spectrum senior editor Stephen Cass about VTT's role in the EU's program, helping manufacturers to develop flexible, printed—and even compostable—electronics. 

Security researchers Bruce Schneier and Barath Raghavan believe it's time to stop trusting our data to the cloud, where it can be exposed by greed, accident, or crime. In the December issue of IEEE Spectrum, they proposed a plan for "data decoupling" that would protect our data without sacrificing ease of use, and in this episode Raghavan talks through the highlights of the plan with Spectrum editor Stephen Cass.

Co-CEO's of Silmach, Pierre-Francois Louvigne and Jean-Baptiste Carnet, talk about their new MEMS technology with IEEE Spectrum editor Glenn Zorpette. The tech has been used to create the first major upgrade to the movement of quartz watches in decades, a power efficient motor that is 50 percent smaller, allows fluid forward-and-back motion of the hand, and requires so little power a watch can run for over a decade before it needs a new battery. Louvigne talk about their new hybrid watch, which combine smartwatch electronics with analog faces, and partnerships with manufacturers such as Timex.

Alan Clark of SUSE talks with IEEE Spectrum editor Stephen Cass about the disruption in the enterprise Linux community caused by recent announcements by Red Hat over open source access to its codebase, and the formation of the Open Enterprise Linux Alliance (Open ELA) by SUSE, Oracle and CIQ in response.

Justine Bateman is an author and filmmaker. She also holds a degree in computer science from UCLA and is the AI advisor to SAG-AFTRA, the actors' union currently striking against movie and television studios. In this episode, Bateman talks with IEEE Spectrum senior editor Stephen Cass about actors' demands for control and compensation over digital avatars created in their likeness, and the destructive potential of generative AI in Hollywood.

Wendy H. Wong is a professor of political science at the University of British Columbia, and author of the just released book, We, The Data: Human Rights in the Digital Age. An excerpt from the book regarding the emerging prospect of digitally reanimating the departed is available on IEEE Spectrum's website. In this episode of Fixing The Future, Wong talks with senior editor Eliza Strickland about how the increasing datification of our lives could make this prospect possible—with or without our consent. 

IEEE Spectrum's resident semiconductor expert Samuel K. Moore talks with host Stephen Cass about ASML's enormous machine that's at the heart of chip manufacturing and explain the latest tricks with extreme ultraviolet that will keep Moore's Law going. In addition, new technologies from Edwards and Nvidia should make manufacturing chips greener and faster respectively. 

Reducing our global carbon footprint by switching to electric vehicles means we need a lot more batteries. And that means we need a lot more copper, nickel, cobalt, and lithium to make those batteries. Josh Goldman of KoBold Metals talks to senior editor Eliza Strickland about using AI to decipher geological formations and find new deposits of these minerals, and you can read more in his recent feature for IEEE Spectrum.    

IEEE Spectrum's Stephen Cass talks with Arun Gupta, vice president and general manager of Open Ecosystem Initiatives at Intel and chair of the Cloud Native Computing Foundation, about Intel's contributions to open source software projects and efforts to make open source greener and more secure.

Around the world, legislators are grappling with generative AI's potential for both innovation and destruction. Russell Wald is the Director of Policy for Stanford's Institute for Human-Centered Artificial Intelligence. In this episode, he talks with IEEE Spectrum senior editor Eliza Strickland about creating humane regulations that are able to cope with a rapidly evolving technology.

Scott Shapiro is the author of Fancy Bear Goes Phishing: The Dark History of the Information Age in Five Extraordinary Hacks. You can read an excerpt of Fancy Bear at IEEE Spectrum, but in today's episode of Fixing the Future, Shapiro talks with Spectrum editor David Schneider about why cybersecurity can't be fixed with purely technical solutions, why the threat of cyberwarfare tends to be exaggerated, and why cyberespionage will always be with us.

Sally Adee's new book, We Are Electric: The New Science of Our Body's Electrome, exams the centuries-long quest to understand how the body uses electricity. Beyond just how neurons send electrical signals, new research is showing how ancient biological mechanisms use electricity to heal our bodies and dictate how cells behave. Adee, a former editor at IEEE Spectrum, talks with host Stephen Cass about this research and how it may even open the door to regenerative technologies that are currently science fiction.

Samuel K. Moore, IEEE Spectrum's senior editor and semiconductor beat reporter, talks about the competing technologies that hope to dramatically speed up computing, especially for machine learning. 

Robert Charette, engineer, consultant, and contributing editor at IEEE Spectrum magazine, talks about his twelve-part series, “The Electric Vehicle Transition Explained,” with Peoples & Things host, Lee Vinsel. The series takes a systems perspective on electric vehicles, and talks about all of the potential barriers – from a lack of minerals, to stressing out the electricity grid, to being short on consumers or workers – that face EVs, which are too often cast as a climate change cure-all. Charette and Vinsel also talk about the kinds of thinking that are necessary if we are to have realistic policies around EVs. Lee Vinsel is an associate professor in the Department of Science, Technology and Society at Virginia Tech. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Support our show by becoming a premium member! https://newbooksnetwork.supportingcast.fm/new-books-network

Robert Charette, engineer, consultant, and contributing editor at IEEE Spectrum magazine, talks about his twelve-part series, “The Electric Vehicle Transition Explained,” with Peoples & Things host, Lee Vinsel. The series takes a systems perspective on electric vehicles, and talks about all of the potential barriers – from a lack of minerals, to stressing out the electricity grid, to being short on consumers or workers – that face EVs, which are too often cast as a climate change cure-all. Charette and Vinsel also talk about the kinds of thinking that are necessary if we are to have realistic policies around EVs. Lee Vinsel is an associate professor in the Department of Science, Technology and Society at Virginia Tech. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Support our show by becoming a premium member! https://newbooksnetwork.supportingcast.fm/environmental-studies

Robert Charette, engineer, consultant, and contributing editor at IEEE Spectrum magazine, talks about his twelve-part series, “The Electric Vehicle Transition Explained,” with Peoples & Things host, Lee Vinsel. The series takes a systems perspective on electric vehicles, and talks about all of the potential barriers – from a lack of minerals, to stressing out the electricity grid, to being short on consumers or workers – that face EVs, which are too often cast as a climate change cure-all. Charette and Vinsel also talk about the kinds of thinking that are necessary if we are to have realistic policies around EVs. Lee Vinsel is an associate professor in the Department of Science, Technology and Society at Virginia Tech. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Support our show by becoming a premium member! https://newbooksnetwork.supportingcast.fm/science

Mark Harris shares the tale of folks with retinal implants who received notice that their bionic eyes are nearing obsolescence. Open AI researchers Prafulla Dhariwal and Aditya Ramesh talk about DALL•E 2. Denise Howell talks about the tech and legal implications following the reversal of Roe v. Wade. Jaipreet Virdi's conversation about the unintended consequences of over-the-counter hearing aids being more easily available. Mikah's "chat" with ChatGPT. Hosts: Jason Howell and Mikah Sargent Guests: Mark Harris, Prafulla Dhariwal, Aditya Ramesh, Denise Howell, and Jaipreet Virdi Download or subscribe to this show at https://twit.tv/shows/tech-news-weekly. Get episodes ad-free with Club TWiT at https://twit.tv/clubtwit

Mark Harris shares the tale of folks with retinal implants who received notice that their bionic eyes are nearing obsolescence. Open AI researchers Prafulla Dhariwal and Aditya Ramesh talk about DALL•E 2. Denise Howell talks about the tech and legal implications following the reversal of Roe v. Wade. Jaipreet Virdi's conversation about the unintended consequences of over-the-counter hearing aids being more easily available. Mikah's "chat" with ChatGPT. Hosts: Jason Howell and Mikah Sargent Guests: Mark Harris, Prafulla Dhariwal, Aditya Ramesh, Denise Howell, and Jaipreet Virdi Download or subscribe to this show at https://twit.tv/shows/tech-news-weekly. Get episodes ad-free with Club TWiT at https://twit.tv/clubtwit

Mark Harris shares the tale of folks with retinal implants who received notice that their bionic eyes are nearing obsolescence. Open AI researchers Prafulla Dhariwal and Aditya Ramesh talk about DALL•E 2. Denise Howell talks about the tech and legal implications following the reversal of Roe v. Wade. Jaipreet Virdi's conversation about the unintended consequences of over-the-counter hearing aids being more easily available. Mikah's "chat" with ChatGPT. Hosts: Jason Howell and Mikah Sargent Guests: Mark Harris, Prafulla Dhariwal, Aditya Ramesh, Denise Howell, and Jaipreet Virdi Download or subscribe to this show at https://twit.tv/shows/tech-news-weekly. Get episodes ad-free with Club TWiT at https://twit.tv/clubtwit

Mark Harris shares the tale of folks with retinal implants who received notice that their bionic eyes are nearing obsolescence. Open AI researchers Prafulla Dhariwal and Aditya Ramesh talk about DALL•E 2. Denise Howell talks about the tech and legal implications following the reversal of Roe v. Wade. Jaipreet Virdi's conversation about the unintended consequences of over-the-counter hearing aids being more easily available. Mikah's "chat" with ChatGPT. Hosts: Jason Howell and Mikah Sargent Guests: Mark Harris, Prafulla Dhariwal, Aditya Ramesh, Denise Howell, and Jaipreet Virdi Download or subscribe to this show at https://twit.tv/shows/tech-news-weekly. Get episodes ad-free with Club TWiT at https://twit.tv/clubtwit

Mark Harris shares the tale of folks with retinal implants who received notice that their bionic eyes are nearing obsolescence. Open AI researchers Prafulla Dhariwal and Aditya Ramesh talk about DALL•E 2. Denise Howell talks about the tech and legal implications following the reversal of Roe v. Wade. Jaipreet Virdi's conversation about the unintended consequences of over-the-counter hearing aids being more easily available. Mikah's "chat" with ChatGPT. Hosts: Jason Howell and Mikah Sargent Guests: Mark Harris, Prafulla Dhariwal, Aditya Ramesh, Denise Howell, and Jaipreet Virdi Download or subscribe to this show at https://twit.tv/shows/tech-news-weekly. Get episodes ad-free with Club TWiT at https://twit.tv/clubtwit

Short opinion piece about these helium airships and the need to preserve helium. I think they're cool. But there's a real problem with trying to make a lot of hydrogen next to actual humans and somehow imagine that it's going to be safe. So since then, people have played around with things like blimps and things that don't have passengers and stuff like that. But these things don't, aren't very popular. I have seen a little bit of news lately about this group called Lighter Than Air Research, which is trying to create air ships today. These are in part probably safer because they don't fill them with hydrogen, they fill them with helium. So this is a massive craft. They call Pathfinder one. I'm going to link to an article in IEEE Spectrum about this and I'm just going to give you, the highlights. Pathfinder 1 is 120 meters, long, 20 meters in diameter. I think biggest Goodyear blimp right now is 75 meters. So this is like the biggest air ship ever made. I think. The idea is to carry about four tons of cargo. It sounds like a lot, but if you're not familiar with a ton, four tons is about one Humvee. Or, maybe four tons might be a good size Amazon delivery van fully loaded. That's four tons of cargo. There's still, also a crew, there's what's called water ballast, which is, water you carry for weight. So if you have a problem, descending too fast, you could drop the water and it would slow your descent to make it safe. And then fuel, cause you still need fuel in order to propel the thing. The idea is this thing would go 65 knots. So that's about 120 kilometers an hour, which I think about 70 miles an hour. That's about as fast as these things seem to ever really be able to go, but the, average cruising speed probably maxes out at more like two-thirds of that. This is a modern Airship probably worth revisiting it to see if it can be done better. The old ones were built with, a lot of wood. They were built with a lot of aluminum which is, good strength to weight ratio, but incendiary. In the sense that it melts at a low temperature. Modern crafts could be built with carbon fiber and titanium and all these modern materials that we can coat to make them less inflammatory, So that's the frame and then you also have this covering and the coverings gonna be made of not cotton the way we used to do it, but we're going to make that out of some modern polyvinyl from DuPont called Tedlar. So obviously those materials have advanced a lot in our lifetime. If you sense a little bit of a dubiousness in my voice, I'm going to tell you why that is in a little bit here. That's the basic idea. There's also a lot that's advanced in weather prediction. There's a lot that's advanced in electric motors for propulsion. There's a lot that's advanced in autonomous flying and driving. And so we have lidars and we have things that can figure out how to make these things dramatically safer. I buy all that. Here's what bothers me. The world has unlimited hydrogen on earth, more or less. We have a lot. We can make more. Hydrogen's awesome. What the world does not have on earth is very much helium. We have very little helium. We have very little helium left. We've been able to find a few new helium mines in the last decade, but there's just not much of it. And that is a super valuable element that we really need for lots of different things. We need it for making computer chips. We need it for figuring out how to make fusion reactors and things like that. We're just running out of helium and I'm pretty disappointed in any plan that involves using a lot of helium as it's lighter than air substance. Because of that, I'm really having a hard time getting excited about these modern airships that want to use helium. Helium is not flammable, so it won't burn up the way that hydrogen does. If you remember your periodic table, if you look at the very beginning, the reason you've probably heard of hydrogen and helium is they're numbers one and two. They are the lowest weight elements in the world. And hydrogen is a lot lighter than helium, but it also, combined with oxygen just fucking blows up, which is great, amazing amount of energy in hydrogen. We have a lot of use for that. But what's happening with helium is, we're just letting it go. We're giving it away in party balloons which is a terrible disaster. It makes me practically cry when I see helium balloons, which is sad. I grew up with them. I love them. I want my kid to have them. They're fun, but that's a waste of good helium. We just don't have enough and we don't have a way of making more. And that's the really important thing to understand. Until we get real good control of fusion reactors, and have extra ones to deploy at the job, we don't even have any way of making helium. When you do have a fusion reactor, it makes a little bit of helium, but not much. Maybe someday fusion reactors will be able to be designed to put out a lot of helium for balloons, but right now they don't. They don't do anything right now, but they don't do that. So the point is. We should be really careful about how we deplete the helium that we do have here on earth. Maybe someday we'll get a highway to the moon and we'll be able to go get a lot more helium. But right now this is this is a really important resource that I think we should be careful about. I don't want to see it used on airships, which require a lot. Okay. Second thing. I tried playing with helium before, and we do use a lot of helium for weather balloons and things like that. Please use hydrogen. It's okay if a weather balloon burns. A helium balloon that's big, it's just a really hard to manage. Putting a lot of lighter than air gas into a balloon to get it off the ground and float it up into the atmosphere. It's just unwieldy. I only have a little bit of experience with this early days at Blue Origin, we tried to make some giant helium balloons just to see what potential might be in that. It's hard cause, you gotta make the balloon out of something light and not too structural. The airships have a frame. We didn't have frames. We just had big balloons that we made. We made them really light. But, you've got to bring tanks and tanks of helium to go, then fill that up to launch it wherever you are. The process of filling it up, it wants to float away while you're filling it, and you think you could just keep loading gas into it the way that you would with a party balloon, but in practice, the more you load into it, the harder it is to tether the thing and keep the wind from blowing it away. And maybe you could do that indoors and then have a ceiling the launches, it's pretty impractical to do. And, with travel, you want to be able to go a lot of different places, obviously with an Airship, you'd try to fill it once and then use your electric motors to move that thing around, up and down and maybe. I give up as little helium as possible, but that's the other thing about helium. It's really hard to contain. It leaks through almost everything. It is a very small molecule. I'm putting this out there just to let you guys know how I feel about it. From what I understand to date. I have not met or talked to the folks that are working on this at Lighter Than Air Research. If you know them, please introduce me and I'm sure that they can tell me how they think about it. I'm sure they have some other perspective and if I get that in my head, I'll let you know if I change my mind.

Britt S. Young talks with IEEE Spectrum senior editor Stephen Cass about her investigation into high-tech prosthetic hand design: "We are caught in a bionic-hand arms race. But are we making real progress? It's time to ask who prostheses are really for, and what we hope they will actually accomplish. Each new multigrasping bionic hand tends to be more sophisticated but also more expensive than the last and less likely to be covered (even in part) by insurance. And as recent research concludes, much simpler and far less expensive prosthetic devices can perform many tasks equally well."

When writer Britt Young, who was born without most of her left forearm, got an expensive, high tech myoelectric prosthetic four years ago she was so excited she threw an “arm party”. But the prosthetic was heavy and hard to use and she hardly ever put it on again. In an article in IEEE Spectrum, Young says the media and the tech world have been seduced by whiz-bang prosthetic technology at the expense of what most disabled people really need: access, reliability and affordability. “We are caught in a bionic-hand arms race” she writes “It's time to ask who prostheses are really for, and what we hope they will actually accomplish.” Guests: Britt H Young, writer, "The Bionic-Hand Arms Race" in IEEE; PhD candidate in Geography, UC Berkeley

New research is emerging with startling numbers in terms of how many people may suffer from long COVID. Columbia University physician and professor Mady Hornig has been battling long COVID. She joins us. And, an amateur group of space enthusiasts from Copenhagen have been spending their spare time building rockets. Brett Dahlberg of IEEE Spectrum reports.