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IEEE Spectrum Through its Collision Risk Estimation and Automated Mitigation (CREAM) project, the European Space Agency is leveraging AI to prevent space collisions. CREAM provides a single system to organize communications among satellite operators, space monitoring services, regulators, and other entities involved in space operations. It can assess potential collisions, produce precise avoidance plans, and […]

IEEE Spectrum An increasing number of local governments in the U.S. are deploying AI-powered cameras at intersections in hopes of changing driver behavior, as technology companies try to bring the results seen in Europe to U.S. streets. Stop for Kids’ AI cameras detect vehicles that violate traffic laws at intersections and automatically issues citations. In […]

IEEE Spectrum The Ohio and Indiana departments of transportation are testing semiautonomous “platooning” technology as a means of addressing the trucking industry’s driver shortage and improving both safety and fuel efficiency. The pilot project involves a human-operated lead truck followed by an autonomous truck, both connected via encrypted military-grade communications. The follower truck mimics the […]

IEEE Spectrum A prototype thermodynamic computer developed by researchers at New York startup Normal Computing harnesses noise to invert matrices. Researchers also used it to demonstrate Gaussian sampling, which underlies some AI applications. The system’s prototype a stochastic processing unit features eight capacitor-inductor resonators connected by tunable couplers and initialized with randomly generated noise. After […]

xMEMS says it has adapted its upcoming ultrasonic microelectromechanical (MEMS) “fan-on-a-chip” to fit inside a pluggable optical transceiver so it drives air through and cools the transceiver’s main digital part, the digital signal processor (DSP). Keeping the DSP cool is critical to its longevity, says Tarter. At upwards of US $2,000 per transceiver, getting an […]

IEEE Spectrum A study of a database of 34 of the biggest Bitcoin mines in the U.S. by Harvard University researchers found they consumed 32.3 terawatt-hours of electricity from August 2022 to July 2023, 33% more than consumed by all of Los Angeles over the same period. The researchers discovered four key hotspot pockets of […]

IEEE Spectrum The U.S. chip workforce is forecast to grow 33% to 460,000 jobs by 2030, according to the Semiconductor Industry Association, but 67,000 of those jobs may be difficult to fill due to a lack of qualified candidates. In mid-April, job platform Indeed listed more than 900 entry-level semiconductor roles, including more than 100 […]

IEEE Spectrum Intel researchers leveraged reinforcement learning to identify more silent data errors in its Xeon processors before they are installed in datacenters. The technique builds on the Eigen tests currently are used to detect such errors. Researchers focused the tests on the area of the chip that uses fuse-multiply-add (FMA) instructions to perform matrix […]

IEEE Spectrum IEEE Spectrum’s annual ranking of U.S. patenting powerhouses in 2024 features mostly Big Tech companies in the top 10. Based on 1790 Analytics’ Pipeline Power metric, Amazon has the most patent power despite ranking 20th for the number of patents, mainly because its patents are cited more frequently by other patents. Samsung was […]