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The Download: supercharged scams and studying AI healthcare
INNOVATION 24/04/2026 12:10

The Download: supercharged scams and studying AI healthcare

This is today’s edition of The Download, our weekday newsletter that provides a daily dose of what’s going on in the world of technology. We’re in a new era of AI-driven scams When ChatGPT was released in lat

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What Anthropic’s Mythos Means for the Future of Cybersecurity
INNOVATION 23/04/2026 14:00

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 them into working exploits without expert guidance. These were vulnerabi

Source: IEEE Spectrum

Health-care AI is here. We don’t know if it actually helps patients.
INNOVATION 24/04/2026 09:00

Health-care AI is here. We don’t know if it actually helps patients.

I don’t need to tell you that AI is everywhere. Or that it is being used, increasingly, in hospitals. Doctors are using AI to help them with notetaking. AI-based tools are trawling through patient records, flagging peopl

Source: MIT Technology Review

This Roboticist-Turned-Teacher Built a Life-Size Replica of ENIAC
INNOVATION 23/04/2026 13:00

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 most recently, led a group of students in building a full-scale replica of a pivotal 19

Source: IEEE Spectrum

The Download: introducing the Nature issue
INNOVATION 23/04/2026 12:10

The Download: introducing the Nature issue

This is today’s edition of The Download, our weekday newsletter that provides a daily dose of what’s going on in the world of technology. Introducing: the Nature issue When we talk about “nature,” we usually

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Reviving Teletext for Ham Radio
INNOVATION 22/04/2026 16:19

Reviving Teletext for Ham Radio

Once upon a time in Europe, television remote controls had a magic teletext button. Years before the internet stole into homes, pressing that button brought up teletext digital information services with hundreds of const

Source: IEEE Spectrum

Will fusion power get cheap? Don’t count on it.
INNOVATION 23/04/2026 10:00

Will fusion power get cheap? Don’t count on it.

Fusion power could provide a steady, zero-emissions source of electricity in the future—if companies can get plants built and running. But a new study suggests that even if that future arrives, it might not come cheap. T

Source: MIT Technology Review

Building an Interregional Transmission Overlay for a Resilient U.S. Grid
INNOVATION 22/04/2026 10:00

Building an Interregional Transmission Overlay for a Resilient U.S. Grid

Examining how a U.S. Interregional Transmission Overlay could address aging grid infrastructure, surging demand, and renewable integration challenges.What Attendees will LearnWhy the current regional grid structure is ap

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The Download: introducing the 10 Things That Matter in AI Right Now
INNOVATION 22/04/2026 12:10

The Download: introducing the 10 Things That Matter in AI Right Now

This is today’s edition of The Download, our weekday newsletter that provides a daily dose of what’s going on in the world of technology. Introducing: 10 Things That Matter in AI Right Now What actually matte

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What to Consider Before You Accept a Management Role
INNOVATION 21/04/2026 16:43

What to Consider Before You Accept a Management Role

This article is crossposted from IEEE Spectrum’s careers newsletter. Sign up now to get insider tips, expert advice, and practical strategies, written in partnership with tech career development company Parsity and deliv

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AI needs a strong data fabric to deliver business value
INNOVATION 22/04/2026 10:05

AI needs a strong data fabric to deliver business value

Artificial intelligence is moving quickly in the enterprise, from experimentation to everyday use. Organizations are deploying copilots, agents, and predictive systems across finance, supply chains, human resources, and

Source: MIT Technology Review

The Forgotten History of Hershey’s Electric Railway in Cuba
INNOVATION 21/04/2026 13:00

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 brought on by World War I. The Hershey Chocolate Co. was by then a chocolate-making powerhouse, having refined

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3 things Michelle Kim is into right now
INNOVATION 22/04/2026 10:00

3 things Michelle Kim is into right now

Isegye Idol If you thought K-pop was weird, virtual idols—humans who perform as anime-style digital characters via motion capture—will blow your mind. My favorite is a girl group called Isegye Idol, created by Woowakgood

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The USC Professor Who Pioneered Socially Assistive Robotics
INNOVATION 20/04/2026 18:00

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 she helped define the new area of socially assistive robotics.As an associate professor of computer scie

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One town’s scheme to get rid of its geese
INNOVATION 22/04/2026 10:00

One town’s scheme to get rid of its geese

“Pull over!” I order my brother one sunny February afternoon. Our target is in sight: a gaggle of Canada geese, pecking at grass near the dog park. As I approach, tiptoeing over their grayish-white poop, I notice that on

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How Engineers Kick-Started the Scientific Method
INNOVATION 19/04/2026 13:00

How Engineers Kick-Started the Scientific Method

In 1627, a year after the death of the philosopher and statesman Francis Bacon, a short, evocative tale of his was published. The New Atlantis describes how a ship blown off course arrives at an unknown island called Ben

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There is no nature anymore
INNOVATION 22/04/2026 10:00

There is no nature anymore

When people talk about “nature,” they’re generally talking about things that aren’t made by human beings. Rocks. Reefs. Red wolves. But while there is plenty of God’s creation to go around, it is hard to think of anythin

Source: MIT Technology Review

Designing Broadband LPDA-Fed Reflector Antennas With Full-Wave EM Simulation
INNOVATION 17/04/2026 14:00

Designing Broadband LPDA-Fed Reflector Antennas With Full-Wave EM Simulation

A practical guide to designing log-periodic dipole array fed parabolic reflector antennas using advanced 3D MoM simulation — from parametric modeling to electrically large structures.What Attendees will LearnHow to set d

Source: IEEE Spectrum

Los Angeles is finally going underground
INNOVATION 22/04/2026 10:00

Los Angeles is finally going underground

Los Angeles deserves its reputation as the quintessential car city—the rhythms of its 2,200 square miles are dictated by wide boulevards and concrete arcs of freeways. But it once had a world-class rail transit system, a

Source: MIT Technology Review

IEEE Entrepreneurship Connects Hardware Startups With Investors
INNOVATION 16/04/2026 18:00

IEEE Entrepreneurship Connects Hardware Startups With Investors

Roughly 90 percent of hard tech startups fail due to funding constraints, longer R&D timelines for developing hardware, and the complexity of manufacturing their products, according to a number of studies.Generally, thes

Source: IEEE Spectrum

Stealth Signals Are Bypassing Iran’s Internet Blackout
INNOVATION 15/04/2026 13:00

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: For weeks, the internet was off across all provinces while services including

Source: IEEE Spectrum

Crypto Faces Increased Threat From Quantum Attacks
INNOVATION 15/04/2026 13:00

Crypto Faces Increased Threat From Quantum Attacks

The race to transition online security protocols to ones that can’t be cracked by a quantum computer is already on. The algorithms that are commonly used today to protect data online—RSA and elliptic curve cryptography—a

Source: IEEE Spectrum

Sarang Gupta Builds AI Systems With Real-World Impact
INNOVATION 14/04/2026 18:00

Sarang Gupta Builds AI Systems With Real-World Impact

Like many engineers, Sarang Gupta spent his childhood tinkering with everyday items around the house. From a young age he gravitated to projects that could make a difference in someone’s everyday life.When the family’s m

Source: IEEE Spectrum

What It’s Like to Live With an Experimental Brain Implant
INNOVATION 14/04/2026 13:00

What It’s Like to Live With an Experimental Brain Implant

Scott Imbrie vividly remembers the first time he used a robotic arm to shake someone’s hand and felt the robotic limb as if it were his own. “I still get goosebumps when I think about that initial contact,” he says. “It’

Source: IEEE Spectrum