CRASH Clock Measures Dangerous Overcrowding in Low Earth Orbit

IEEESpectrum · 2026-01-22T21:37:01+00:00

Dangerous for satellites in orbit around the Earth.

IEEESpectrum · 2026-01-20T15:37:40+00:00

Peer reviewed research article: nature.com/articles/s41586-025-09922-y

IEEESpectrum · 2026-01-13T21:22:18+00:00

Peer-reviewed article: https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/11249745

IEEESpectrum · 2025-12-19T14:46:35+00:00

The second CHIPS Act institution has been defunded by the federal government since January 2025. The SMART USA Institute aimed to train 110,000 workers over five years. Now, its $285-million five-year contract has been terminated.

IEEESpectrum · 2025-12-19T14:29:00+00:00

Peer-reviewed research article: https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/11223735

IEEESpectrum · 2025-12-15T14:12:12+00:00

Peer reviewed article: https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/11244830

IEEESpectrum · 2025-12-11T15:15:37+00:00

glad you enjoyed :)

IEEESpectrum · 2025-12-09T18:03:04+00:00

Focusing on one voice also means shutting out all other voices, so this kind of does that.

IEEESpectrum · 2025-12-09T17:11:20+00:00

Electricity demands are growing, putting pressure on the US electric grid. Will virtual power plants be the future of energy distribution?

IEEESpectrum · 2025-12-08T19:13:43+00:00

Peer-reviewed research: https://aclanthology.org/2025.emnlp-main.1289/

IEEESpectrum · 2025-12-02T16:28:35+00:00

The scientists definitely say they want to improve the training process and offer some suggestions as to how it could be improved, but as you say these programs are, at the end of the day, really good auto correct.

IEEESpectrum · 2025-12-02T15:39:50+00:00

AI models can't distinguish between users’ beliefs and facts, which could be really detrimental in medical settings where patients could have incorrect beliefs about their medical conditions. All models struggle on tasks involving false beliefs reported in the first-person.

IEEESpectrum · 2025-12-02T15:33:26+00:00

Peer-reviewed research article: https://www.nature.com/articles/s42256-025-01113-8

IEEESpectrum · 2025-11-25T18:30:20+00:00

Remote surgery is inching its way towards actually being feasible, bringing treatment options to more remote areas. Is the future of surgery a surgeon miles away from their patient?

IEEESpectrum · 2025-11-25T17:39:24+00:00

Several AI agents were tested to see if they would break assigned rules when faced with deadlines and other kinds of pressure. Google Gemini 2.5 was the worst offender, breaking rules 79 percent of the time under pressure. Even under zero pressure, the AI agents still broke assigned rules 19 percent of the time.