First MLPerf benchmarks for Nvidia Blackwell, AMD, Google, Untether AI spectrum.ieee.org/new-inference-…

Researchers at Caltech have developed a method of continuously monitoring blood pressure using ultrasound and acoustic sound waves to create resonant frequencies in a person's artery walls. spectrum.ieee.org/blood-pressure…

Who needs proprietary systems when you can build your own smart home tech with balena, Home Assistant, Raspberry Pi, and a dash of nuclear control room? This DIY control panel from Alan Boris is the ultimate in geeky home improvement. spectrum.ieee.org/smart-home-ass…

Hundreds of event will be held around the world to celebrate #IEEE Day’s 15th anniversary on 1 October. spectrum.ieee.org/ieee-day-2024?…

California's "AI Safety" bill—now awaiting Governor Newsom's signature—stands to impact nearly the entire AI industry. spectrum.ieee.org/california-ai-…

Google DeepMind has developed a robot that can go point-for-point with amateur table tennis players. Watch that and more in this week's roundup of robot videos from IEEE Spectrum! spectrum.ieee.org/video-friday-r…

An inquiry into AI image-generation models that can create child sexual abuse material may have yielded results, as #StableDiffusion version 1.5 has just disappeared from Hugging Face. #CSAM #onlinesafety spectrum.ieee.org/csam?share_id=…

Was an AI Image Generator Taken Down for Making Child Porn? < my latest article, in collaboration with Dave Willner, from IEEE Spectrum. spectrum.ieee.org/csam

Proud to have worked with David Evan Harris linkedin.com/in/davidevanharris and Dave Willner - @[email protected] on this piece -- let's have AI that doesn't produce child sexual abuse material, please! spectrum.ieee.org/stable-diffusi…

Stable Diffusion version 1.5, one of the image generators that has been most implicated in the production of CSAM, has just disappeared from the popular hosting platform Hugging Face. spectrum.ieee.org/stable-diffusi…

With more websites using robots.txt to restrict crawler bots, AI companies may soon be hurting for training data. A Q&A with Shayne Longpre of the Data Provenance Initiative. spectrum.ieee.org/web-crawling?s…

By staying with #IEEE, young engineers can expand their network, gain leadership experience, and more, says IEEE President Tom Coughlin. spectrum.ieee.org/ieee-president…

Richard Garwin is one of the most accomplished physicists and engineers of the 20th century. Yet he made perhaps his most consequential contribution at the age of 23: He designed the first working hydrogen bomb, nicknamed "The Sausage." spectrum.ieee.org/richard-garwin…

"A couple of rogue tech bros taking action completely outside the scope of government authority or any public engagement are really embodying the nightmare of what folks think this could be." spectrum.ieee.org/solar-geoengin…

If TSMC wants to keep its biggest customers and continue serving as Taiwan’s geopolitical shield, Taiwan must add carbon-free energy to its grid, and fast. In this IEEE Spectrum deep dive, Peter Fairley ⚡ Journalist @pfairley.bsky.social visits TSMC and Taiwan’s grid operator, Taipower, t spectrum.ieee.org/tsmc-energy-ch…

Will the Starliner crisis change how NASA does things? spectrum.ieee.org/boeing-starlin…

Do-gooder initiatives to tackle Global South problems with AI often miss the mark, says Payal Arora of Utrecht University. This guest article was adapted from her new book about designing inclusive tech: "From Pessimism to Promise," published by The MIT Press @mitpress.bsky.social. spectrum.ieee.org/ai-for-good?sh…

When The New York Times launched its Connections puzzle last year, it became an instant hint—so much so that researchers at New York University were inspired to see if a large language model could make compelling puzzles in the same style. spectrum.ieee.org/connections-pu…

A U.S. National Science Foundation $52 million center for better robotic hands, ETH Zurich rainforest drones, 1X humanoids for the home, and more in this week's roundup of robot videos from IEEE Spectrum! spectrum.ieee.org/video-friday-r…