How NASA is Hacking Voyager 1 Back to Life

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On 14 November 2023, NASA’s interstellar space probe Voyager 1 began sending gibberish back to Earth. For five months, the spacecraft transmitted unusable data equivalent to a dial tone.In March, engineers discovered the cause of the communication snafu: a stuck bit in one of the chips comprising part of Voyager’s…
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To Make Cars Safer, Connect Them to Everything

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This article is part of our exclusive IEEE Journal Watch series in partnership with IEEE Xplore. Between Elon Musk’s broken promises of “Full Self-Driving“ and California’s ban on Cruise’s driverless taxis, initial public enthusiasm for autonomous cars has given way to rampant skepticism and regulatory scrutiny.Yet automakers, tech giants, and…
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Video Friday: Loco-Manipulation

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Video Friday is your weekly selection of awesome robotics videos, collected by your friends at IEEE Spectrum robotics. We also post a weekly calendar of upcoming robotics events for the next few months. Please send us your events for inclusion.Eurobot Open 2024: 8–11 May 2024, LA ROCHE-SUR-YON, FRANCEICRA 2024: 13–17…
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Smart Antennas Shape Satellite Internet Tech to Come

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Satellite internet services are expanding rapidly, but the ground terminals required to connect to them are expensive and power-hungry. French startup Greenerwave is building a terminal that uses something they call a “reconfigurable intelligent surface” (RIS) to reduce both costs and energy consumption. Constellations of low-earth-orbit (LEO) satellites from companies…
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AI Copilots Are Changing How Coding Is Taught

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Generative AI is transforming the software development industry. AI-powered coding tools are assisting programmers in their workflows, while jobs in AI continue to increase. But the shift is also evident in academia—one of the major avenues through which the next generation of software engineers learn how to code.Computer science students…
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Superconducting "Islands" Could Lead to Magnetic Memory

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Ferromagnetism and superconductivity don’t play well together. Ordinarily the two phenomena—ferromagnetism grants garden-variety permanent magnets their magnetic fields and superconductivity expels the internal magnetic fields of certain materials cooled below critical temperatures—seem to cancel each other out.But under uncommon circumstances, the two phenomena can behave with one another. One such…
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Expect a Wave of Waferscale Computers

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At TSMC’s North American Technology Symposium on Wednesday, the company detailed both its semiconductor technology and chip packaging technology roadmaps. While the former is key to keeping the traditional part of Moore’s Law going, the latter could accelerate a trend towards processors made from more and more silicon, leading quickly…
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