The Coming Boom in Rare Earths

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It would be an overstatement to say that the modern world runs on rare-earth elements. But as overstatements go, that one has more than a grain of truth.Because of their unique luminescent, electrochemical, and magnetocrystalline properties, rare-earth elements are essential to some of the most important and fastest-growing tech-based industries.…
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When Waters Rise, Satellites Now Lag

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This article is part of our exclusive IEEE Journal Watch series in partnership with IEEE Xplore. During the summer of 2020, China’s second-largest freshwater body of water—Dongting Lake—experienced unprecedented levels of flooding, the likes of which had not been seen over the previous two decades. As a result of unusually…
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Is the Turing Test Dead?

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When Alan Turing first proposed an approach to distinguish the “minds” of machines from those of human beings in 1950, the idea that a machine could ever achieve human-level intelligence was almost laughable. In the Turing test—which Turing himself originally called the “imitation game“—human participants conduct a conversation with unknown…
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