We Need to Decarbonize Software

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Software may be eating the world, but it is also heating it. In December 2023, representatives from nearly 200 countries gathered in Dubai for COP28, the U.N.’s climate-change conference, to discuss the urgent need to lower emissions. Meanwhile, COP28’s website produced 3.69 grams of carbon dioxide (CO2) per page load,…
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Video Friday: Project GR00T

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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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6G Terahertz Devices Demand 3D Electronics

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Smartphones have a scaling problem. Specifically, the radiofrequency (RF) filters that every phone—and every wireless device in general—uses to extract information from isolated wireless signals are too big, too flat, and too numerous. And without these filters, wireless communications simply wouldn’t work at all.“They are literally the entire backbone of…
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This Transistor Can Be Reconfigured on the Fly

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Computer operations are a straightforward process: Specific sets of transistors carry out predetermined logical functions. But computer researchers have hoped that someday, electronic circuits would not be stuck doing only one specific task. Instead, the idea is that circuits could be switched to perform various functions as the situation demanded—a…
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