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IEEE will no longer accept Playboy's "Lenna" image for image processing research

A hot potato: Simply known as "Lenna," the test image was scanned by Alexander Sawchuk at the University of Southern California's Signal and Image Processing Institute in 1973. It's been used in research papers about image processing since then, but now the time has come to retire this piece of fortuitous standard in digital beauty.

Full story By Alfonso Maruccia, April 1, 2024, 7:40 AM 39 comments

Security Electronics

Researchers develop self-destructing circuits to defend against attacks, counterfeiting

This chip will self-destruct in three, two...

By Shawn Knight, March 1, 2024, 12:43 PM 13 comments

Number Representations in Computer Hardware, Explained

FEATURE By Abdulrahman Mahmoud, March 6, 2023, 6:09 AM TechSpot Tech Culture

Welcome to a most fundamental area of computer design: how numbers are represented in hardware! We know that modern computers use and are very efficient at using binary, but wasn't always the case.

Mobile Electronics

Intel expects to have Wi-Fi 7 PCs in 2024 with speeds up to 5.8Gbps

Other companies are already jumping the gun

By Daniel Sims, August 4, 2022, 6:09 PM 14 comments

Electronics Hardware

MRAM could one day break modern encryption methods

Semiconductors that can run forwards and backwards

By Greg Synek, December 12, 2017, 9:53 AM

News Around the Web

Weekend tech reading: IEEE ratifies 5Gbps Ethernet, Amazon vs. UPS and FedEx on delivery

By Matthew DeCarlo, October 2, 2016, 11:30 AM 7 comments

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Apple Industry

Latest Mac OS X beta indicates upcoming 802.11ac Wi-Fi support

By Rick Burgess, April 10, 2013, 12:30 PM

Industry Hardware

7Gbps wireless on the way, WiGig (802.11ad) adopted by IEEE

By Rick Burgess, January 15, 2013, 4:00 PM 8 comments

Hardware

IBM to showcase high-speed silicon nanophotonic technology at IEEE

By Shawn Knight, December 10, 2012, 1:00 PM

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Gaming Science

Custom UT2004 bots are more human than real-life players

By Rick Burgess, October 1, 2012, 3:30 PM 15 comments

Security The Web

IEEE accidentally exposed 100,000 unencrypted user credentials

By Matthew DeCarlo, September 26, 2012, 6:30 PM

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Industry

Researchers with IEEE create group to plan new Ethernet standard

By Shawn Knight, August 21, 2012, 8:30 AM

Industry Mobile

802.11-2012 Wi-Fi promises 600Mbps, 3.65-3.7GHz, mesh networking

By Rick Burgess, May 8, 2012, 7:00 PM 7 comments

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Industry Mobile

Apple offers nano-SIM design free of royalties, but there's a catch

By Rick Burgess, March 26, 2012, 6:00 PM 12 comments

Industry Hardware

NTT demonstrates next-gen 802.11ac wireless system

By Jose Vilches, July 13, 2011, 9:00 AM