New terahertz technique lets engineers see inside running processors in real time
Modified lab equipment can map transistor activity inside a live processor without touching it
This Wi-Fi receiver can work inside a nuclear reactor, keeping robots connected
Highly anticipated: A team in Japan has developed a Wi-Fi receiver capable of operating in the extreme radiation inside nuclear reactors, an advance that could help robotics teams safely decommission aging power plants. The receiver, developed at the Institute of Science Tokyo, demonstrated resilience under radiation doses roughly 1,000 times higher than what typical electronics can withstand.
Wi-Fi 8 is already peeking out at CES 2026, even though it won't be finished until 2028
Broadcom and MediaTek preview Wi-Fi 8 silicon on draft specs
Wi-Fi 8 detailed, even if it's years away: More stable connections, lower latency
Qualcomm previews what's coming in Wi-Fi 8, 1.0 draft specification expected soon
"MyTerms" draft standard wants to fix what Do Not Track couldn't
A new IEEE standard proposes machine-readable contracts for digital consent
WiFi 8 promises the same fast speeds of WiFi 7 with more reliable connections and signal routing
Be patient: WiFi 7 still isn't ratified and WiFi 8 won't arrive until 2028 at the earliest
Number Representations in Computer Hardware, Explained
Welcome to a fundamental area of computer design: how numbers are represented in hardware! This can ultimately mean the difference between a blazing fast machine and a costly $475 million bug – Pentium 4, anyone?
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.
Researchers develop self-destructing circuits to defend against attacks, counterfeiting
This chip will self-destruct in three, two...
Intel expects to have Wi-Fi 7 PCs in 2024 with speeds up to 5.8Gbps
Other companies are already jumping the gun
MRAM could one day break modern encryption methods
Semiconductors that can run forwards and backwards
