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Smart-home hub maker SmartThings acquired by home appliance giant Samsung 15 Aug Geek Life Author Mike Malone On Intel’s Holy Trinity, Steve Jobs, and Other Silicon Valley Greats Is this the dawning of the age of Elon? 15 Aug Advertisement Computing Mathematical Obfuscation Against Hackers Is Focus of New Cybersecurity Center Researchers hope obfuscation methods will protect software from hackers 14 Aug Gadgets Here Comes the 3-D Portrait Studio Lower-cost 3-D scanners and full-color 3-D printers combine to kick off a new kind of portrait photography 13 Aug Computing WiFi Backscatter: The Internet of Things Could Talk by Turning Reflective New research enables chips without power sources to communicate by reflecting signals from Wi-Fi routers 13 Aug At Work A "Sound Camera" Zeroes In on Buzz, Squeak, and Rattle Handheld sound-visualizing camera helps Hyundai engineers seek out and destroy acoustic irritants 11 Aug Aerospace Robotic Telescope Captures Clear Images of Exoplanet Stars Gigantic robot telescope researches hundreds of targets per night 11 Aug Computing Bendable Sound Waves Can Skirt Objects, Trap Particles Someday, scientists will sort molecules with sound, and bones won't photobomb ultrasound images 8 Aug Telecom Black Hat 2014: How to Hack the Cloud to Mine Crypto Currency Cyber security researchers devise a hack to demonstrate the need for improved anti-botnet security measures 8 Aug Telecom Black Hat 2014: A New Smartcard Hack Researchers hack chip-based credit and debit cards. Banks hack terms-of-service changes so consumers would be stuck with the bill 7 Aug Computing IBM's Brain-Inspired Computer Chip Comes from the Future An IBM computer chip modelled on biological brains aims to make everything more intelligent 7 Aug Biomedical An NMR Chip The Size of a Seed Together with a small permanent magnet, the chip could enable cheap NMR analysis in factories and clinics 5 Aug Gadgets Is There Any Way to Avoid Standards Wars in the Emerging Internet of Things? Or how I stopped worrying and learned to love industry consortia 4 Aug Advertisement Computing USB Flash Drives Are More Dangerous Than You Think White-hat hackers reveal a new vulnerability in those ubiquitous thumb drives 4 Aug Gadgets No Need for Reading Glasses With Vision-Correcting Display Light-field display looks crystal clear with your imperfect vision 31 Jul Semiconductors Will Silicon Save Quantum Computing? Silicon has become a leading contender in the hunt for a practical, scalable quantum bit 31 Jul Geek Life Build a Levitating Disco Ball Electromagnetism, feedback, and the power of disco keep things aloft 30 Jul Computing Google Searches About Politics Predict the Stock Market But the connection is weakening 30 Jul Biomedical Can Computing Keep up With the Neuroscience Data Deluge? When an imaging run generates 1 terabyte of data, analysis becomes the problem 29 Jul Computing U.S. State Department Global Passport, Visa Issuing Operations Disrupted Computer problems could create backlog of hundreds of thousands of applicants 28 Jul Computing A Fictional Compression Metric Moves Into the Real World The Weissman Score, a compression algorithm metric created for HBO's Silicon Valley, is making its way into the real world 28 Jul Computing Mindful Computing A lot of energy goes toward taming digital demands on our time 25 Jul Computing A Made-For-TV Compression Algorithm Stanford’s Tsachy Weissman and Vinith Misra created a fictional, but plausible, compression algorithm for HBO’s Silicon Valley comedy series 25 Jul Computing Browser Fingerprinting and the Online-Tracking Arms Race Web advertisers are stealthily monitoring our browsing habits—even when we tell them not to 25 Jul Computing Camera-Filled Dome Recreates Full 3-D Motion Scenes The same technique could theoretically recreate scenes captured by hundreds of spectator cameras 23 Jul At Work Mime Troupe Plays For Peace In San Francisco’s Tech Wars Left-leaning comedy group aims to teach well-meaning tech workers that there is no such thing as not political 23 Jul Computing Bitcoin Gets Its Own TV Network Kryptoradio will broadcast the Bitcoin blockchain on digital TV to increase redundancy and enable new applications 22 Jul Computing Senate Condemns US Air Force ECSS Program Management’s Incompetence Underwhelming executive leadership studiously ignored its own risk mitigation plans, 21 Jul Computing Top 10 Programming Languages Spectrum’s 2014 Ranking 19 Jul Aerospace Freeman Dyson Predicts the Future IEEE Spectrum asks the celebrated physicist what the next 50 years will hold 18 Jul Computing Face Aging Software Can Show Your Child's Future A baby's face can be accurately aged through adulthood with the first automated aging software 10 Apr Computing The EE Gender Gap Is Widening Electrical engineering faces an age-old question: What do women want? 1 Dec 2008 Computing Medal of Honor: Thomas Kailath His algorithms re-engineered digital communications and semiconductor processing 30 Apr 2007 Computing Digital Actors Go Beyond the Uncanny Valley Computer-generated humans in movies and video games are paving the way for new forms of entertainment 27 May Topics Aerospace At Work Biomedical Computing Energy Gadgets Geek Life Robotics Semiconductors Telecom Connect Facebook Twitter LinkedIn Google+ RSS IEEE Spectrum Contact Us About Newsletters Mobile Site IEEE Partners Advertising & Media Center IEEE Job Site Buyer’s Guide The Magazine Subscribe Now Digital Download © Copyright 2014 IEEE Spectrum Terms & Conditions | Privacy & Security | Nondiscrimination Policy About IEEE Conferences & Events Education & Careers Membership & Services Publications and Standards Societies & Communities