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2023

January 2023

        Top Tech 2023: A Special Report
    
        13 Intriguing Engineering Milestones to Look for in 2023
    
        Finally, an eVTOL You Can Buy (Soon)
    
        China’s New Breeder Reactors May Produce More Than Just Watts
    
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February 2023

        The Inner Beauty of Basic Electronics
    
        How Police Exploited the Capitol Riot’s Digital Records
    
        Who Really Invented the Thumb Drive?
    
        This Implant Turns Brain Waves Into Words
    
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March 2023

        Roboticists Want to Give You a Third Arm
    
        50 Years Later, We’re Still Living in the Xerox Alto’s World
    
        Aalyria’s Lasers and Routers Could Close the Digital Divide
    
        This New Breed of Generator Can Run on Almost Any Fuel
    
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April 2023

        How an Electrical Engineer Solved Australia’s Most Famous Cold Case
    
        The EV Transition Is Harder Than Anyone Thinks
    
        Gallium Nitride and Silicon Carbide Fight for Green Tech Domination
    
        “Web3 Is Going Just Great” Creator On Why It Isn’t
    
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May 2023

        Meet Mr. Internet: Vint Cerf
    
        Stable Attribution Identifies the Art Behind AI Images
    
        Your Robotic Avatar Is Almost Ready
    
        4 Ways to Put Lasers on Silicon
    
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June 2023

        This AI Hunts for Hidden Hoards of Battery Metals
    
        The Strange Story of the Teens Behind the Mirai Botnet
    
        U.S. Universities Are Building a New Semiconductor Workforce
    
        Flight Simulator Gave Birth to 3D Video-Game Graphics
    
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July 2023

        Flat Lenses Made of Nanostructures Transform Tiny Cameras and Projectors
    
        Will Robots Triumph over World Cup Winners by 2050?
    
        What AMD Learned From Its Big Chiplet Push
    
        A Critical Look at AI-Generated Software
    
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August 2023

        Can Neural Stimulation Zap Addiction?
    
        Boston Dynamics’ Founder on the Future of Robotics
    
        Who Really Invented the Rechargeable Lithium-Ion Battery?
    
        This Fusion Reactor Is Held Together With Tape
    
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September 2023

        This Machine Could Keep Moore’s Law on Track
    
        Superhuman Speed: How Autonomous Drones Beat the Best Human Racers
    
        Why Today’s Chatbots Are Weird, Argumentative, and Wrong
    
        Lidar on a Chip Puts Self-Driving Cars in the Fast Lane
    
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October 2023

        Studying Climate Change With an Ice Radar Drone
    
        The Practical Power of Fusing Photons
    
        Why the Next Microgrids Will Be Well Connected
    
        Assistive Tech at the End of Sight
    
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November 2023

        This Robot Could Be the Key to Empowering People With Disabilities
    
        Why Power a Whisky Still with Green Hydrogen?
    
        How Generative AI Helped Me Imagine a Better Robot
    
        The Creepy New Digital Afterlife Industry
    
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December 2023

        A Bold New Plan for Preserving Online Privacy and Security
    
        Bezos Bucks? Get Ready for Corporate Digital Currency
    
        Generating Power on Earth From the Coldness of Deep Space
    
        What to Do When the Ghost in the Machine Is You
    
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2022

January 2022

        Top Tech 2022: A Special Report
    
        Digging Into the New QD-OLED TVs
    
        12 Exciting Engineering Milestones to Look for in 2022
    
        China Will Attempt First Carbon-Neutral Winter Olympics
    
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February 2022

        Psyche: NASA Mission to a Metal World
    
        How to Prevent Blackouts by Packetizing the Power Grid
    
        Letting Robocars See Around Corners
    
        How E Ink Developed Full-Color e-Paper
    
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March 2022

        Their Bionic Eyes Are Now Obsolete and Unsupported
    
        NASA’s New Shortcut to Fusion Power
    
        Why We Built a Neuromorphic Robot to Play Foosball
    
        Satellite Imagery for Everyone
    
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April 2022

        Andrew Ng: Unbiggen AI
    
        The Vacuum Tube’s Forgotten Rival
    
        This Axial-Flux Motor With a PCB Stator Is Ripe for an Electrified World
    
        A DIY Tracker Tough Enough for the Arctic
    
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May 2022

        Inside DARPA’s Subterranean Challenge
    
        The X-Ray Tech That Reveals Chip Designs
    
        Search for Buried Treasure With This DIY Magnetometer
    
        Tesla Inside: The Ultimate Vintage Land Rover Retrofit
    
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June 2022

        A Quantum of Sensing—Atomic Scale Bolsters New Sensor Boom
    
        Eavesdropping on the Brain With 10,000 Electrodes
    
        Practical Power Beaming Gets Real
    
        Testing Products for Consumer Reports
    
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July 2022

        AI-Guided Robots Are Ready to Sort Your Recyclables
    
        Quantum Error Correction: Time to Make It Work
    
        How to Hasten India’s Transition Away From Coal
    
        DIY Gamma-Ray Spectroscopy with a Raspberry Pi Pico
    
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August 2022

        This Dutch City Is Road-Testing Vehicle-to-Grid Tech
    
        How Robots Can Help Us Act and Feel Younger
    
        This Startup Builds USVs That Collect Data About Oceans
    
        Today’s Robotic Surgery Turns Surgical Trainees Into Spectators
    
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September 2022

        Inside the Universe Machine: The Webb Space Telescope’s Staggering Vision
    
        Building a Fleet of Personal EVs in Kenya
    
        The Spectacular Collapse of CryptoKitties, the First Big Blockchain Game
    
        Restoring Hearing With Beams of Light
    
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October 2022

        The Bionic-Hand Arms Race
    
        Ensuring Underwater Robots Survive in Hot Tropical Waters
    
        Deep Learning Could Bring the Concert Experience Home
    
        The Godfather of South Korea’s Chip Industry
    
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November 2022

        With This Bionic Nose, COVID Survivors May Smell the Roses Again
    
        Craig Partridge Is Still Working to Improve Internet Traffic
    
        Why the Internet Needs the InterPlanetary File System
    
        Metamaterials Could Solve One of 6G’s Big Problems
    
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December 2022

        The Transistor at 75
    
        The Ultimate Transistor Timeline
    
        The State of the Transistor in 3 Charts
    
        The Transistor of 2047: Expert Predictions
    
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2021

January 2021

        Special Report: Top Tech 2021
    
        Deep Learning at the Speed of Light
    
        10 Exciting Engineering Milestones to Look for in 2021
    
        At Last, First Light for the James Webb Space Telescope Nears
    
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February 2021

        Brain Implants and Wearables Let Paralyzed People Move Again
    
        Breakthrough Listen Is Searching a Million Stars for One Sign of Intelligent Life
    
        FAA Files Reveal a Surprising Threat to Airline Safety: the U.S. Military's GPS Tests
    
        It’s Too Easy to Hide Bias in Deep-Learning Systems
    
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March 2021

        Atomically Precise Sensors Could Detect Another Earth
    
        How To Build a Radio That Ignores Its Own Transmissions
    
        The Algorithms That Make Instacart Roll
    
        Why the Shipping Industry Is Betting Big on Ammonia
    
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April 2021

        The Ultimate Incubator: The Brave New World of Bionic Babies
    
        Waiting for Quantum Computing? Try Probabilistic Computing
    
        2021 Top 10 Tech Cars 
    
        2021’s Top Ten Tech Cars: Porsche 911 Turbo S
    
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May 2021

        Building an AI That Feels
    
        The Radio We Could Send to Hell
    
        Hack an Analog TV Into a Geek TV
    
        The Cellular Industry’s Clash Over the Movement to Remake Networks
    
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June 2021

        Inovio’s Electrical Device Zaps a COVID-19 Vaccine Into the Body
    
        How Nanotech Can Foil Counterfeiters
    
        Skin Displays Will Give Wearables Their Independence
    
        Off-Grid Solar’s Killer App
    
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July 2021

        Cerebras’ New Monster AI Chip Adds 1.4 Trillion Transistors
    
        The Future of Deep Learning Is Photonic
    
        Engineers: You Can Disrupt Climate Change
    
        For Precision, the Sapphire Clock Outshines Even the Best Atomic Clocks
    
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August 2021

        Fast, Efficient Neural Networks Copy Dragonfly Brains
    
        Boats Should Be Sleek—But Only Up to a Point
    
        A Circuit to Boost Battery Life
    
        No Antenna Could Survive Europa’s Brutal, Radioactive Environment—Until Now
    
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September 2021

        The Scandalous History of the Last Rotor Cipher Machine
    
        Next-Gen Chips Will Be Powered From Below
    
        An Army of Grain-Harvesting Robots Marches Across Russia
    
        This AI Can Spot an Art Forgery
    
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October 2021

        The Turbulent Past and Uncertain Future of Artificial Intelligence
    
        A DIY Calorie Counter More Accurate Than a Smartphone
    
        How Deep Learning Works
    
        How DeepMind Is Reinventing the Robot
    
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November 2021

        The New Supersonic Boom
    
        Subspace Rebuilt the Internet for Real-Time Applications
    
        A New Wildfire Watchdog
    
        The Real Story of Pixar
    
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December 2021

        Can This DIY Rocket Program Send an Astronaut to Space?
    
        What the Well-Dressed Spacecraft Will Be Wearing
    
        A Smart Artificial Pancreas Could Conquer Diabetes
    
        The Femtojoule Promise of Analog AI
    
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