SPECIAL REPORTS
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Life in 2030 Originally published February 2013 A one-hour special from IEEE Spectrum Radio and the National Science Foundation |
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CES 2013: Complete Coverage Originally published January 2013 At the 2013 International Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas, from 8 to 11 January, more than 3000 companies showcase their latest innovations. |
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2013 Tech to Watch Originally published January 2013 Our annual technology survey on the coming 12 months |
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The New Medicine: Hacking Our Biology Originally published September 2012 These stories explore technological advances in medical inventions to enhance and extend life |
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Fastest On Earth Originally published June 2012 To explore what’s fastest on earth we’ve roamed the globe to check out speedy things on wheels, tracks, legs or wings, and in the water. |
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The Last Days of Cash Originally published June 2012 How E-Money Technology is Plugging us into the Digital Economy |
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Top Ten Tech Cars 2012 Originally published April 2012 The internal combustion engine strikes back |
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Dream Jobs 2012 Originally published February 2012 There's nothing textbook about the careers of the 10 engineers profiled in our annual Dream Jobs roundup |
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CES 2012: Complete Coverage Originally published January 2012 IEEE Spectrum senior editor Tekla Perry reports live from Las Vegas |
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Top Tech 2012 Originally published January 2012 IEEE Spectrum's prediction of the tech that will make news this year |
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Fukushima and the Future of Nuclear Power Originally published November 2011 What lessons can the world learn from the nuclear accident at Fukushima Dai-ichi? |
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The Two Faces of Hacking Originally published July 2011 We took 25 of the biggest and best stories and assessed them along two dimensions: innovation and impact |
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Super Socialize Me: The Social Era Of the Web Starts Now Originally published June 2011 And a big, complicated clash will determine whether Google or Facebook dominates it |
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Dream Jobs 2011 Originally published February 2011 If the words "true bliss" along with "job market" evoke snorts of derision, you need to meet these 10 odds-defying technologists. Learn how you, too, can become the envy of your peers |
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CES 2011 Complete coverage from the 2011 Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas, Nevada |
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Top 11 Technologies of the Decade The most powerful technologies take a while to mature. But when they do, they can rapidly retire mainstays that are decades old |
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The Future of Lighting As incandescent light bulbs fade from use, LEDs and compact fluorescents vie to replace them |
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Holiday Gifts 2010 Still don't know what to get for the geek who has everything? |
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Telepresence Our remote controlled robotic future |
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Antarctica: Life on the Ice IEEE Spectrum adventures |
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Water vs. Energy Only radical ideas will prevent the coming clash |
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Engineers of the New Millennium: The Energy Revolution Plug yourself into our special report on energy |
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Top 10 Tech Cars 2010 For at least a decade, carmakers have been professing their deep and abiding interest in electric-drive vehicles whenever possible. But until recently, it wasn’t always clear which of them were really sincere. |
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Dream Jobs 2010 The willingness to jump off an obvious career path, make a sudden change in direction, and, sometimes, take advantage of a stroke of luck landed these 10 technologists their dream jobs. |
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Winners & Losers VII Again we cast flowers and stones at a wide selection of well- and poorly conceived technology projects, all due for major milestones in the coming year. |
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Engineers of the New Millennium: Robots for Real In this special report, we meet some of the world’s most creative minds in robotics to find out how their robots will transform our lives—for real. |
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Global Water Challenge Water is such a basic human need that it takes real ingenuity to find new ways to control, retrieve, and share this critical resource. |
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The Smart Grid Taking the latest in computing and communications technology to make the electrical system more interactive, efficient, and robust is not a new idea. |
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Why Mars, Why Now? It’s been 40 years since Apollo astronauts took humanity’s first baby step into the cosmos. Now it’s time to take the next one. |
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25 Microchips One day a machine will blink into consciousness, but it’s just wishful thinking to believe that people could escape death by uploading their minds. |
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Top 10 Tech Cars of 2009 If necessity really is the mother of invention, then surely the auto industry is on the verge of an era of blinding brilliance. Times are that bad. |
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Dream Jobs 2009 What does it mean to be an engineer? The answer may surprise you. In this year’s Dream Jobs for Engineers report, we look at 10 technologists who love what they do for a living. |
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Winners and Losers 2009 Our past experiences with this annual special issue suggest that some of you are going to go to your computers in the next day or two and compose a little message to us. |
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The R&D Interactive Calculator We know our readers like to get their hands on the raw data and draw their own conclusions.. |
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