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    • March 2018

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    • Cover Story

      Your Guide to Television’s Quantum-Dot Future

      Move over, OLEDs. Quantum dots will be the next darling of display manufacturers
      22 Feb

    Departments

    • Photo by Division of Work and Industry/NMAH/Smithsonian Institution
      History
      John Deere and the Birth of Precision Agriculture
      28 Feb
    • The Altair 8800 Computer.
      Geek Life
      Build Your Own Altair 8800 Personal Computer
      23 Feb
    • Photo: Joan Cros Garcia/Corbis/Getty Images
      At Work
      The Legal Hazards of Virtual Reality and Augmented Reality Apps
      20 Feb
    • Salesforce Tower in the skyline.
      At Work
      Salesforce Towers Above Adobe, Facebook, and Google in Study of Best Places to Work in Tech
      30 Jan
    • Apple CEO Tim Cook greets customers with employees at an Apple Store on November 3, 2017 in Palo Alto, California.
      At Work
      What Tech Companies Have Been Hiring in Silicon Valley? Here are the Top 20
      18 Jan
    • Prosthesis, a real-life mech or mecha, shown at CES 2018.
      Gadgets
      CES 2018: The Best—and the Craziest—Gadgets of the Show
      12 Jan

    Features

    • Illustration by Mark Montgomery
      Computing
      Computing With Random Pulses Promises to Simplify Circuitry and Save Power
      28 Feb
    • Illustration by Jude Buffum
      Transportation
      Creating Driving Tests for Self-⁠Driving Cars
      27 Feb
    • Enovix 3D Silicon Lithium-ion Battery
      Semiconductors
      How to Build a Safer, More Energy-Dense Lithium-ion Battery
      10 May 2017

    News

    • Photo of the closed U.S. embassy in Cuba.
      Semiconductors
      Finally, a Likely Explanation for the “Sonic Weapon” Used at the U.S. Embassy in Cuba
      1 Mar
    • Illustration: Emily Cooper
      Computing
      Chipmakers Test Ferroelectrics as a Route to Ultralow-Power Chips
      26 Feb
    • Photo: Factum Foundation for Digital Technology in Conservation
      Computing
      Ancient Sculptures Return to Mosul as Digitally Reconstructed Replicas
      23 Feb
    • Photo: Noah Seelam/AFP/Getty Images
      Computing
      Aadhaar, India’s Biometric ID System, Gets Its Day in Court
      21 Feb

    Opinions

    • Illustration: Dan Page
      Telecom
      5G is in Danger of Being Oversold
      27 Feb
    • Photo-illustration: Stuart Bradford
      Aerospace
      Photovoltaics in Satellites
      22 Feb
    • Illustration: Harry Campbell
      At Work
      Engineering in the Twilight of Moore’s Law
      21 Feb
    • Illustration of computer pointer fingers accusing a group, with most considered guilty.
      Computing
      Michigan’s MiDAS Unemployment System: Algorithm Alchemy Created Lead, Not Gold
      24 Jan
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