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August 2022 Issue

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These chips power Frontier past 1,100,000,000,000,000,000 operations per second

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August 2022 Issue

Utrecht leads the world in using EVs for grid storage

Toyota’s Gill Pratt on enhancing independence in old age

Medical training in the robotics age leaves tomorrow's surgeons short on skills

Eavesdropping flourished after WW II, aided by legal loopholes, clever hacks, and “private ears”

OpenAI’s text-to-image generator still struggles with text, science, faces, and bias

These chips power Frontier past 1,100,000,000,000,000,000 operations per second

It took a major redesign for cheap flexible chips to reach their promise

Ultra Safe Nuclear’s radioisotope battery would power orbiting satellites

This system could be used to help robots consume and digest objects

An autonomous farm tractor, photonic amplifiers, and more in this month's Big Picture

Vehicle-to-grid technology adds another layer of complexity to the electric-vehicle transition

Ignore the hype that the world is about to turn vegan

Its space-age world featured flying cars, food replicators, and a 9-hour workweek

A staggering 8 bytes of ferrite-core memory can be yours with the Core64 kit

The lightweight solar-powered drone operates nonstop for months

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