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Top Tech 2022

Technology trends and developments that will make news in 2022

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Top Tech 2022: A Special Report

Preview two dozen exciting technical developments that are in the pipeline for the coming year

03 Jan 2022

1 min read

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Consumer Electronics CES News Magazine Top Tech 2022 Feature January 2022 Special Reports

Digging Into the New QD-OLED TVs

Formerly rival technologies have come together in Samsung displays

04 Aug 2022

5 min read

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Aerospace Magazine January 2022 Top Tech 2022 Feature Computing Special Reports

12 Exciting Engineering Milestones to Look for in 2022

An electric aircraft race, a new dark-matter detector, and a permanent Chinese space station await

30 Dec 2021

7 min read

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Aerospace Magazine Top Tech 2022 January 2022 Feature Special Reports

Drone Startup to Fly Pallets Without Pilots

Dronamics will test a radical new vision of long-range cargo transport in Europe

16 Dec 2021

3 min read

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Magazine January 2022 Top Tech 2022 Feature Special Reports Transportation

Europe Mandates Automatic Emergency Braking

Safety advocates project it could save 4,000 lives per year

24 Dec 2021

3 min read

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Magazine January 2022 Top Tech 2022 Feature Computing Special Reports

Frontier Supercomputer to Usher in Exascale Computing

Oak Ridge National Lab may be the first to reach 1,000,000,000,000,000,000 operations per second

23 Dec 2021

3 min read

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Aerospace Magazine January 2022 Top Tech 2022 Feature Special Reports

NASA’s Space Launch System Will Lift Off

But with rival rockets readying for flight, the value of SLS is murky

26 Dec 2021

7 min read

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Magazine January 2022 Top Tech 2022 Feature Semiconductors Special Reports

Memory Chips That Compute Will Accelerate AI

Samsung could double performance of neural nets with processing-in-memory

22 Dec 2021

4 min read

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Magazine January 2022 Top Tech 2022 Feature Special Reports Consumer Electronics

A Bitcoin Wallet for the Masses

Square simplified credit-card transactions. Now it wants to build cryptocurrency hardware

17 Dec 2021

3 min read

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Magazine Energy Top Tech 2022 January 2022 Feature Special Reports

Magnetic-Confinement Fusion Without the Magnets

Zap Energy’s new Z-pinch fusion reactor promises a simpler approach to an elusive goal

27 Dec 2021

4 min read

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Magazine January 2022 Top Tech 2022 Feature Special Reports Transportation

Should the Cobalt for EVs Come From the Congo or the Seafloor?

The Metals Company’s pilot program raises muddy questions

21 Dec 2021

4 min read

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Climate Tech Magazine Energy Top Tech 2022 January 2022 Feature Special Reports Climate Change

Test of Planet-Cooling Scheme Could Start in 2022

A controversial geoengineering plan aims to spray reflective particles into the stratosphere

19 Dec 2021

9 min read

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Magazine Biomedical Top Tech 2022 January 2022 Feature Special Reports

Worldwide Campaign for Neurorights Notches Its First Win

Chile plans to regulate all neurotech and ban the sale of brain data

18 Dec 2021

7 min read

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Magazine Energy January 2022 Top Tech 2022 Feature Special Reports

China Will Attempt First Carbon-Neutral Winter Olympics

A variety of climate-friendly strategies will be on show, along with the athletes

29 Dec 2021

4 min read

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Magazine Top Tech 2022 Feature January 2022 Robotics Special Reports

A Robot for the Worst Job in the Warehouse

Boston Dynamics’ Stretch can move 800 heavy boxes per hour

28 Dec 2021

4 min read

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