Pub Date : 2024-10-04DOI: 10.1109/MSPEC.2024.10705370
Peter Fairley
The wind blowing in from the Taiwan Strait regularly blasts across Changhua Coastal Industrial Park. On this expanse of reclaimed land outside Taichung, Taiwan's second largest city, 80 wind turbines, a pair of gas-fired power plants, and 4.3 square kilometers of solar farms generate electricity for Taiwan's grid. More than 170 wind turbines installed offshore in the strait send more than a gigawatt of power to a hulking, typhoon-ready substation, its circuits primed for more power coming within months. Shiny new transmission towers strung with steel cables lead to a second massive substation, still under construction, which will absorb 2 gigawatts of additional offshore wind power.
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Pub Date : 2024-10-04DOI: 10.1109/MSPEC.2024.10705383
Allison Marsh
On 1 November 1954, the first transistor radio hit store shelves just in time for the holiday shopping season. The Regency TR-1 was advertised as the world's first pocket radio, although at 12.7 by 8.7 by 3.5 centimeters, it required pretty big pockets—literally and figuratively. The radio sold for US $49.95, or more than $580 today, which is coincidentally about what it'll cost you to buy one on eBay. Still, the radio was significantly smaller than any vacuum-tube model.
1954 年 11 月 1 日，第一台晶体管收音机在商店上架，正赶上假日购物季。Regency TR-1 被宣传为世界上第一台袖珍收音机，尽管它的尺寸为 12.7 x 8.7 x 3.5 厘米，但它需要相当大的口袋--无论是字面上还是比喻上。这款收音机的售价为 49.95 美元，相当于现在的 580 多美元，巧合的是，你在 eBay 上买一台也就花了这么多钱。不过，这款收音机还是比任何真空管型号的收音机小得多。
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Pub Date : 2024-10-04DOI: 10.1109/MSPEC.2024.10705377
Tim Kuhlbusch
There's nothing like particle physics to make you aware that we exist in an endless three-dimensional pinball game. All around us, subatomic particles arc, collide, and barrel along with merry abandon. Some originate within our own bodies, others come from the far ends of the cosmos. But detecting this invisible tumult requires equipment, which can be costly. I wanted to create a way to detect at least some of the pinballs for less than US $15.
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Pub Date : 2024-10-04DOI: 10.1109/MSPEC.2024.10705384
Harry Goldstein
The majority of the world's advanced logic chips are made in Taiwan, and most of those are made by one company: Taiwan Semi-conductor Manufacturing Co. (TSMC). While it seems risky for companies like Nvidia, Apple, and Google to depend so much on one supplier, for Taiwan's leaders, that's a feature, not a bug.
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Pub Date : 2024-10-04DOI: 10.1109/MSPEC.2024.10705373
Tariq Samad;Gus Gaynor
As you begin your professional career, freshly armed with an engineering degree, your initial roles and responsibilities are likely to revolve around what you learned at school. If you do well in your job, you're apt to be promoted and gain responsibilities, such as managing projects, interacting with other departments, making presentations to management, and meeting with customers. You will probably also acquire a general understanding of how your company and the business world work.
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Pub Date : 2024-10-04DOI: 10.1109/MSPEC.2024.10705368
Stephen Cass
The Media Archaeology Lab is one of the largest public collections in the world of obsolete, yet functional, technology. Located on the University of Colorado Boulder campus, the MAL is where you can watch a magic lantern show, play Star Castle on a Vectrex games console, or check out the weather on an Atari 800 via Fujinet. IEEE Spectrum spoke to managing director Libi Rose about the MAL's mission and her role in keeping all that obsolete tech functional, so that people of today can experience the media of the past.
媒体考古实验室是世界上最大的废弃但实用的技术公共收藏馆之一。MAL 位于科罗拉多大学博尔德校区，在这里你可以观看魔术灯笼表演，在 Vectrex 游戏机上玩《星际城堡》，或者通过 Fujinet 在雅达利 800 上查看天气。IEEE Spectrum 采访了 MAL 的总经理 Libi Rose，了解了 MAL 的使命以及她在保持这些过时技术的功能性方面所扮演的角色，以便今天的人们可以体验过去的媒体。
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Pub Date : 2024-10-04DOI: 10.1109/MSPEC.2024.10705380
Alfred Poor
A transparent television might seem like magic, but both LG and Samsung demonstrated such displays this past January in Las Vegas at CES 2024. And those large transparent TVs, which attracted countless spectators peeking through video images dancing on their screens, were showstoppers.
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Pub Date : 2024-10-04DOI: 10.1109/MSPEC.2024.10705385
Bryan Clark
AGAINST ALL ODDS, Ukraine is still standing more than two and a half years after Russia's massive 2022 invasion. Of course, hundreds of billions of dollars in Western support as well as Russian errors have helped immensely, but it would be a mistake to overlook Ukraine's creative use of new technologies, particularly drones. While uncrewed aerial vehicles have grabbed most of the attention, it is naval drones that could be the key to bringing Russian president Vladimir Putin to the negotiating table.
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