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2026

January 2026

        Grid-Scale Bubble Batteries Will Soon Be Everywhere
    
        Brain Chips and Foldable iPhones: New Tech in 2026
    
        Porsche Debuts Inductive Charging for Cayenne EV
    
        New Device Could Keep Weight Off After GLP-1 Drugs
    
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February 2026

        The Quest to Build a Radio Telescope That Can Hear the Cosmic Dark Ages
    
        How Astronomers Found 6,000 Exoplanets (and Counting)
    
        How Norway Achieved Near-Total EV Adoption
    
        These Hearing Aids Will Tune in to Your Brain
    
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March 2026

        AI Hunts for the Next Big Thing in Physics
    
        The Millisecond That Could Change Cancer Treatment
    
        AI’s Math Tricks Don’t Work for Scientific Computing
    
        This $5,200 Conductive Suit Makes Power Line Work Safer
    
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April 2026

        How to Build the World's Largest Data Center
    
        Facial Recognition Errors Affect Millions Globally
    
        Autonomous Drones Are Changing Warfare
    
        Designing the Perfect EV Sound Is Hard
    
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May 2026

        What Exoskeletons Learned From One Relentless User
    
        What Makes eVTOL Motors Different Than EV Motors?
    
        Stealth Signals Are Bypassing Iran’s Internet Blackout
    
        What It’s Like to Live With an Experimental Brain Implant
    
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June 2026

        Sardinia’s Ancient Reasons for Rejecting a Clean Energy Future
    
        What It Takes to Preserve Floppy Disks
    
        Striking New Views of the First Atomic Bomb Test
    
        Better Hardware Could Turn Zeros into AI Heroes
    
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July 2026

        Why Orbital Data Centers Are Harder Than Silicon Valley Thinks
    
        The Lab Mistake That Might Revolutionize Computing
    
        AI Is Designing Radio Chips That Humans Couldn’t Even Imagine
    
        Why the U.S. Uses Only Half of Its Grid Capacity
    
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2025

January 2025

        NATO’s Emergency Plan for an Orbital Backup Internet
    
        Quiz: What Happened to Previous Top Tech Predictions?
    
        As EV Sales Stall, Plug-In Hybrids Get a Reboot
    
        This Year, RISC-V Laptops Really Arrive
    
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February 2025

        This Essential Element of the Power Grid Is in Critically Short Supply
    
        A Spy Satellite You’ve Never Heard of Helped Win the Cold War
    
        AI Is Driving India’s Next Agricultural Revolution
    
        Disabling a Nuclear Weapon in Midflight
    
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March 2025

        These Graphene Tattoos Are Actually Biosensors
    
        It’s Time To Rethink 6G
    
        The Lost Story of Alan Turing’s Secret “Delilah” Project
    
        Touchscreens Are Out, and Tactile Controls Are Back
    
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April 2025

        The Tiny Star Explosions Powering Moore’s Law
    
        Why the World is Suddenly Watching Azerbaijan's Energy Plans
    
        We’re Charging Our Cars Wrong
    
        Asimov’s Laws of Robotics Need an Update for AI
    
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May 2025

        Henry Samueli: The Broadband Boss
    
        This Chart Might Keep You From Worrying About AI’s Energy Use
    
        AI Goes Fishing
    
        Four Ways Engineers Are Trying to Break Physics
    
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June 2025

        A Self-Balancing Exoskeleton Strides Toward Market
    
        Giving Voice to Nonspeaking Autism
    
        These Companies Were the Patent Powerhouses of 2024
    
        AMD Takes Holistic Approach to AI Coding Copilots
    
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July 2025

        How the Rubin Observatory Will Reinvent Astronomy
    
        The Surprising Speed of LLM Progress
    
        Ultrasound Tackles Chronic Inflammation
    
        7 New Technologies at Airports This Summer
    
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August 2025

        AI Enhances Deep Brain Stimulation
    
        What the CHIPS Act Looks Like Now
    
        How JPEG Became the Web’s Image Standard
    
        Asteroid Defense: The Real-World Impact of NASA's DART Mission
    
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September 2025

        In Nigeria, Why Isn’t Broadband Everywhere?
    
        How 6G Wireless Networks Will Use Drones in the Sky
    
        The Unlikely Revival of Nuclear Batteries
    
        Hardware Access Could Fuel African Innovation
    
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October 2025

        If We Want Bigger Wind Turbines, We’re Gonna Need Bigger Airplanes
    
        11 Oddball Technology Records You Probably Didn’t Know
    
        The Quest to Sequence the Genomes of Everything
    
        Generative AI's Energy Needs Are Reshaping Our World
    
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November 2025

        Future Chips Will Be Hotter Than Ever
    
        High-Tech Weather Balloons Provide Data to Weather AI
    
        Diamond Blankets Will Keep Future Chips Cool
    
        You Can Cool Chips With Lasers?!?!
    
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December 2025

        Hyundai's Metaplant Is Transforming EV Production
    
        Trillions Spent and Big Software Projects Are Still Failing
    
        Your Laptop Isn’t Ready for LLMs. Yet.
    
        Why Scientists Are Hunting Moths in the Italian Alps
    
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2024

January 2024

        2024 Will Be an Exciting Year in Tech
    
        11 Intriguing Engineering Milestones to Look for in 2024
    
        Humanoid Robots Are Getting to Work
    
        Wi-Fi 7 Signals the Industry’s New Priority: Stability
    
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February 2024

        Can Flow Batteries Finally Beat Lithium?
    
        Why the AI Boom is a Windfall for Tiny Anguilla
    
        The Case for Nuclear Cargo Ships
    
        The Global Project to Make a General Robotic Brain
    
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March 2024

        Science Fiction Short: Hijack
    
        What Is CMOS 2.0?
    
        The Quest for a DNA Data Drive
    
        Smartphone Screens Are About to Become Speakers
    
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April 2024

        We Need to Decarbonize Software
    
        How to Boot Up a New Engineering Program
    
        Inkjets Are for More Than Just Printing
    
        How Ultrasound Became Ultra Small
    
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May 2024

        Robert Kahn: The Great Interconnector
    
        Ukraine Is Riddled With Land Mines. Drones and AI Can Help
    
        Why One Man Spent 12 Years Fighting Robocalls
    
        The Tiny Ultrabright Laser that Can Melt Steel
    
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June 2024

        A Skeptic’s Take on Beaming Power to Earth from Space
    
        The Forgotten History of Chinese Keyboards
    
        Do We Dare Use Generative AI for Mental Health?
    
        How to EMP-Proof a Building
    
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July 2024

        How We’ll Reach a 1 Trillion Transistor GPU
    
        A Clean, Green Way to Recycle Solar Panels
    
        Is the Future of Moore’s Law in a Particle Accelerator?
    
        Apps Put a Psychiatrist in Your Pocket
    
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August 2024

        A Trillion Rogue Planets and Not One Sun to Shine on Them
    
        How India Is Starting a Chip Industry From Scratch
    
        How to Build EV Motors Without Rare Earth Elements
    
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September 2024

        IBM’s Big Bet on the Quantum-Centric Supercomputer
    
        How the Designer of the First Hydrogen Bomb Got the Gig
    
        Hybrid Bonding Plays Starring Role in 3D Chips
    
        Engineering the First Fitbit: The Inside Story
    
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October 2024

        TSMC’s Energy Demand Drives Taiwan’s Geopolitical Future
    
        What It Takes To Let People Play With the Past
    
        Challengers Are Coming for Nvidia’s Crown
    
        How LG and Samsung Are Making TV Screens Disappear
    
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November 2024

        Why the Art of Invention Is Always Being Reinvented
    
        Let’s Build the AI Robots of Our Sci-Fi Dreams
    
        The AI Boom Rests on Billions of Tonnes of Concrete
    
        Nuclear Fusion’s New Idea: An Off-the-Shelf Stellarator
    
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December 2024

        Will Even the Most Advanced Subs Have Nowhere to Hide?
    
        Zen and the Art of Aibo Engineering
    
        5 Questions for Robotics Legend Ruzena Bajcsy
    
        The Forgotten Story of How IBM Invented the Automated Fab
    
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2023

January 2023

        Top Tech 2023: A Special Report
    
        13 Intriguing Engineering Milestones to Look for in 2023
    
        Finally, an eVTOL You Can Buy (Soon)
    
        China’s New Breeder Reactors May Produce More Than Just Watts
    
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February 2023

        The Inner Beauty of Basic Electronics
    
        How Police Exploited the Capitol Riot’s Digital Records
    
        Who Really Invented the Thumb Drive?
    
        This Implant Turns Brain Waves Into Words
    
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March 2023

        Roboticists Want to Give You a Third Arm
    
        50 Years Later, We’re Still Living in the Xerox Alto’s World
    
        Aalyria’s Lasers and Routers Could Close the Digital Divide
    
        This New Breed of Generator Can Run on Almost Any Fuel
    
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April 2023

        How an Electrical Engineer Solved Australia’s Most Famous Cold Case
    
        The EV Transition Is Harder Than Anyone Thinks
    
        Gallium Nitride and Silicon Carbide Fight for Green Tech Domination
    
        “Web3 Is Going Just Great” Creator On Why It Isn’t
    
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May 2023

        Meet Mr. Internet: Vint Cerf
    
        Stable Attribution Identifies the Art Behind AI Images
    
        Your Robotic Avatar Is Almost Ready
    
        4 Ways to Put Lasers on Silicon
    
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June 2023

        This AI Hunts for Hidden Hoards of Battery Metals
    
        The Strange Story of the Teens Behind the Mirai Botnet
    
        U.S. Universities Are Building a New Semiconductor Workforce
    
        Flight Simulator Gave Birth to 3D Video-Game Graphics
    
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July 2023

        Flat Lenses Made of Nanostructures Transform Tiny Cameras and Projectors
    
        Will Robots Triumph over World Cup Winners by 2050?
    
        What AMD Learned From Its Big Chiplet Push
    
        A Critical Look at AI-Generated Software
    
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August 2023

        Can Neural Stimulation Zap Addiction?
    
        Boston Dynamics’ Founder on the Future of Robotics
    
        Who Really Invented the Rechargeable Lithium-Ion Battery?
    
        This Fusion Reactor Is Held Together With Tape
    
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September 2023

        This Machine Could Keep Moore’s Law on Track
    
        Superhuman Speed: How Autonomous Drones Beat the Best Human Racers
    
        Why Today’s Chatbots Are Weird, Argumentative, and Wrong
    
        Lidar on a Chip Puts Self-Driving Cars in the Fast Lane
    
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October 2023

        Studying Climate Change With an Ice Radar Drone
    
        The Practical Power of Fusing Photons
    
        Why the Next Microgrids Will Be Well Connected
    
        Assistive Tech at the End of Sight
    
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November 2023

        This Robot Could Be the Key to Empowering People With Disabilities
    
        Why Power a Whisky Still with Green Hydrogen?
    
        How Generative AI Helped Me Imagine a Better Robot
    
        The Creepy New Digital Afterlife Industry
    
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December 2023

        A Bold New Plan for Preserving Online Privacy and Security
    
        Bezos Bucks? Get Ready for Corporate Digital Currency
    
        Generating Power on Earth From the Coldness of Deep Space
    
        What to Do When the Ghost in the Machine Is You
    
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2022

January 2022

        Top Tech 2022: A Special Report
    
        Digging Into the New QD-OLED TVs
    
        12 Exciting Engineering Milestones to Look for in 2022
    
        China Will Attempt First Carbon-Neutral Winter Olympics
    
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February 2022

        Psyche: NASA Mission to a Metal World
    
        How to Prevent Blackouts by Packetizing the Power Grid
    
        Letting Robocars See Around Corners
    
        How E Ink Developed Full-Color e-Paper
    
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March 2022

        Their Bionic Eyes Are Now Obsolete and Unsupported
    
        NASA’s New Shortcut to Fusion Power
    
        Why We Built a Neuromorphic Robot to Play Foosball
    
        Satellite Imagery for Everyone
    
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April 2022

        Andrew Ng: Unbiggen AI
    
        The Vacuum Tube’s Forgotten Rival
    
        This Axial-Flux Motor With a PCB Stator Is Ripe for an Electrified World
    
        A DIY Tracker Tough Enough for the Arctic
    
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May 2022

        Inside DARPA’s Subterranean Challenge
    
        The X-Ray Tech That Reveals Chip Designs
    
        Search for Buried Treasure With This DIY Magnetometer
    
        Tesla Inside: The Ultimate Vintage Land Rover Retrofit
    
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June 2022

        A Quantum of Sensing—Atomic Scale Bolsters New Sensor Boom
    
        Eavesdropping on the Brain With 10,000 Electrodes
    
        Practical Power Beaming Gets Real
    
        Testing Products for Consumer Reports
    
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July 2022

        AI-Guided Robots Are Ready to Sort Your Recyclables
    
        Quantum Error Correction: Time to Make It Work
    
        How to Hasten India’s Transition Away From Coal
    
        DIY Gamma-Ray Spectroscopy with a Raspberry Pi Pico
    
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August 2022

        This Dutch City Is Road-Testing Vehicle-to-Grid Tech
    
        How Robots Can Help Us Act and Feel Younger
    
        This Startup Builds USVs That Collect Data About Oceans
    
        Today’s Robotic Surgery Turns Surgical Trainees Into Spectators
    
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September 2022

        Inside the Universe Machine: The Webb Space Telescope’s Staggering Vision
    
        Building a Fleet of Personal EVs in Kenya
    
        The Spectacular Collapse of CryptoKitties, the First Big Blockchain Game
    
        Restoring Hearing With Beams of Light
    
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October 2022

        The Bionic-Hand Arms Race
    
        Ensuring Underwater Robots Survive in Hot Tropical Waters
    
        Deep Learning Could Bring the Concert Experience Home
    
        The Godfather of South Korea’s Chip Industry
    
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November 2022

        With This Bionic Nose, COVID Survivors May Smell the Roses Again
    
        Craig Partridge Is Still Working to Improve Internet Traffic
    
        Why the Internet Needs the InterPlanetary File System
    
        Metamaterials Could Solve One of 6G’s Big Problems
    
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December 2022

        The Transistor at 75
    
        The Ultimate Transistor Timeline
    
        The State of the Transistor in 3 Charts
    
        The Transistor of 2047: Expert Predictions
    
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2021

January 2021

        Special Report: Top Tech 2021
    
        Deep Learning at the Speed of Light
    
        10 Exciting Engineering Milestones to Look for in 2021
    
        At Last, First Light for the James Webb Space Telescope Nears
    
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February 2021

        Brain Implants and Wearables Let Paralyzed People Move Again
    
        Breakthrough Listen Is Searching a Million Stars for One Sign of Intelligent Life
    
        FAA Files Reveal a Surprising Threat to Airline Safety: the U.S. Military's GPS Tests
    
        It’s Too Easy to Hide Bias in Deep-Learning Systems
    
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March 2021

        Atomically Precise Sensors Could Detect Another Earth
    
        How To Build a Radio That Ignores Its Own Transmissions
    
        The Algorithms That Make Instacart Roll
    
        Why the Shipping Industry Is Betting Big on Ammonia
    
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April 2021

        The Ultimate Incubator: The Brave New World of Bionic Babies
    
        Waiting for Quantum Computing? Try Probabilistic Computing
    
        2021 Top 10 Tech Cars 
    
        2021’s Top Ten Tech Cars: Porsche 911 Turbo S
    
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May 2021

        Building an AI That Feels
    
        The Radio We Could Send to Hell
    
        Hack an Analog TV Into a Geek TV
    
        The Cellular Industry’s Clash Over the Movement to Remake Networks
    
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June 2021

        Inovio’s Electrical Device Zaps a COVID-19 Vaccine Into the Body
    
        How Nanotech Can Foil Counterfeiters
    
        Skin Displays Will Give Wearables Their Independence
    
        Off-Grid Solar’s Killer App
    
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July 2021

        Cerebras’ New Monster AI Chip Adds 1.4 Trillion Transistors
    
        The Future of Deep Learning Is Photonic
    
        Engineers: You Can Disrupt Climate Change
    
        Why the Sapphire Clock Outshines Even the Best Atomic Clocks
    
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August 2021

        Fast, Efficient Neural Networks Copy Dragonfly Brains
    
        Boats Should Be Sleek—But Only Up to a Point
    
        A Circuit to Boost Battery Life
    
        No Antenna Could Survive Europa’s Brutal, Radioactive Environment—Until Now
    
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September 2021

        The Scandalous History of the Last Rotor Cipher Machine
    
        Next-Gen Chips Will Be Powered From Below
    
        An Army of Grain-Harvesting Robots Marches Across Russia
    
        This AI Can Spot an Art Forgery
    
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October 2021

        The Turbulent Past and Uncertain Future of Artificial Intelligence
    
        A DIY Calorie Counter More Accurate Than a Smartphone
    
        How Deep Learning Works
    
        How DeepMind Is Reinventing the Robot
    
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November 2021

        The New Supersonic Boom
    
        Subspace Rebuilt the Internet for Real-Time Applications
    
        A New Wildfire Watchdog
    
        The Real Story of Pixar
    
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December 2021

        Can This DIY Rocket Program Send an Astronaut to Space?
    
        What the Well-Dressed Spacecraft Will Be Wearing
    
        A Smart Artificial Pancreas Could Conquer Diabetes
    
        The Femtojoule Promise of Analog AI
    
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2020

January 2020
10 Tantalizing Tech Milestones to Look for in 2020Will China Attain Exascale Supercomputing in 2020?4 Missions Will Search the Martian Atmosphere and Soil for Signs of LifeCerebras’s Giant Chip Will Smash Deep Learning’s Speed Barrier
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February 2020
The Inside Story of the First Picture of a Black Hole5 Big Ideas for Making Fusion Power a RealityBuilding an Orbiting Internet Just for SatellitesComing Soon to a Processor Near You: Atom-Thick Transistors
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March 2020
Move Over, CMOS: Here Come Snapshots by Quantum DotsWhen Artists, Engineers, and PepsiCo Collaborated, Then Clashed at the 1970 World’s FairAutonomous Vehicles Should Start Small, Go SlowAI and Economic Productivity: Expect Evolution, Not Revolution
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April 2020
2020 Top 10 High Tech CarsUpgraded Google Glass Helps Autistic Kids “See” EmotionsHere’s a Blueprint for a Practical Quantum ComputerData Centers Are Plagued by Wasteful Computing. Game Theory Could Help
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May 2020
A Glass Nightmare: Cleaning Up the Cold War’s Nuclear Legacy at HanfordThis AI Poet Mastered Rhythm, Rhyme, and Natural Language to Write Like ShakespeareIn the Future, AIs—Not Humans—Will Design Our Wireless SignalsHow the Father of FinFETs Helped Save Moore’s Law
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June 2020
Can Cargo-Carrying Drones Jump Over Air Freight’s Logistical Logjams?How Control Theory Can Help Us Control COVID-19Why Oil-Spill Tech Is So Primitive and How One Man Is Trying to Fix ItThe Short, Strange Life of the First Friendly Robot
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July 2020
Why Sweat Will Power Your Next WearableNo Propeller? No Problem. This Blimp Flies on Buoyancy AloneFuture Baggage Scanners Will Tell Us What Things Are Made OfThe Software-Defined Power Grid Is Here
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August 2020
This AI Can See the Forest and the TreesToday’s Internet Still Relies on an ARPANET-Era Protocol: The Request for CommentsCognitive Radios Will Go Where No Deep-Space Mission Has Gone BeforeA Better Way to Measure Progress in Semiconductors
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September 2020
Inside the Hidden World of Legacy IT SystemsSelf-Driving Cars Learn to Read the Body Language of People on the StreetThree Ways to Hack a Printed Circuit BoardWith Ultralight Lithium-Sulfur Batteries, Electric Airplanes Could Finally Take Off
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October 2020
Here’s How We Prepare for the Next PandemicHow Robots Became Essential Workers in the COVID-19 ResponseWhat AI Can–and Can’t–Do in the Race for a Coronavirus VaccineCan AI and Automation Deliver a COVID-19 Antiviral While It Still Matters?
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November 2020
From Foldable Phones to Stretchy ScreensThe 11 Greatest Vacuum Tubes You’ve Never Heard OfSpotting Mystery Methane Leaks From SpaceBreaking the Latency Barrier
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December 2020
Russia, China, the U.S.: Who Will Win the Hypersonic Arms Race?GM Opens Up a New Front in Its Battle With Tesla: BatteriesTurning the Body Into a WireTomorrow's Power Grid Will Be Autonomous
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2019

January 2019
Flying Cars, Bullet Trains, and Moon Shots: 2019’s Top Tech Quick HitsTo Boost Lithium-Ion Battery Capacity by up to 70%, Add SiliconLasers vs. Microwaves: The Billion-Dollar Bet on the Future of Magnetic StorageMusk vs. Bezos: The Battle of the Space Billionaires Heats Up
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February 2019
VR for Your Ears: Dynamic 3D Audio Is Coming SoonA Smart Stethoscope Puts AI in Medics’ EarsMayhem, the Machine That Finds Software Vulnerabilities, Then Patches ThemTata Communications’ Countrywide Internet of Things Will Manage the Chaos in India’s Booming Cities
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March 2019
Building Robots That Can Go Where We GoHow the Spectre and Meltdown Hacks Really WorkedChina’s Ambitious Plan to Build the World’s Biggest SupergridThe Case Against Quantum Computing
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April 2019
2019’s Top 10 Tech CarsHow IBM Watson Overpromised and Underdelivered on AI Health Care2019’s Top 10 Tech Cars: Porsche 911 GT3 Cup CarThe Ultimate in Personalized Medicine: Your Body on a Chip
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May 2019
In the Air With Zipline’s Medical Delivery DronesHearables Will Monitor Your Brain and Body to Augment Your LifeHow the Parker Solar Probe Survives Close Encounters With the SunKurt Petersen, 2019 IEEE Medal of Honor Recipient, Is Mr. MEMS
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June 2019
If DARPA Has Its Way, AI Will Rule the Wireless SpectrumHousehold Radar Can See Through Walls and Knows How You’re FeelingHuman Reflexes Help MIT’s HERMES Rescue Robot Keep Its FootingThe Italian Computer: Olivetti’s ELEA 9003 Was a Study in Elegant, Ergonomic Design
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July 2019
The Great Moon RushThree Steps to a Moon BaseLunar Pioneers Will Use Lasers to Phone HomeRovers Will Unroll a Telescope on the Moon’s Far Side
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August 2019
Meet Aquanaut, the Underwater TransformerThe Nanosheet Transistor Is the Next (and Maybe Last) Step in Moore’s LawHappiness Is a Hybrid-Electric FerryA Half Century Ago, Better Transistors and Switching Regulators Revolutionized the Design of Computer Power Supplies
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September 2019
This Maglev Heart Could Keep Cardiac Patients AliveHow to Teach an Iris Scanner That the Eye It’s Looking at Is DeadPorsche Claims It Can Double Tesla’s Fast-Charging RateDetecting Fake Pills With Nuclear Quadrupole Resonance
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October 2019
Smart Sleeve Tells Baseball Pitchers When to Get Off the MoundMany Experts Say We Shouldn’t Worry About Superintelligent AI. They’re WrongThis Inside-Out Motor for EVs Is Power Dense and (Finally) PracticalGoodbye, Motherboard. Hello, Silicon-Interconnect Fabric
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November 2019
A Retired JPL Engineer’s Journey: From Space Probes to Carbon-Neutral FarmingHow to Harden Puerto Rico’s Grid Against HurricanesThe World’s Largest 3D Metal Printer Is Churning Out RocketsQuantum Computing Gets a Boost From AI and Crowdsourcing
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December 2019
How Boston Dynamics Is Redefining Robot AgilityHow Your Phone Company Aims to Stop RobocallsSnotBot Drone Swoops Over Blowholes to Track Whale HealthSelf-Driving Cars Learn About Road Hazards Through Augmented Reality
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2018

January 2018
Bats, Blimps, and Giant Camera Chips: 2018’s Top Tech Quick HitsThis AI Hunts PoachersWith the Summit Supercomputer, U.S. Could Retake Computing’s Top SpotYour Next T-Shirt Will Be Made by a Robot
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February 2018
New Antennas Will Take CubeSats to Mars and BeyondHans Peter Luhn and the Birth of the Hashing AlgorithmThe Dawn of Solar WindowsNot Your Father’s Analog Computer
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March 2018
Your Guide to Television’s Quantum-Dot FutureComputing With Random Pulses Promises to Simplify Circuitry and Save PowerCreating Driving Tests for Self-⁠Driving CarsHow to Build a Safer, More Energy-Dense Lithium-ion Battery
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April 2018
2018’s Top 10 Tech Cars2018’s Top 10 Tech Cars: Tesla Model 3Fiber Lasers Mean Ray Guns Are ComingQuantum Computers Strive to Break Out of the Lab
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May 2018
Exabytes in a Test Tube: The Case for DNA Data StorageZunum Aero’s Hybrid Electric Airplane Aims To Rejuvenate Regional TravelWhy Your GPS Receiver Isn’t Bigger Than a BreadboxRebuilding Puerto Rico’s Power Grid: The Inside Story
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June 2018
Can Technology Reverse Climate Change?A Critical Look at Claims for Green TechnologiesThe Race to Make a Great Fake SteakTerraPower’s Nuclear Reactor Could Power the 21st Century
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July 2018
The Nixie Tube Story: The Neon Display Tech That Engineers Can’t QuitThe Future of Cybersecurity Is the Quantum Random Number GeneratorProtean Electric’s In-Wheel Motors Could Make EVs More EfficientExploding E-Cigarettes Are a Growing Danger to Public Health
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August 2018
Mazda’s New Skyactiv-X Engine Gives New Life to Internal CombustionA View to the CloudThe Troubled Quest for the Superconducting Wind TurbineNASA Remakes the Airplane Wing With Electric Propulsion and a Whole Lot of Propellers
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September 2018
Why the Future of Data Storage is (Still) Magnetic TapeSilicon Photonics Stumbles at the Last MeterLess Fire, More Power: The Secret to Safer Lithium-Ion BatteriesThe Desperate Quest for Genomic Compression Algorithms
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October 2018
How Vehicle-to-Vehicle Communication Could Replace Traffic Lights and Shorten CommutesHow Programmable Calculators and a Sci-Fi Story Brought Soviet Teens Into the Digital AgeAI Could Provide Moment-by-Moment Nursing for a Hospital’s Sickest PatientsCarnegie Mellon is Saving Old Software from Oblivion
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November 2018
How NASA Will Use Robots to Create Rocket Fuel From Martian SoilThe Rodney Brooks Rules for Predicting a Technology’s Commercial SuccessBuilding Smartphone Antennas That Play Nice TogetherHow Political Campaigns Weaponize Social Media Bots
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December 2018
The First Frontier for Medical AI Is the Pathology LabTo Crack the Toughest Optimization Problems, Just Add LasersThe Internet of Disposable Things Will Be Made of Paper and Plastic SensorsThe Trouble With Trusting AI to Interpret Police Body-Cam Video
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2017

January 2017
Autonomous Air Taxis Will Take Off in 2017, but Won’t Go FarIntel Finds Moore’s Law’s Next Step at 10 NanometersExpect Deeper and Cheaper Machine LearningCompletely Artificial Hearts: Coming to a Chest Cavity Near You
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February 2017
Forget Autonomous Cars—Autonomous Ships Are Almost HereInnovative Direct-Current Microgrids to Solve India’s Power WoesBeyond Second Life: Philip Rosedale’s Gutsy Plan for a New Virtual-Reality EmpireWhy the Automotive Future Will Be Dominated by Fuel Cells
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March 2017
Deep Learning Reinvents the Hearing AidInside DARPA’s Mission to Send a Repair Robot to Geosynchronous OrbitWant an Energy-Efficient Data Center? Build It UnderwaterRobot Octopus Points the Way to Soft Robotics With Eight Wiggly Arms
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April 2017
2017’s Top Ten Tech CarsNanogrids, Microgrids, and Big Data: The Future of the Power GridA Better Way to Organize the Internet: Content-Centric NetworkingThe Bunny, the Witch, and the War Room
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May 2017
The Lost Picture Show: Hollywood Archivists Can’t Outpace ObsolescenceAI Medicine Comes to Africa’s Rural ClinicsInvasion of the Hardware Snatchers: Cloned Electronics Pollute the MarketKees Immink: The Man Who Put Compact Discs on Track
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June 2017
The Benefits of Building an Artificial BrainHuman-Level AI Is Right Around the Corner—or Hundreds of Years AwayNeuromorphic Chips Are Destined for Deep Learning—or ObscurityCan We Quantify Machine Consciousness?
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July 2017
A Software Shrink: Apps and Wearables Could Usher In an Era of Digital PsychiatrySmart Transformers Will Make the Grid Cleaner and More FlexibleShut Up About the Batteries: The Key to a Better Electric Car Is a Lighter MotorMinitel: The Online World France Built Before the Web
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August 2017
Is There a Giant Planet Lurking Beyond Pluto?The Big Problem With Self-Driving Cars Is PeopleSmart Contact Lenses and Eye Implants Will Give Doctors Medical InsightsLet’s Stop Using Ankle Bracelets to Monitor Offenders
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September 2017
Cheaper, Lighter, Quieter: The Electrification of Flight Is at HandHow We Won Gold in the Cyborg Olympics’ Brain RaceWhen Disaster Strikes, Flying Cell Towers Could Aid Search and RescueThe Future of Computing Depends on Making It Reversible
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October 2017
Blockchains: How They Work and Why They’ll Change the WorldWall Street Firms to Move Trillions to Blockchains in 2018The Ridiculous Amount of Energy It Takes to Run BitcoinHow Blockchains Work
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November 2017
Why We Must Fight for the Right to Repair Our ElectronicsThe Improbable Origins of PowerPointIt’s Big and Long-Lived, and It Won’t Catch Fire: The Vanadium Redox-⁠Flow BatteryTo Secure the Internet of Things, We Must Build It Out of “Patchable” Hardware
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December 2017
Far From Radio Interference, the Square Kilometre Array Takes Root in South Africa and the Australian Outback109 Microwave Towers Bring the Internet to Remote Alaska VillagesTo Build the World’s Smallest Atomic Clock, Trap a Nitrogen Atom in a Carbon CageWebAssembly Will Finally Let You Run High-Performance Applications in Your Browser
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2016

January 2016
Get Ready for the World’s First Cyborg OlympicsDNA Manufacturing Enters the Age of Mass ProductionJibo Is as Good as Social Robots Get. But Is That Good Enough?$100 Million Breakthrough Listen Initiative Starts Searching for E.T.
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February 2016
Self-Driving Cars Will Be Ready Before Our Laws AreA Tesla in Every Garage? Not So FastThe Neural Network That RemembersIs Keck’s Law Coming to an End?
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March 2016
Next-Gen Sensors Make Golf Clubs, Tennis Rackets, and Baseball Bats Smarter Than EverAn Electric Car Battery That Will Get You From Paris to Brussels and BackWill the NSA Finally Build Its Superconducting Spy Computer?How To Kill A Supercomputer: Dirty Power, Cosmic Rays, and Bad Solder
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April 2016
2016’s Top Ten Tech Cars2016's Top Ten Tech Cars: Ferrari 488 SpiderLinux at 25: Q&A With Linus TorvaldsLondon’s Crossrail Is a $21 Billion Test of Virtual Modeling
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May 2016
Creating a Prosthetic Hand That Can FeelEngineers to the Rescue! The Ultrasonic Mission to Save the Ganges River DolphinFighting Today’s Targeted Email ScamsDavid Forney: The Man Who Launched a Million Modems
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June 2016
Can We Trust Robots?Do We Want Robot Warriors to Decide Who Lives or Dies?Would You Trust a Robot Surgeon to Operate on You?Can You Program Ethics Into a Self-Driving Car?
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July 2016
Do Police Body Cameras Really Work?How We’ll Put a Carbon Nanotube Computer in Your HandFull-Duplex Chip Will Create a Wireless Bandwidth BonanzaWhy Wi-Fi Stinks—and How to Fix It
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August 2016
Protecting GPS From Spoofers Is Critical to the Future of NavigationTwisted Light Could Dramatically Boost Data RatesThe Man Who Invented Intelligent Traffic Control a Century Too EarlyWhat 5G Engineers Can Learn from Radio Interference’s Troubled Past
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September 2016
Future Airplanes Will Fly On Twistable WingsThe Surprising Story of the First MicroprocessorsMalawi and South Africa Pioneer Unused TV Frequencies for Rural BroadbandOlympic Athletes Are Electrifying Their Brains, and You Can Too
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October 2016
How a Robot Football Player Will Prevent ConcussionsAfter the IC: Jack Kilby’s Solar MisadventureThe 2017 Acura NSX: A Hybrid SupercarLED Streetlights Are Giving Neighborhoods the Blues
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November 2016
Inside the Development of Light, the Tiny Digital Camera That Outperforms DSLRsLeading Chipmakers Eye EUV Lithography to Save Moore’s LawFor Racing Glory, Students Built a Mountain-Busting Electric MotorcycleSocial Media’s Dial-Up Ancestor: The Bulletin Board System
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December 2016
Lights for the Enlightened: An Engineering Trek in the HimalayasGermanium Can Take Transistors Where Silicon Can’tNeuroscientists Wirelessly Control the Brain of a Scampering Lab MouseBeyond Touch: Tomorrow’s Devices Will Use MEMS Ultrasound to Hear Your Gestures
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2015

January 2015
How Aldebaran Robotics Built Its Friendly Humanoid Robot, PepperProject Ara: Google Wants Your Phone to Go to PiecesTopaz Turns On 9 Million Solar PanelsBringing HIV Labs by Backpack to Rural Africa
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February 2015
Smart Neural Stimulators Listen to the BodyNet Neutrality's Technical TroublesInnovation Magazine and the Birth of a BuzzwordLife as a Bionic Woman
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March 2015
Eben Upton: The Raspberry Pi PioneerManuela Veloso: RoboCup’s ChampionA Web of Sensors Enfolds an Entire Forest to Uncover Clues to Climate ChangeHow to Build a Safer Internet of Things
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April 2015
The Multiple Lives of Moore’s LawMoore’s Law MilestonesGraphic: Transistor Production Has Reached Astronomical ScalesGordon Moore: The Man Whose Name Means Progress
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May 2015
Mildred Dresselhaus: The Queen of CarbonSentinel’s Mission to Find 500,000 Near-Earth AsteroidsThe Forgotten History of Small Nuclear ReactorsHow Nicaraguan Villagers Built Their Own Electric Grid
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June 2015
A Temporary Tattoo That Senses Through Your Skin8 Must-Have Implants for the Cyborg PatientMedical Microbots Take a Fantastic Voyage Into RealityThe Vagus Nerve: A Back Door for Brain Hacking
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July 2015
The Insider’s Guide to Drone VideographyMocking AI PanicWhat Turing Himself Said About the Imitation GameThe Computer Chip That Never Forgets
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August 2015
Building Bloodhound: The Fastest Car in the WorldThe Making of Erika Harrsch’s LED CelloLet’s Build a Global Power GridHow to Compute With Data You Can’t See
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September 2015
The Secret of Airbnb’s Pricing AlgorithmBuilding Ultra-Energy-Efficient Computers Out of Tiny Bar MagnetsAndrei Haeff and the Amazing Microwave AmplifierElectronic Noise Is Drowning Out the Internet of Things
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October 2015
Tomorrow’s Space Suit: Personal “Gravity Pack” Comes StandardThe Evolution of the Space SuitHow a Microscopic Supercapacitor Will Supercharge Mobile ElectronicsWhatever Happened to the Molecular Computer?
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November 2015
How Space Telescopes Will Find Earth 2.0Novena: A Laptop With No SecretsA Radical Proposal: Replace Hard Disks With DRAMTaming Wind Power With Better Forecasts
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December 2015
Inside the Lab That Pushes Supergrid Circuit Breakers to the LimitHow Neuromorphic Image Sensors Steal Tricks From the Human EyeThe Quest for the Ultimate Vacuum TubeDRAM’s Damning Defects—and How They Cripple Computers
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2014

January 2014
NASA Readies Orion for First Test FlightChipmakers Push Memory Into the Third DimensionOculus Rift Takes Virtual Reality MainstreamDARPA’s Rescue-Robot Showdown
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February 2014
Special Report: Dream Jobs 2014The Lowballing of Kodak's Patent PortfolioHow to Make a Better Invisibility Cloak—With LasersSportvision’s Mark Perry Tracks Baseball Players’ Every Move
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March 2014
Lasers: Coming to a Theater Near YouDismantling Fukushima: The World’s Toughest Demolition ProjectChris Anderson’s Expanding Drone EmpireWill Today’s Digital Movies Exist in 100 Years?
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April 2014
2014 Top Ten Tech CarsHow to Design 911 for the 21st CenturyHow We’re Shrinking Chemical Labs Onto Optical FibersDudley Buck’s Forgotten Cryotron Computer
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May 2014
How B. Jayant Baliga Transformed Power SemiconductorsThe Hunt for the Invisible AxionThe Crash-Proof CarHow Japan Plans to Build an Orbital Solar Farm
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June 2014
We Will End Disability by Becoming CyborgsSo, Where Are My Robot Servants?Wearable Computers Will Transform LanguageMake Your Own World With Programmable Matter
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July 2014
Where Are Today’s Engineering Heroes?Nathan Myhrvold’s Recipe for a Better OvenAIs Have Mastered Chess. Will Go Be Next?Introducing the Vacuum Transistor: A Device Made of Nothing
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August 2014
Browser Fingerprinting and the Online-Tracking Arms RaceFrank Malina: America’s Forgotten RocketeerWill Silicon Save Quantum Computing?How We Gave Sight to the Mercedes Robotic Car
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September 2014
How to Catch Brain Waves in a NetSolar Energy Isn’t Always as Green as You ThinkSmart Antennas Could Open Up New Spectrum For 5GElectromagnetic Warfare Is Here
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October 2014
Why Mobile Voice Quality Still Stinks—and How to Fix ItIntroducing the World’s Most Precise ClockThe Great Lightbulb ConspiracyEscape From the Data Center: The Promise of Peer-to-Peer Cloud Computing
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November 2014
Sweat Sensors Will Change How Wearables Track Your HealthAugmented Reality Helps Drivers See Around Blind SpotsCustom Cardiology: A Virtual Heart for Every PatientHow the Ford Motor Co. Invented the SQUID
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December 2014
The Long Road to Maxwell’s EquationsInexpensive, Durable Plastic Hands Let Robots Get a GripWhat It Would Really Take to Reverse Climate ChangeWax Fuel Gives Hybrid Rockets More Oomph
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2013

January 2013
Google Gets in Your FaceThe Sony PS4: Less Dazzle, More SocialIBM’s Watson Goes to Med SchoolHarvard’s Alternative to Google Books
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February 2013
Special Report: Dream Jobs 2013PlanetSolar’s Christian Ochsenbein Sails the Seas on SunshineKhan Academy’s Marcia Lee Builds Tools for Online EducationPhreaking Out Ma Bell
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March 2013
The Gene Machine and MeSteve Mann: My “Augmediated” LifeThe Real Story of StuxnetMake Way for Flexible Silicon Chips
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April 2013
Top 10 Tech Cars: SlenderizedSpecial Report: The Genetic RevolutionLaser Fusion’s Brightest HopePeaceful Coexistence on the Radio Spectrum
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May 2013
Irwin Jacobs: Captain of CDMAThe Smartest, Greenest GridThe Troubled Life of Patent No. 6,456,841Germany Takes the Lead in HVDC
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June 2013
Agricultural Productivity Will Rise to the ChallengeHalf-Baked Ideas for Improving the Food SupplyAdventures in Printing FoodCreating Recipes with Artificial Intelligence
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July 2013
Unclean at Any SpeedThe Nearly Effortless Flight of the AlbatrossThe DNA Data DelugeChanging the Transistor Channel
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August 2013
The Electric WarshipThe Hunt for the Magnetic MonopoleOSI: The Internet That Wasn’tWhy the Internet Needs Cognitive Protocols
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September 2013
Bionic Skin for a Cyborg YouThe STEM Crisis Is a MythThe Augmented Reality America’s CupElectronics Waste Programs Ineffective in Most U.S. States
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October 2013
The Hidden Dangers of Chop-Shop ElectronicsThe Tunneling TransistorEnerJ, the Language of Good-Enough ComputingRobocopters to the Rescue
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November 2013
BMW Laser Headlights Slice Through the DarkSupercharging Patent Lawyers With AIThe Status of Moore's Law: It's Complicated4 New Ways to Smuggle Messages Across the Internet
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December 2013
It’s Time to Write the Rules of CyberwarHow William Shockley’s Robot Dream Helped Launch Silicon ValleyThe Rise and Fall of Australia’s $44 Billion Broadband ProjectNew Indoor Navigation Technologies Work Where GPS Can’t
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2012

January 2012
Top Tech 20123-D Printing Takes ShapeBirth of the Bionic EyeA Battery as Big as the Grid
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February 2012
A Perfect Storm of Planetary ProportionsDream Jobs 2012: Lego QueenUsing Lasers to Find Land Mines and IEDsGraphene: The Ultimate Switch
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March 2012
How to Control a Prosthesis With Your MindDon Walsh Describes the Trip to the Bottom of the Mariana TrenchThe Shocking Truth About DefibrillatorsThe Subtle Circuitry Behind LED Lighting
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April 2012
Marissa Mayer: Google’s Chic GeekThe Automotive Black Box Data DilemmaMEMS Switches for Low-Power LogicDeflecting Asteroids
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May 2012
John L. Hennessy: Risk TakerLight-Field Photography Revolutionizes ImagingThe Kilogram, ReinventedThe Dawn of Haiku OS
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June 2012
The Beginning of The End of CashQuantum Cash and the End of CounterfeitingA Brief History of MoneyBitcoin: The Cryptoanarchists’ Answer to Cash
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July 2012
Apes With AppsDid Bill Gates Steal the Heart of DOS?The Threat of Semiconductor VariabilityA Skeptic Looks at Alternative Energy
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August 2012
Low-Power Chips to Model a Billion NeuronsVirtual Reality Is Addictive and UnhealthyFitness Tests for Old Nuclear ReactorsU.S. Air Force’s Plug-and-Play Satellites
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September 2012
Generation SmartphoneTapping the Power of 100 SunsHow I Quantified MyselfThe Truth About Terahertz
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October 2012
How Rethink Robotics Built Its New Baxter Robot WorkerThe Cosmological SupercomputerMagnetic Microbots to Fight CancerDeconstructing Recommender Systems
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November 2012
All Aboard the Robotic Road TrainHow RCA Lost the LCDOverclock My SatelliteSports: 3-D TV’s Toughest Challenge
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December 2012
Finding the Source of the Pioneer AnomalyTV’s Future: The Broadcast Empire Strikes BackThe Benefits of Airborne Wind EnergyCan Technology Make You Happy?
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2011

January 2011
Top 11 Technologies of the DecadeDrone Aircraft: How the Drones Got Their StingersCloud Computing: It’s Always Sunny in the CloudHow NASA Built Its Mars Rovers
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February 2011
Special Report: Dream Jobs 2011Smarter Cars? There's an App for ThatNext-Generation SupercomputersIceCube: The Polar Particle Hunter
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March 2011
Synthetic Biology’s Hunt for the Genetic TransistorAre Compact Fluorescent Lightbulbs Really Cheaper Over Time?Advanced Chip Packaging Satisfies Smartphone NeedsSuperconductivity’s First Century
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April 2011
Top 10 Tech Cars 2011Music Gaming Won't DieRequiem for the Incandescent LightbulbCognitive Radio and Game Theory
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May 2011
Morris Chang: Foundry FatherThin, Fast, and Flexible SemiconductorsBits of HistoryTransistor Aging
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June 2011
The Social Era of the Web Starts NowHow I Learned to Live Google-freeFacebook Philosophy: Move Fast and Break ThingsThe Making of Diaspora
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July 2011
The Autistic HackerTopological InsulatorsThese Exercise Machines Turn Your Sweat Into ElectricityJava’s Forgotten Forebear
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August 2011
Autonomous Robots in the Fog of WarExploring Space with Chip-sized SatellitesNew Sonar Technology Reveals City-size Schools of FishThe Incredible Pull of Nanocomposite Magnets
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September 2011
Behind Intel’s New Random-Number GeneratorHacker High SchoolTransceivers to Conquer the Terahertz FrontierVideo Telephony Has Finally Arrived
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October 2011
Re-engineering AfghanistanThe Making of ArduinoThe World’s First Bitcoin ConferenceLong-Distance Car Radar
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November 2011
24 Hours at FukushimaApple Has the Most Powerful Patent Portfolio in Consumer ElectronicsTransistor WarsEngineering the 10 000-Year Clock
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December 2011
When Will We Have Unmanned Commercial Airliners?Disaster ForensicsThe Strange Birth and Long Life of UnixA Cloud You Can Trust
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2010

January 2010
IEEE Spectrum Takes Aim at 2010’s Technology Winners & LosersCan HelioVolt Challenge First Solar?Winner: Pixel Qi’s Everywhere DisplayWinner: Intrinsity’s More Cerebral Cortex
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February 2010
Dream Jobs 2010Steamed: Valve Software Battles Video-game CheatersReal-Time Search Stumbles Out of the GateVice Over IP: The VoIP Steganography Threat
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March 2010
The Electronic Display of the FutureEconomy and Shortages Affect the European Job OutlookSoftware for Optical Systems Spells the End of BlurRemotely Piloted Underwater Glider Crosses the Atlantic
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April 2010
The Mercedes-Benz SLS Spreads Winglike Doors Over a Supercar BodyHiroshi Ishiguro: The Man Who Made a Copy of HimselfShooting Stars Can Shoot Down SatellitesSESAME Synchrotron's Battle for Light
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May 2010
2010 Medal of Honor Winner: Andrew J. ViterbiMarch of the Pico ProjectorsA Critical Look at Wireless PowerBackyard Star Wars
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June 2010
The Coming Clash Between Water and EnergyThe Future of HydropowerBiofuel’s Water ProblemEight Technologies for Drinkable Seawater
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July 2010
The World’s Best Gallium NitrideCan Kevin Costner’s Machines Really Help the Gulf Cleanup?Building the Lego Universe OnlineThe Trouble With Multicore
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August 2010
MRI Lie DetectorsForgotten Soviet Moon Rover Beams Light Back to EarthDenmark’s Net-Zero-Energy HomeNuclear Reactor Renaissance
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September 2010
When My Avatar Went to WorkShanghai Expo Imagines Better CitiesGet on the Optical BusThe Fastest Helicopter on Earth
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October 2010
The Greening of the SupercarAirships for the 21st CenturyThe Great Radio Spectrum FamineSoftware Forensics Tools Enter the Courtroom
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November 2010
Betting on Algal BiofuelsGraphene Electronics, UnzippedSpintronic Memories to Revolutionize Data StorageSehat Sutardja: An Engineering Marvell
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December 2010
Ray Kurzweil’s Slippery FuturismA Letter from Ray KurzweilBeyond C.S.I.: The Rise of Computational ForensicsMoNETA: A Mind Made from Memristors
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