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Their Bionic Eyes Are Now Obsolete and Unsupported (spectrum.ieee.org)

These early adopters found out what happened when a cutting-edge marvel became an obsolete gadget... inside their bodies.

Can Flow Batteries Finally Beat Lithium? (spectrum.ieee.org)

Amazing stuff.

German researchers say methanol could be the solution to long-term renewable energy storage, and a single methanol tank the size of a large LNG carrier ship, is enough to power Germany for 10 hours. (spectrum.ieee.org)

Designing the First Apple Macintosh: The Engineers’ Story (spectrum.ieee.org)

How a small team of little-known designers changed computing forever

We Need to Decarbonize Software | IEEE Spectrum (spectrum.ieee.org)

An interesting tool from the article is ecograder.com which grades a website’s carbon emissions and provides recommendations to improve. There is also the Green Web Foundation’s directory of hosting providers powered by renewable energy....

Why Bloat Is Still Software’s Biggest Vulnerability (spectrum.ieee.org)

Facebook Messenger's Rollout of End-to-End Encryption Leaves Metadata Questions Unanswered (spectrum.ieee.org)

Excerpts from the article and another article by the Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) :...

Your Tablet's Light Sensor Can Spy On You (spectrum.ieee.org)

cross-posted from: lemmy.world/post/10921294...

Neuralink Barrels Into Human Tests Despite Fraud Claims (spectrum.ieee.org)

Generating Power On Earth From The Coldness Of Deep Space (spectrum.ieee.org)

Magnetic Gel Can Help Wounds Heal Faster (spectrum.ieee.org)

Part manufactured by Germany's Zeppelin company, the largest airship since the 'Hindenburg' has FAA clearance to begin test flights in California. (spectrum.ieee.org)

Cory Doctorow: Interoperability Can Save the Open Web (spectrum.ieee.org)

How to free users from Big Tech’s walled gardens...

Wind-to-Hydrogen Tech Goes to Sea (spectrum.ieee.org)

Is electrolysis cheaper offshore? Siemens Energy and the H2Mare project will find out

Boston Dynamics’ Founder on the Future of Robotics (spectrum.ieee.org)

Do you love robots?

At Last, Single-Photon Cameras Could Peer into Your Brain (spectrum.ieee.org)

Superconductor-based cameras that can detect a single photon—the smallest smidgeon of light—have existed for 20 years, but they’ve remained confined to laboratories due to the inability to scale them past a few pixels. Now, a team at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) in Boulder, Colo., has created a...

What scenarios do you envision might arise once animals join our ranks? (spectrum.ieee.org)

I heard about this because someone I know personally on here says she’s helping to work on this (which by the way sounds like it would perfectly fit the format/structure of the fediverse) and I felt too fascinated to not ask. What are some scenarios that comes to mind when you think of this being a thing?