IEEE SpectrumPub Date : 2025-03-07DOI: 10.1109/MSPEC.2025.10918574
William Webb
{"title":"Rethinking 6G: It's not More Bandwidth that Users Need","authors":"William Webb","doi":"10.1109/MSPEC.2025.10918574","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/MSPEC.2025.10918574","url":null,"abstract":"Could maximum data speeds–on mobile devices, at home, at work–be approaching “fast enough” for most people for most purposes? These heretical questions are worth asking, because industry bandwidth tracking data has lately been revealing something surprising: Terrestrial and mobile-data growth is slowing down. In fact, absent a dramatic change in consumer tech and broadband usage patterns, data-rate demand appears set to top out below 1 billion bits per second (1 gigabit per second) in just a few years.","PeriodicalId":13249,"journal":{"name":"IEEE Spectrum","volume":"62 3","pages":"18-23"},"PeriodicalIF":2.6,"publicationDate":"2025-03-07","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143570647","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"工程技术","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
IEEE SpectrumPub Date : 2025-03-07DOI: 10.1109/MSPEC.2025.10918575
Jack Copeland
{"title":"Alan Turing's Top-Secret Diy Project: An Exclusive Look Inside his Pioneering Voice-Encryption System","authors":"Jack Copeland","doi":"10.1109/MSPEC.2025.10918575","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/MSPEC.2025.10918575","url":null,"abstract":"It was 8 May 1945, Victory in Europe Day. With the German military's unconditional surrender, the European part of World War II came to an end. Alan Turing and his assistant, Donald Bayley, celebrated victory in their quiet English way, by taking a long walk together.","PeriodicalId":13249,"journal":{"name":"IEEE Spectrum","volume":"62 3","pages":"34-41"},"PeriodicalIF":2.6,"publicationDate":"2025-03-07","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143570648","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"工程技术","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
IEEE SpectrumPub Date : 2025-03-07DOI: 10.1109/MSPEC.2025.10918576
Gwendolyn Rak
{"title":"Bring Back Buttons: This “Re-Buttonization” Expert is in Demand as Touchscreen Mania Dies Down","authors":"Gwendolyn Rak","doi":"10.1109/MSPEC.2025.10918576","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/MSPEC.2025.10918576","url":null,"abstract":"Many people are tiring of touchscreens, and there are now more ways than ever to navigate our devices. One startup's smart mouthwear, for example, lets you control your tablet with your tongue. Another has created earbuds that use subtle facial gestures to command your computer.","PeriodicalId":13249,"journal":{"name":"IEEE Spectrum","volume":"62 3","pages":"30-33"},"PeriodicalIF":2.6,"publicationDate":"2025-03-07","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143570735","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"工程技术","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
IEEE SpectrumPub Date : 2025-03-07DOI: 10.1109/MSPEC.2025.10918588
David Schneider
{"title":"See the World With Muons: For About $100, You Can Map Mine Shafts and More","authors":"David Schneider","doi":"10.1109/MSPEC.2025.10918588","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/MSPEC.2025.10918588","url":null,"abstract":"In the mid-1960s, the Nobel Prize-winning physicist Luis Alvarez had a wild idea. He proposed using muons, highly penetrating subatomic particles created when cosmic rays strike Earth's atmosphere, to search for hidden chambers within one of the pyramids of Giza.","PeriodicalId":13249,"journal":{"name":"IEEE Spectrum","volume":"62 3","pages":"12-14"},"PeriodicalIF":2.6,"publicationDate":"2025-03-07","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143570729","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"工程技术","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
IEEE SpectrumPub Date : 2025-03-07DOI: 10.1109/MSPEC.2025.10918573
Allison Marsh
{"title":"Past Forward: The Path of Most Resistance","authors":"Allison Marsh","doi":"10.1109/MSPEC.2025.10918573","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/MSPEC.2025.10918573","url":null,"abstract":"In 1861 or thereabouts, a British doctor and electrical researcher named William Snow Harris published a slim volume containing three experiments. His goal was to help readers visualize conductivity, resistance, and the powerful effects of lightning. The booklet's illustrations were printed with gold leaf, and when the reader applied a charge to one end of the metal, the current would char a black course along the path of least resistance. The booklet was part of Harris's decades-long crusade to convince the Royal Navy to adopt his lightning rods on wooden ships. This illustration shows a poor seaman who accidentally gets caught in the rigging during a lightning storm. As Harris wrote, absent a lightning rod, the sailor “would be probably destroyed.” Despite successful tests on 11 vessels, including the HMS Beagle (of Darwin fame), the Admiralty resisted adopting Harris's invention for over 20 years.","PeriodicalId":13249,"journal":{"name":"IEEE Spectrum","volume":"62 3","pages":"60-60"},"PeriodicalIF":2.6,"publicationDate":"2025-03-07","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/stamp/stamp.jsp?tp=&arnumber=10918573","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143570734","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"工程技术","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
IEEE SpectrumPub Date : 2025-03-07DOI: 10.1109/MSPEC.2025.10918581
Dina Genkina
{"title":"5 Questions: Amanda Stein: She's Finding the Perfect Application for Defective Diamonds","authors":"Dina Genkina","doi":"10.1109/MSPEC.2025.10918581","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/MSPEC.2025.10918581","url":null,"abstract":"Quantum sensors take the biggest road-block for quantum computers-unwanted interference, or noise-and turn it into a strength. Noise wrecks quantum computers because the quantum states they use for computation are affected by the slightest disturbances from the environment. But quantum sensors use those disturbances to detect minuscule changes in magnetic and electric fields.","PeriodicalId":13249,"journal":{"name":"IEEE Spectrum","volume":"62 3","pages":"17-17"},"PeriodicalIF":2.6,"publicationDate":"2025-03-07","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/stamp/stamp.jsp?tp=&arnumber=10918581","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143570608","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"工程技术","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
IEEE SpectrumPub Date : 2025-03-07DOI: 10.1109/MSPEC.2025.10918585
Harry Goldstein
{"title":"The Coming Quantum Boom: A Century After Quantum Mechanics Was Described, a Vibrant Industry Blooms","authors":"Harry Goldstein","doi":"10.1109/MSPEC.2025.10918585","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/MSPEC.2025.10918585","url":null,"abstract":"Why build an industry around a scale that cuts across established verticals? This question occurred to me on a long flight to Paris, to attend the opening ceremony of the 2025 International Year of Quantum Science and Technology, at UNESCO headquarters last month. I was part of an IEEE delegation led by 2025 IEEE President Kathleen Kramer. The event celebrated the 100th anniversary of several seminal quantum-science publications including Wolfgang Pauli's paper on his exclusion principle and Werner Heisenberg's “Quantum-Theoretical Re-interpretation of Kinematic and Mechanical Relations.”","PeriodicalId":13249,"journal":{"name":"IEEE Spectrum","volume":"62 3","pages":"2-2"},"PeriodicalIF":2.6,"publicationDate":"2025-03-07","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/stamp/stamp.jsp?tp=&arnumber=10918585","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143570761","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"工程技术","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
IEEE SpectrumPub Date : 2025-03-07DOI: 10.1109/MSPEC.2025.10918572
Dmitry Kireev
{"title":"A Graphene Biosensor Tattoo: A Flexible Stick-on Patch Could Monitor Blood Pressure, Stress, and More","authors":"Dmitry Kireev","doi":"10.1109/MSPEC.2025.10918572","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/MSPEC.2025.10918572","url":null,"abstract":"Imagine it's the year 2040, and a 12-year-old kid with diabetes pops a piece of chewing gum into his mouth. A temporary tattoo on his forearm registers the uptick in sugar in his blood stream and sends that information to his phone. Data from this health-monitoring tattoo is also uploaded to the cloud so his mom can keep tabs on him. She has her own temporary tattoos–one for measuring the lactic acid in her sweat as she exercises and another for continuously tracking her blood pressure and heart rate.","PeriodicalId":13249,"journal":{"name":"IEEE Spectrum","volume":"62 3","pages":"24-29"},"PeriodicalIF":2.6,"publicationDate":"2025-03-07","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143570733","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"工程技术","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}