IEEE SpectrumPub Date : 2025-06-06DOI: 10.1109/MSPEC.2025.11027752
Emily Waltz
{"title":"5 Questions: Roel May: He Saved Eagles by Painting Wind-Turbine Blades Black","authors":"Emily Waltz","doi":"10.1109/MSPEC.2025.11027752","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/MSPEC.2025.11027752","url":null,"abstract":"Wind turbines kill a lot of birds, particularly eagles and other raptors. The exact number is unknown, because many of the world's wind farms don't monitor bird deaths. One mitigation idea to reduce these numbers—and assuage a political argument against wind turbines—is gaining traction: Paint one turbine blade black. Ecologist Roel May spoke with IEEE Spectrum about his 11-year study to reduce raptor deaths, and his surprise at the luke-warm reactions from wind-turbine engineers.","PeriodicalId":13249,"journal":{"name":"IEEE Spectrum","volume":"62 6","pages":"21-21"},"PeriodicalIF":2.6,"publicationDate":"2025-06-06","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/stamp/stamp.jsp?tp=&arnumber=11027752","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144229480","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 : 2025-06-06DOI: 10.1109/MSPEC.2025.11027742
Gwendolyn Rak
{"title":"The Data: Patent Power 2025","authors":"Gwendolyn Rak","doi":"10.1109/MSPEC.2025.11027742","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/MSPEC.2025.11027742","url":null,"abstract":"Not all patents are created equal. While every invention granted a patent in the United States must include something new and useful, a novel piece of technology may be revolutionary or merely incremental; looking at the sheer number of patents a company produces isn't necessarily enough to determine just how influential that company is.","PeriodicalId":13249,"journal":{"name":"IEEE Spectrum","volume":"62 6","pages":"14-15"},"PeriodicalIF":2.6,"publicationDate":"2025-06-06","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144232139","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 : 2025-06-06DOI: 10.1109/MSPEC.2025.11027737
Andrej Zdravkovic
{"title":"AMD Takes Holistic Approach to AI Coding Copilots: The Chipmaker is Using AI Throughout the Software-development Life Cycle","authors":"Andrej Zdravkovic","doi":"10.1109/MSPEC.2025.11027737","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/MSPEC.2025.11027737","url":null,"abstract":"Based on existing code and an engineer's prompts, these assistants can suggest new lines or whole chunks of code, serving as a kind of advanced autocomplete.","PeriodicalId":13249,"journal":{"name":"IEEE Spectrum","volume":"62 6","pages":"26-31"},"PeriodicalIF":2.6,"publicationDate":"2025-06-06","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144232140","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 : 2025-06-06DOI: 10.1109/MSPEC.2025.11027741
Eliza Strickland
{"title":"An Exoskeleton Made for Dancing: The Self-Balancing Xomotion Promises Greater Agility","authors":"Eliza Strickland","doi":"10.1109/MSPEC.2025.11027741","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/MSPEC.2025.11027741","url":null,"abstract":"Many people who have spinal cord injuries also have dramatic tales of disaster: a diving accident, a car crash, a constructionsite catastrophe. But Chloë Angus has quite a different story. She was home one evening in 2015 when her right foot started tingling and gradually lost sensation. She managed to drive herself to the hospital, but over the course of the next day she lost all sensation and control of both legs. The doctors found a benign tumor inside her spinal cord that couldn't be removed and told her she'd never walk again. But Angus, ajetsetting fashion designer, isn't the type to take such news lying—or sitting—down.","PeriodicalId":13249,"journal":{"name":"IEEE Spectrum","volume":"62 6","pages":"24-63"},"PeriodicalIF":2.6,"publicationDate":"2025-06-06","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144232136","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 : 2025-06-06DOI: 10.1109/MSPEC.2025.11027749
Mike Colias
{"title":"From Sizzling to Fizzling at Ford: How the EV Transition Made Rock-Star Engine Designers Expendable","authors":"Mike Colias","doi":"10.1109/MSPEC.2025.11027749","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/MSPEC.2025.11027749","url":null,"abstract":"One summer morning in 2021, Lem Yeung opened an email from Ford's HR department. He stared at his screen. Yeung, a mechanical engineer, had worked on internal-combustion-engine development at Ford for 30 years, the exact tenure that made him eligible for the generous retirement package that Detroit's car companies have long offered. The son of Chinese immigrants, Yeung was also part of Ford power-train lineage—both of his parents also were engineers who developed engines at the iconic company.","PeriodicalId":13249,"journal":{"name":"IEEE Spectrum","volume":"62 6","pages":"38-46"},"PeriodicalIF":2.6,"publicationDate":"2025-06-06","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144231985","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 : 2025-06-06DOI: 10.1109/MSPEC.2025.11027734
Matthew Coxon
{"title":"Hack Yourself for a Better Time in VR: 3 Techniques That May Stave off Cybersickness","authors":"Matthew Coxon","doi":"10.1109/MSPEC.2025.11027734","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/MSPEC.2025.11027734","url":null,"abstract":"Despite advances in headset hardware and thoughtful software design, virtual reality can still be a nauseating, dizzying, and sweaty experience for some people. From horrific rides on virtual roller coasters to alarming leaps with Beat Saber, you don't have to talk to many people before someone shares a vomit-inducing experience.","PeriodicalId":13249,"journal":{"name":"IEEE Spectrum","volume":"62 6","pages":"16-18"},"PeriodicalIF":2.6,"publicationDate":"2025-06-06","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144229479","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 : 2025-06-06DOI: 10.1109/MSPEC.2025.11027751
Allison Marsh
{"title":"Past Forward: This Little Mars Rover Stayed Home","authors":"Allison Marsh","doi":"10.1109/MSPEC.2025.11027751","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/MSPEC.2025.11027751","url":null,"abstract":"On 4 July 1997, Mars Pathfinder parachuted through the Martian atmosphere and bounced to a landing encased in glorified airbags. The next day the airbags retracted, and a microwave-oven-size rover named Sojourner eased its way down the ramp, becoming the first human-made vehicle to roll around on the surface of another planet. For the next 83 days, Sojourner captivated the world with inspiring images from the Red Planet.","PeriodicalId":13249,"journal":{"name":"IEEE Spectrum","volume":"62 6","pages":"64-64"},"PeriodicalIF":2.6,"publicationDate":"2025-06-06","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/stamp/stamp.jsp?tp=&arnumber=11027751","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144232101","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}