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You can get whole seconds back every morning by measuring your coffee beans in the Subminimal Subscale dosing cup. Read more

Wielding a shiny chrome scoop, Michael Rosenthal leans over and digs into the powder in a half-filled 55-gallon drum. He holds up the scoop and takes a pinch in his fingers and smooshes it to show me the texture. It’s like talc, but it’s an odd, beautiful shade of pale green-gray. On shelves all around… Read more

After years of planning, building, geopolitical wrangling, and workforce challenges, the world’s largest semiconductor foundry, Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co. (TSMC) is officially starting mass production at an advanced chip-manufacturing facility in Phoenix in 2025. The fab represents the arrival of advanced chip manufacturing in the United States and a test of whether the 2022 CHIPS… Read more

IEEE Spectrum‘s transportation coverage drew just under half a million visitors in 2024. Readers came to learn the latest news about advances in electric vehicles and battery technology, sustainable energy alternatives, transit infrastructure and logistics, and AI and emerging risks. One of our more popular articles reported on an issue at the intersection of technology… Read more

There’s no such thing as black-colored light. So how can we see Darth Vader on a screen? Read more

Is the enormous Echo Show 21 Amazon’s best smart display or its biggest missed opportunity? Here’s what I think. Read more

Teams designing AI should include linguistics and philosophy experts, parents, young people, everyday people with different life experiences from different socio-economic backgrounds. Read more

Add some color to your life, find accent lighting to match your mood, and transform the feel of your home with these decorative connected devices. Read more

The hyped-up Rabbit R1, Humane Ai Pin, and Apple Vision Pro have continued receiving updates since their lackluster launches. How are things progressing? I tried them again to find out. Read more

Smartphones and face recognition are being combined to create new digital travel documents. The paper passport’s days are numbered—despite new privacy risks. Read more