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Fixing the Future

By: IEEE Spectrum
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  • Fixing the Future from IEEE Spectrum magazine is a biweekly look at the cultural, business, and environmental consequences of technological solutions to hard problems like sustainability, climate change, and the ethics and scientific challenges posed by AI. IEEE Spectrum is the flagship magazine of IEEE, the world’s largest professional organization devoted to engineering and the applied sciences.
    IEEE Spectrum 2020-2024
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Episodes
  • Never Recharge Your Consumer Electronics Again?

    Never Recharge Your Consumer Electronics Again?
    May 15 2024

    Founder and CEO of Exeger, Giovanni Fili, talks with IEEE Spectrum editor Stephen Cass about Exeger's Powerfoyle flexible dye-based solar cells for consumer electronics, which can recharge devices even in indoor light, and how Exeger convinced major companies to incorporate its tech into their products.
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    27 mins
  • The UK's ARIA Is Searching For Better AI Tech

    The UK's ARIA Is Searching For Better AI Tech
    May 1 2024

    The United Kingdom has created a new government agency, the Advanced Research and Invention Agency, or ARIA, similar to the United States' DARPA. ARIA's first foray is into creating new enabling technologies to make AI faster and more energy efficient, and the program director, Suraj Bramhavar spoke with Spectrum editor Dina Genkina about some of the new avenues that ARIA would be helping investigate.
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    25 mins
  • Zipline's Droid Brings U.S. Commercial Drone Delivery Closer

    Zipline's Droid Brings U.S. Commercial Drone Delivery Closer
    Apr 17 2024

    Zipline originally established itself delivering medical supplies in rural Africa. Now, Zipline cofounder and CTO Keenan Wyrobek talks with senior editor Stephen Cass about recent milestones in bringing commercial drone delivery to the United States, including the development of Platform 2 and its tethered mini-droid that makes precision drop-offs possible in urban areas.

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    20 mins
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