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Sometimes mechanical buttons and switches are better than fully automated appliances
As autonomous AI agents work together, verifying their actions, enforcing security policies, and maintaining accountability becomes increasingly difficult
“Consortium partners” aim to help scientists conduct high-risk research on aggressive timelines
Watermarks such as OpenAI’s textGrain struggle with short passages and edited text
Learn how ice, wind and vegetation load overhead distribution lines at the same time
IEEE Credentialing Program offers ethics and compliance training
Join Stephen Cass, Special Projects editor, tinkerer, and nerd extraordinaire on his journeys to repair vintage tech, explore cool places, build new devices, and ultimately add to his hoard of technological bits and bobs.
Fastagger builds AI around mobile money and low-cost phones
AI can fake a plausible paper at the push of a button. Can detection tools and peer review keep up?
How a breakthrough in electromechanical energy conversion helped shape the motors and generators that drive modern industry
My experiment with an IEEE journal revealed AI’s threats to scholarly publishing
Machines can automate drudgery but engineers make key decisions
Uncovering ELIZA’s source code reveals hidden lessons
The search tool offers summaries and verifiable source links
Model what you can’t yet measure. See how COMSOL Multiphysics speeds electromagnetic manufacturing scale-up
Read Ralph Earle’s poem from the November 2026 issue