Technology

Unless if you’re really in the know about nascent platforms, you probably didn’t know what Mastodon was until Elon Musk bought Twitter and renamed it X. In the initial aftermath of the acquisition, as users fretted over what direction...

Nearly 10,000 light years away, a planet the size of Saturn is floating all on its own through empty...

Every September as we plan our January tech forecast issue, IEEE Spectrum’s editors survey their beats and seek out promising projects that could solve seemingly intractable problems or transform entire industries.Often these projects fly under the radar of the...

Fizz is betting that Gen Z is tired of performing their lives on Instagram and TikTok.  What started as a pandemic-era group chat frustration has turned into the dominant social platform on college campuses across the US, focused on the 99% of...

Brain Chip Helps Blind People See ...

Olivia Remes is a mental health and well-being researcher at the University of Cambridge, author of This Is How...

An anonymous reader quotes a report from the New York Times: For a while, it seemed the notion that light drinking was good for the heart had gone by the wayside, debunked by new studies and overshadowed by...

High school sophomore Abigail Merchant has made it her mission to use technology to reduce flood-related deaths. The 15-year-old lives in Orlando, Fla., a state where flooding is frequent in part because of its low elevation.The changing climate is...

Whether quantum computers can actually solve practical problems is one of the biggest unanswered questions of this growing industry...

Concerns about how AI will affect workers continue to rise in lockstep with the pace of advancements and new products promising automation and efficiency.Evidence suggests that fear is warranted.A November MIT study found an estimated 11.7% of jobs...