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The U.S. government recommends that everyone have a disaster kit that includes a weather radio. These radios tune to a nationwide network run by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) and the Federal Communications Commission that provides alerts about hazardous weather and other...

A long-awaited, emerging computer network component may finally be having its moment. At Nvidia’s GTC event last week in San Jose, the company announced that it will produce an optical network switch designed to drastically cut the power consumption of AI data centers. The system—called a co-package...

When Meta announced its plans for a vast new fiber optic network covering 50,000 kilometers and linking five continents last month, the company’s selling point was cutting-edge undersea cable tech. What went unsaid, however, was the geopolitical challenges the project might also face, along with pot...

In partnership with Google, the Computer History Museum has released the source code to AlexNet, the neural network that in 2012 kickstarted today’s prevailing approach to AI. The source code is available as open source on CHM’s GitHub page. What Is AlexNet? AlexNet is an artificial neural network c...

Attending an IEEE conference is an opportunity to learn about the latest advances in technology, meet some of the world’s leading researchers, and network with thought leaders and industry practitioners. Last year IEEE held nearly 2,300 conferences in 109 countries. The research from these cutting-e...

This past week at the 2025 Mobile World Congress (MWC) in Barcelona, Samsung and Hyundai Motor Company unveiled a private 5G network streamlined for low-power devices that connect across large facilities. The companies reported their factory’s private 5G Reduced Capability (RedCap) network will tran...

Stanford University professor Fei-Fei Li has already earned her place in the history of AI. She played a major role in the deep learning revolution by laboring for years to create the ImageNet dataset and competition, which challenged AI systems to recognize objects and animals across 1,000 categori...

China launched its first batch of satellites for its Qianfan megaconstellation earlier this month. It now has 18 satellites in orbit, but much more will be needed to build out this network of nearly 14,000 satellites. Qianfan—”thousands sails” in Chinese and also referred to as Spacesail or G60—is a...

Artificial neural networks—algorithms inspired by biological brains—are at the center of modern artificial intelligence, behind both chatbots and image generators. But with their many neurons, they can be black boxes, their inner workings uninterpretable to users. Researchers have now created a fund...

Since its launch in 2019, the IEEE Learning Network (ILN) has been instrumental in advancing professional development through its diverse array of courses and programs. From specialized technical training to broader skill development, ILN online courses cater to professionals at every stage of their...

As the world’s 5G rollout continues with its predictable fits and starts, one unlikely 5G competitor is now coming into view: Wi-Fi. Private 5G networks—in which a person or company sets up their own facility-wide cellular network—are today finding applications where Wi-Fi (the IEEE 802.11 wireless ...

A recent Bluetooth connection between a device on Earth and a satellite in orbit signals a potential new space race—this time, for global location-tracking networks. Seattle-based startup Hubble Network announced today that it had a letter of understanding with San Francisco-based startup Life360 to...

Making breakthroughs in artificial intelligence these days requires huge amounts of computing power. In January, Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg announced that by the end of this year, the company will have installed 350,000 Nvidia GPUs—the specialized computer chips used to train AI models—to power its AI...

In the mid-1960s, Robert Kahn began thinking about how computers with different operating systems could talk to each other across a network. He didn’t think much about what they would say to one another, though. He was a theoretical guy, on leave from the faculty of the Massachusetts Institute of Te...

When IEEE Spectrum first wrote about Covariant in 2020, it was a new-ish robotics startup looking to apply robotics to warehouse picking at scale through the magic of a single end-to-end neural network. At the time, Covariant was focused on this picking use case, because it represents an application...

The generative AI revolution embodied in tools like ChatGPT, Midjourney, and many others is at its core based on a simple formula: Take a very large neural network, train it on a huge dataset scraped from the Web, and then use it to fulfill a broad range of user requests. Large language models (LLMs...

Wi-Fi is one of the most aggravating success stories. Despite how ubiquitous the technology has become in our lives, it still gives reasons to grumble: The service is spotty or slow, for example, or the network keeps cutting out. Wi-Fi’s reliability has an image problem. When Wi-Fi 7 arrives this ye...

New photonic deep neural network could also analyze audio, video, and other data

Researchers at Los Alamos National Laboratory have for the first time made an artificial spin glass consisting of nanomagnets arranged in a way that mimics a neural network. Spin glass models have previously been used to model complex systems, including brain function and stock market dynamics.

Perceptual inconsistency and network infrastructure challenges will require new technologies and vast sums of money

On Wednesday they made it happen, closing breakers along Ukraine’s southern border and synchronizing its power system with the 50-hertz electromagnetic wave traversing the wires of the European Network of Transmission System Operators (ENTSO-E). The move simultaneously looped in Moldova.

AT&T;’s network shutdown is only the beginning

A decade before the Internet went mainstream, French citizens were interacting via Minitel, a computer network open to anyone with a telephone

It was transmitted through Radio Cental’s relay network

A public SDR network triangulates the island as the source of mystery signals

Every component in Crossrail, London’s new underground train network, will be digitally tracked via an intricate 3-D model

New satellite sensor data, combined with info from the terrestrial U.S. National Lightning Detection Network, will help scientists identify the most dangerous lightning strikes

“The Network is the Computer” catchphrase has a proud new parent: Cloudflare

Chinese researchers are developing an airborne quantum communications network with drones as nodes

Engineers have designed a scheme to let thousands of brain implants talk at up to 10 megabits per second

Industry has been focused on speeding the many matrix multiplications involved, but a search algorithm may provide better performance

The new network aims to improve traffic, manufacturing, health care, and more

Stanford’s DeepSolar neural network analyzed satellite images to count U.S. solar installations—and there are a lot more than anybody thought

Manhole antenna solution offers glimpse into 5G strategies for signal propagation

Three twenty-somethings—one from Ecuador, one from France, and one from India—teamed up in Silicon Valley to tackle the challenge of spotting a wildfire before it gets out of control

A 48-kilometer quantum network will test whether solid-state qubits are more reliable and scalable than photonic qubits

The Vector Network Analyzer is becoming ubiquitous in signal integrity laboratories as data rates increase inside network and data centers.

While performance for those using the prototype 5G network was great, coverage was very limited

An emergency communications network in a suitcase (or two) and an 80-foot tower for line-of-sight broadband connections claim top honors

The ITU focus group wants to make sure the backbone of every network can support future demand for data

A GPU-based neural network was the only way to handle a garage full of Lego

Taking a new approach to phase shifting antennas increases network range, data rate, and capacity

Active silicon interposers could make for smaller, better computers but the networks need to mesh