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Africa’s Electricity-Access Problem Is Worse Than You Think

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Both are easy to define—a population’s share connected to the national grid or to a local source of electricity, and the ability to read and write—but such definitions do not make it possible to get a truly informed verdict. This article appears in the March 2022 print issue as “Africa’s Access to Electricity.”.

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NREL study finds high-pressure hydrogen pipeline system could potentially make hydrogen cost-competitive with gasoline

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This article compares the economics of various existing hydrogen-delivery methods with the economics of a novel variation on pipeline delivery: a high-pressure, scalable, intra-city pipeline system referred to here as the “HyLine” system. The smallest modeled system connects eight existing stations. —Penev et al. 2019.10.005.

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IBM’s Fall From World Dominance

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Cortada is also a contributor to IEEE Spectrum , most recently of an article this month entitled " How the IBM PC Won, Then Lost, the Personal Computer Market ," and in that sense I'm delighted to call him a colleague. You're getting a lot of interesting comments on the article in Spectrum , I understand. He joins us by Skype.

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Stopping Infection Outbreaks with AI and Big Data

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Steven Cherry Lee, I should disclose at this point that I have my own connection to the University of Pittsburgh. You co-wrote an editorial for an article about this vaccine in the New England Journal of Medicine. Our theme music is by Chad Crouch. Apparently, this is an incredibly dangerous disease.

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A Small Startup Fights Rare Diseases With Big Data

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It's buried deep in documents like PubMed articles and patent filings. What's the connection between Hindu mythology and contemporary data analytics? Fixing the Future is sponsored by COMSOL , makers of mathematical modeling software and a longtime supporter of IEEE Spectrum as a way to connect and communicate with engineers.