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2021's Top Stories About AI

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Many of this year's top articles grappled with the limits of deep learning (today's dominant strand of AI) and spotlighted researchers seeking new paths. Here are the 10 most popular AI articles that Spectrum published in 2021, ranked by the amount of time people spent reading them. Their article isn't a total downer, though.

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Chips to Compute With Encrypted Data Are Coming

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This article is part of our special report Top Tech 2024. I think this is the coolest technology of the last 20 years,” says Todd Austin , a hardware security expert at the University of Michigan, whose startup Agita Labs does a different form of secure computing in the Amazon and Microsoft clouds. “It billion fine for Meta.

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Virtual Reality Helps Students Improve Their Math Literacy

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In the United States, eighth graders scored an average of 271 out of 500 in math on last year’s National Assessment of Educational Progress , as highlighted in a New York Times article. Displayed on the student’s VR headset is a list of modules. It’s the lowest level in decades. The 10-year study is being conducted in Arizona.

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Berkeley Lab team directly probes solid/liquid interface of electrochemical double layer

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The latest work has narrowed the list of candidate models that explain what’s at work in the double layer. —Hubert Gasteiger, a chemistry professor at the Technical University of Munich. Solid/liquid interfaces are key for all kinds of research, from batteries to fuel cells to artificial photosynthesis. ” Karlsson, Mårten O.

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A closer look at brushed AC motors in EVs

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A rather compelling list of pluses. That’s a rather compelling list of pluses, so perhaps we’ll be seeing more of them in EVs in the future. This article appeared in Issue 60: April-June 2022 – Subscribe now. Everything old is new again: BMW’s fifth-generation eDrive features a wound-field synchronous AC motor.

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Lean Software, Power Electronics, and the Return of Optical Storage

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In fact, Ozzie Zehner wrote an article for us way back in the mid-Teens about the— the dirty secret behind your electric car is the coal that fuels it. Cass: Yeah, the truth is there is a list of things we could do. And— Cass: Oh, that was quite controversial. It was very much front and center. We had Blu-ray. Not magic things.

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How the Graphical User Interface Was Invented

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It took some 30 years of effort by engineers and computer scientists in universities, government laboratories, and corporate research groups, piggybacking on each other’s work, trying new ideas, repeating each other’s mistakes. This article was first published as “Of Mice and menus: designing the user-friendly interface.”

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