David Schneider
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Past articles by David:
Why Cyberwarfare Is Overhyped
And why cybersecurity will always need more than purely technical solutions → Read More
Roll Your Own All-Sky, Raspberry Pi Camera
Use Raspberry Pi hardware to capture mesmerizing time-lapse images of the heavens → Read More
Bob Kahn on the Birth of “Internetworking”
A codeveloper of TCP/IP explains what led to his collaboration with Vint Cerf → Read More
The State of the Transistor in 3 Charts
In 75 years, it’s become tiny, mighty, ubiquitous, and just plain weird → Read More
Chasing Weather Balloons With Software-Defined Radio
Hunt them with a cheap SDR receiver and a homemade antenna → Read More
Search for Buried Treasure With This DIY Magnetometer
In the 1968 movie 2001: A Space Odyssey, an oddness in the moon’s magnetic field leads scientists to an alien monolith buried under Tycho crater. The notion of being led to a hidden object by virtue of the magnetic anomaly it creates must have really intrigued my 9-year-old self, because a decade → Read More
Toward Optoelectronic Chips That Mimic the Human Brain
An interview with a NIST researcher keen to improve spiking neuromorphic networks → Read More
What If Europe Loses Russian Natural Gas?
Electric space heaters are, of course, not an efficient way to heat your entire home. But small portable units could well help people who are forced to do in a big way next winter what the IEA sees the most effective conservation strategy of all: turn down the thermostat. → Read More
What If Europe Loses Russian Natural Gas?
Electric space heaters are, of course, not an efficient way to heat your entire home. But small portable units could well help people who are forced to do in a big way next winter what the IEA sees the most effective conservation strategy of all: turn down the thermostat. → Read More
Detect Solar Flares and Gamma-Ray Bursts for Less Than $100
Monitor space weather by tuning into signals sent to submarines → Read More
Should the Cobalt for EVs Come From the Congo or the Seafloor?
The Metals Company’s pilot program raises muddy questions → Read More
Apple Fixes Its DIY Repair Stance
IEEE Spectrum spoke with iFixit’s founder about the iPhone maker finally giving do-it-yourselfers the tools to do just that. → Read More
Apple Fixes Its DIY Repair Stance
IEEE Spectrum spoke with iFixit’s founder about the iPhone maker finally giving do-it-yourselfers the tools to do just that. → Read More
How Deep Learning Works
This article is part of our special report on AI, “The Great AI Reckoning.” Part of the problem is that the neural network technology that drives many AI systems can break down in ways that remain a mystery to researchers. "It's unpredictable which problems artificial intelligence will be good at, because we don't understand intelligence itself very well," says computer scientist Dan Hendrycks… → Read More
A DIY E-bike Conversion on the Cheap
Looking to such specialized nervous systems as a model for artificial intelligence may prove just as valuable, if not more so, than studying the human brain. Consider the brains of those ants in your pantry. Each has some 250,000 neurons. Larger insects have closer to 1 million. In my research at Sandia National Laboratories in Albuquerque, I study the brains of one of these larger insects, the… → Read More
A DIY E-bike Conversion on the Cheap
The Cognitive Agro Pilot system lets a human operator focus on harvesting rather than driving. An integrated display and control system in the cab handles driving based on a video feed from a single low-resolution camera, no GPS or Internet connectivity required. Cognitive Pilot You might think that GPS navigation is ideal for automated agriculture, since the task facing the operator of a farm… → Read More
The New Supersonic Boom
Aeronautical engineers strive for a fresh start two decades after Concorde's demise → Read More
At Last, First Light for the James Webb Space Telescope Nears
The most ambitious space instrument ever will let us see back almost to the big bang → Read More
Squeezing Rocket Fuel From Moon Rocks
Here’s how lunar explorers will mine the regolith to make rocket fuel → Read More
Squeezing Rocket Fuel From Moon Rocks
Here’s how lunar explorers will mine the regolith to make rocket fuel → Read More