Rachel Courtland, IEEE Spectrum

Rachel Courtland

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Past articles by Rachel:

Far From Radio Interference, the Square Kilometre Array Takes Root in South Africa and the Australian Outback

The telescope’s first phase, SKA1, blazes the path to radio astronomy’s future discovery machine → Read More

Plotting a Moore’s Law for Flexible Electronics

A five-year project at Imec aims to make big boosts in the density of thin-film transistor circuitry → Read More

Google Plans to Demonstrate the Supremacy of Quantum Computing

By the end of 2017, Google hopes to make a 49-qubit chip that will prove quantum computers can beat classical machines → Read More

Google Plans to Demonstrate the Supremacy of Quantum Computing

By the end of 2017, Google hopes to make a 49-qubit chip that will prove quantum computers can beat classical machines → Read More

How Will We Go Beyond Moore’s Law? Experts Weigh In

This short video was shot at SXSW this year, where the IEEE held a panel to discuss the future of computing → Read More

How Will We Go Beyond Moore’s Law? Experts Weigh In

This short video was shot at SXSW this year, where the IEEE held a panel to discuss the future of computing → Read More

3D X-ray Tech for Easy Reverse Engineering of ICs

Researchers map an Intel processor down to its transistors → Read More

Intel Now Packs 100 Million Transistors in Each Square Millimeter

This week, Intel revealed more about its 10 nm technology, which it says leads the industry by years → Read More

X-rays Map the 3D Interior of Integrated Circuits

With X-ray ptychography, researchers take the first step toward being able to easily map a chip for reverse engineering → Read More

X-rays Map the 3D Interior of Integrated Circuits

With X-ray ptychography, researchers take the first step toward being able to easily map a chip for reverse engineering → Read More

SXSW 2017: If the Internet Has a Kill Switch, We Are It

Policies and human beings are the weak points in ensuring a reliable and available Internet, experts say → Read More

A Low-Power Artificial Synapse Could One Day Interface With the Brain

Battery technology inspires a flexible, organic, nonvolatile device for neuromorphic circuits that needs only millivolts to change state → Read More

Finish Line Looms for Google Lunar XPrize Finalists

Five teams, four rockets, and 380,000 kilometers to go → Read More

5 Hurdles to Reaching the Next Star System

Even if your spaceship is just a chip, getting to Alpha Centauri will be a real challenge → Read More

5 Hurdles to Reaching the Next Star System

Even if your spaceship is just a chip, getting to Alpha Centauri will be a real challenge → Read More

5 Teams Move Forward in Google Lunar XPrize Moon Race

2017 is the make or break year for the $30 million competition → Read More

5 Teams Move Forward in Google Lunar XPrize Moon Race

2017 is the make or break year for the $30 million competition → Read More

HPE's New Chip Marks a Milestone in Optical Computing

The experimental 1,000-component optical processor is made for challenges like the “traveling salesman problem” → Read More

HPE's New Chip Marks a Milestone in Optical Computing

The experimental 1,000-component optical processor is made for challenges like the “traveling salesman problem” → Read More

Intel Finds Moore’s Law’s Next Step at 10 Nanometers

In 2017, the company will exploit its manufacturing edge to create a new generation of chips → Read More