CXO Insight: Cloud Cost Optimization

Jean J. Sanders

One of the most common discussions with users these days is about the cost of public cloud and what they can do to reduce their bills. I visited AWS Re:Invent last week, and there was no exception. What can enterprises do to solve the cost problem? And what is AWS, […]

The Device That Changed Everything

Jean J. Sanders

I was roaming around the IEEE Spectrum office a couple of months ago, looking at the display cases the IEEE History Center has installed in the corridor that runs along the conference rooms at 3 Park. They feature photos of illustrious engineers, plaques for IEEE milestones, and a handful of […]

Record set with 2-million-year-old ancient DNA

Jean J. Sanders

DNA breaks apart with time, so the older it is, the smaller the pieces become—until there’s nothing left to detect. And the shorter the fragments are, the trickier it is to assign them to a specific groups of plants or animals. “The huge damage pattern made it very clear it […]

US Expected to Announce Major Achievement in Nuclear Fusion

Jean J. Sanders

This site may earn affiliate commissions from the links on this page. Terms of use. (Credit: bluebay2014/iStock/Getty Images)The US Department of Energy is expected to announce a major scientific breakthrough on Tuesday amid rumors of groundbreaking nuclear fusion research. A lab in Livermore, California has reportedly produced a nuclear fusion […]

14 hot language projects riding WebAssembly

Jean J. Sanders

Today’s web applications are nowhere near as fast and responsive as native desktop applications, but what if they could be? That’s the promise of WebAssembly. WebAssembly is a low-level, assembly-like language with a compact binary format that runs with near-native performance in web browsers. At the same time, WebAssembly provides […]