IEEE Spectrum Podcast

As books become e-books, publishers seem happy to cut libraries out of the picture

What will we do when machines do all the work?

Aydogan Ozcan’s phone can analyze blood, tell whether a cookie contains peanuts, and watch sperm cells dance

Language translation is proving to be one of the hardest tasks to automate—and one of the most important

Ford’s Jim Buczkowski is a top researcher, a company executive, and an avid consumer electronics beta tester

An education researcher tallies the pluses and minuses of gamification

New research can detect five different emotions with 81 percent accuracy

Technology is gutting the middle of the market, and five other myths about jobs

That is, this is a pair of custom-made skis, when designed by a computer

Computer scientist Robert Watson, putting security first, wants to design with a “clean slate”

A Washington, D.C., committee wants to phase out traditional telephony worldwide, by June 2018

New license-plate video cameras are tracking millions of us as we drive around

Usability guru Jakob Nielsen says Microsoft’s new OS takes a giant step backward

Beneath the overhyped fears, there are real issues—backbone policies, cybersecurity, the free flow of information—at a major telecom conference

The Icelandic Constitutional Assembly relied on social media in drafting a new constitution