Thursday, October 8, 2026

IEEE Report Predicts Tech That Will Transform Lives

By 2028, genetic engineering and gene therapy will be used frequently to treat a variety of diseases, thanks to advances in artificial intelligence, according to the recently released 2030 Technology Megatrends Report from IEEE.“We are seeing a fundamental shift in how technology evolves,” says IEEE Fellow Dejan Milojicic, chair of the IEEE Future Directions Committee’s…

Changing Your Career Isn’t Easy

This article is crossposted from IEEE Spectrum’s careers newsletter. Sign up now to get insider tips, expert advice, and practical strategies, written in partnership with tech career development company Parsity and delivered to your inbox for free!When I changed careers at 30 to become a software engineer, I expected it to be hard. I expected…

When Did People Arrive in the Americas?

LAWRENCE, KANSAS—Bethany Potter of the University of Kansas and her colleagues reviewed migration models for the arrival of modern humans in the Americas, Phys.org reports. They then compared the possible arrival times—either before the Last Glacial Maximum, more than 25,000 years ago; during the Last Glacial Maximum, between 20,000 and 14,000 years ago; or after…

Roman Settlement Found Near Ancient Fort in Germany
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Roman Settlement Found Near Ancient Fort in Germany

Victoria statue HESSE, GERMANY—Live Science reports that a temple dedicated to Mars, the Roman god of war, has been uncovered in Germany’s Taunus Mountains near the site of the Kapersburg Roman Fort. The fort was constructed in the early second century A.D. and was occupied until about A.D. 275. The temple was part of a…

Happy IEEE Day!

Happy IEEE Day 2026!IEEE Day is an annual event that celebrates the first time in history when engineers worldwide gathered to share their technical ideas in 1884.One of the IEEE Day’s objectives is to show the ways IEEE members, in local communities, join together to collaborate on ideas that leverage technology for a better tomorrow.…

Large-Scale Pottery Workshop Uncovered in France
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Large-Scale Pottery Workshop Uncovered in France

HAUTS-DE-FRANCE, FRANCE—A complete Roman pottery workshop laid out on a grid has been discovered in northern France by archaeologists led by Louis Florin of the French National Institute of Preventive Archaeological Research (INRAP), according to a report in La Brújula Verde. The five-acre site was occupied between the first century B.C. and the third century…

Did Egypt’s First Pharaohs Demand Human Sacrifice?
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Did Egypt’s First Pharaohs Demand Human Sacrifice?

ABYDOS, EGYPT—In the 4th Dynasty (ca. 2575–2465 B.C.) of Egypt’s Old Kingdom, pharaohs were building the most impressive funerary monuments on earth, the pyramids. Their predecessors in the 1st Dynasty (ca. 3078–2900 B.C.) also constructed grand tombs surrounded by hundreds of subsidiary burials at the Umm el-Qa’ab cemetery of Abydos. According to a report in…