The physicist William Shockley is perhaps today best known for three things: his role in the invention of the transistor, his calamitous management of Shockley Semiconductor which led to a mass ...

Dale Earnhardt Jr. and Bob Pockrass explained why NASCAR will shift focus at Darlington Raceway while still allowing throwback schemes.

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Quantum technology has reached a turning point, echoing the early days of modern computing. Researchers say functional quantum systems now exist, but scaling them into truly powerful machines will ...

Residents in Darlington say weeks of electrical works have left their streets in “chaos,” with many claiming they were not warned beforehand. The work, carried out by Northern Powergrid as part of a ...

This year’s top semiconductor stories were mostly about the long and twisting trips a technology takes from idea (or even raw material) to commercial deployment. I’ve been at IEEE Spectrum long enough ...