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On June 1, Ukraine attacked several Russian military bases, causing billions of dollars in damages to some of Russia's best bombers. Ukraine's drones succeed by using AI in their navigation to locate their targets through jamming signals. https://spectrum.ieee.org/ukraine-killer-drones

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Boston Dynamics’ Spot robot now uses AI to explain its processes. With Google’s Gemini-ER onboard, Spot interacts with the real world and explains what its doing step by step so that anyone can understand.

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Kvertus, a Ukrainian electronic warfare company, is developing a 1,500-kilometer-long “wall” of detectors and jammers to block Russian drones. This will provide protection from devastating drone attacks.

https://spectrum.ieee.org/electronic-warfare-ukraine

Scientists at UT Austin have found a way to store and read data from polymers, molecules that make plastics. The main breakthrough is their ability to read the data with a portable electrochemical system that could one day fit on a circuit board. https://spectrum.ieee.org/plastic-data-storage

“The whole system of air defense was designed to fight huge things like ballistic missiles,” says Ukraine’s deputy minister of digital transformation, Oleksandr Bornyakov. “But with the usage of drones, the mathematics have completely changed.” Ukraine is developing new air defense strategies for modern drone attacks.
https://spectrum.ieee.org/ukraine-air-defense

VR now has a new sense: touch! Shiftly is a shape-shifting device that can accompany a VR headset, allowing users to feel their virtual experiences as well as see them. It uses origami-inspired elements to quickly change its shape. https://spectrum.ieee.org/vr-haptic-feedback-origami

Dropping your phone in the toilet may seem like a modern problem, but water interfering with technology actually goes a long way back. It started in the 1900s with babies chewing on telephone lines, and it informs how we create electronics today.
https://spectrum.ieee.org/license-to-spill

Opera is offering an AI-powered web browser to users of its affordable Opera Mini all over the world, including in parts of the world often ignored by larger technology brands. Aria, the AI assistant, works in over 50 languages and is built for speed.
https://spectrum.ieee.org/agentic-ai-opera-mini

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