IEEE's 2030 Technology Megatrends Report, built from 166 experts in 38 countries, forecasts frequent use of gene therapy by 2028. The dates are graded expert opinion, good for seeing where specialists expect medicine and energy to go and a weaker guide to timing than clinical trials.
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- Evidence30
- Adoption
- Insufficient
- Hype gap+35
- Incentives55
- Confidence40
Delhi cut its grid's electricity losses from about 50% to 5% over 25 years, IEEE Spectrum reports. For countries still losing a tenth or more of their power, the case shows that cutting losses can meet part of rising demand, though it takes decades.
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- Evidence55
- Adoption
- Insufficient
- Hype gap+10
- Incentives30
- Confidence55
IEEE has named its 2027 Technical Field Award winners, and seven of the first 16 listed are IEEE Life Fellows. Most citations credit work already in drives, chips, networks and clinics, so the awards map settled engineering and say little about AI.
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- Evidence75
- Adoption
- Insufficient
- Hype gap+15
- Incentives45
- Confidence60
Delhi cut grid losses from over 50 percent in 2002 to 5 to 6 percent in 2026, according to a power-systems professor at Jamia Millia Islamia. The professor offers Delhi as a model for high-loss grids in 11 countries, with the steps that produced the result set out after the figures.
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- Evidence45
- Adoption
- Insufficient
- Hype gap+20
- Incentives
- Insufficient
- Confidence40
A March court filing shows DHS collected the fee on 85 applications in five months and took in about $28 million less than the year before, while all 25 tech companies IEEE Spectrum asked about their response stayed quiet.
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- Evidence62
- Adoption40
- Hype gap+25
- Incentives55
- Confidence55
In IEEE Spectrum's account of the 2026 compute market, reasoning and agentic workloads have pushed serving toward memory-heavy silicon, and Amazon now runs a single inference job across two vendors' chips.
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- Evidence47
- Adoption55
- Hype gap+24
- Incentives66
- Confidence46
buildOne report1 publisher A Form D records securities sold as of its filing date. Persona AI's puts $65.36 million against a $141.96 million target, with $76.6 million still to sell and pre-production shipyard deliveries due at the end of 2026.
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- Evidence62
- Adoption10
- Hype gap+12
- Incentives55
- Confidence55
Australia moved minor protection off parents and self-regulation and onto the platforms themselves. The early evidence on whether children actually lost access points in two directions.
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- Evidence45
- Adoption58
- Hype gap+25
- Incentives30
- Confidence45
IEEE Spectrum reports the ALOHAnet codeveloper died on 14 April at 91. The 1971 network let computers on separate Hawaiian islands transmit on one shared UHF channel with no central coordinator.
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- Evidence58
- Adoption34
- Hype gap+12
- Incentives48
- Confidence66
NASA's space nuclear propulsion chief engineer says a bimodal design could nearly halve the time a Mars crew spends in space. The physics dates to the 1960s, and so does the test data.
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- Evidence34
- Adoption9
- Hype gap+46
- Incentives78
- Confidence44