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IEEE Spectrum January 2013 Lawrence Ulrich	Carbon-Fiber Cars BMW will introduce the first affordable cars made with superlight carbon composites. Government fuel-economy regulations are largely driving this structural revolution, making "lightweighting" one of the biggest automotive trends around the world.
IEEE Spectrum January 2013 Rachel Courtland	Gaia Telescope Will Map the Milky Way The European Space Agency project will change how astronomers view our galaxy
IEEE Spectrum January 2013 Eliza Strickland	IBM's Watson Goes to Med School This AI program mastered "Jeopardy!" Next up, oncology. IBM scientists hope health care will be the killer app for Watson, an AI with phenomenal skills in natural-language processing.
IEEE Spectrum January 2013 Katherine Bourzac	Intel Inside...Your Smartphone With Silvermont, the chip giant may finally get a grip on the mobile market
IEEE Spectrum January 2013 Glenn Zorpette	Lighter, Brighter Displays Electrowetting combines the best of LCD and E Ink. The Korean technology colossus Samsung will be the first to market a display based on electrowetting.
IEEE Spectrum January 2013 Tekla S. Perry	OLED TV Arrives For the past decade, two television display technologies -- liquid crystal and plasma -- have fought for supremacy, and although the LCD won the battle, it is about to lose the war. A third contender's is the organic light-emitting diode, or OLED.
IEEE Spectrum January 2013 Eliza Strickland	The Great Canal of China The South-to-North Water Diversion Project will realize an old dream of Mao Zedong: to bring water from monsoon-swept lands, where it's plentiful, to the north's booming industrial cities, where it's not.
IEEE Spectrum January 2013 David Kushner	The Sony PS4: Less Dazzle, More Social The big makers of game consoles will renew their rivalry, and Sony has a chip on its shoulder
IEEE Spectrum January 2013	Under the Radar: 7 Stories to Watch In 2013 Other technical advances worth keeping an eye on this year include a gesture based user interface technology and improved capabilities for unmanned planes.
IEEE Spectrum January 2013 William Sweet	Could Fusion Clean Up Nuclear Waste? Physicists propose a marriage of fusion and fission reactors that could save both technologies
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