God no they are a shit show. Having been an EE years ago I stopped reading any journals and research. 99.9% of it is garbage which is engineered to sell attention rather than a better future.

Anything worth giving attention to turns up in EDN when a product comes to market after someone took it serious enough to actually invest in it. Then you pay attention.

My favourite recent thing is chip scale atomic clocks: https://www.microsemi.com/product-directory/clocks-frequency...

You can actually buy them!m

Edit: the worst garbage is actually IET’s E&T Magazine. That’s horse dung.