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by Amy Nordrum on (#2VXVK)
A prototype from the University of Washington leverages a backscattered radiofrequency wave to transmit analog signals
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Your weekly selection of awesome robot videos
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Nanowire circuit boards that dissolve in cold water have some truly sci-fi applications
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The atomic vibrations in a material and its electrons are much closely bound than previously thought
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The inventor of the Roomba tells us about his new solar-powered, weed-destroying robot
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Attend this webcast to learn the measurement techniques, tricks and tools necessary to measure low currents and high resistances with high measurement confidence and repeatability.
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A huge jump in traffic congestion in Jakarta shows how valuable carpooling had been—before the government ended it
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A 3D stack of silicon logic, resistive RAM, nanotube circuits, and sensors uses new architecture and devices to save energy
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Social and computer scientists parse online bot discourse
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Using robots to dig holes for infrastructure installation could put an end to road work
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It's the first major carmaker to switch to electric drive, starting in model year 2019
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For first time, scientists can peer deep into silicon to image atoms far from the surface without damaging the sample
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Shifting to a longer wavelength that's safer for the eye lets Luminar raise its lidar power enough to stretch its range beyond 200 meters. Other innovations could cut system costs.
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by Evan Ackerman on (#2VQBW)
Self-driving cars in Australia are preparing to handle kangaroos, but what about autonomous cars everywhere else?
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With an easy-to-use interface based on Scratch, you can now command Anki's Cozmo to do complex tasks without any programming experience
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by Amy Nordrum on (#2VCFP)
It looks a lot different than its decentralized predecessors. Can it last?
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by Mark Anderson on (#2VC89)
This week’s Ukrainian malware attack cribbed from last month’s ‘WannaCry’ ransomware outbreak—but foreshadows worse to come
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Mouser and Grant Imahara team up with the creative minds at WIRED Brand Lab to take a look at the modern city
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Using an unproven new architecture, this processor put Sun Microsystems on the map
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Intersil’s somewhat cranky chip brought complex sound generation to consumer electronics
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The world’s first speech synthesizer on chip—and accidental supporting star of E.T.
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Inexpensive and small, this GPS receiver turbocharged the market for integrated navigation in mobile devices
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Once, all bulk data storage was magnetic. Then along came flash
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Ahead of its time, this chip heralded the mobile era when energy use, not processing power, would become the most important spec
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Reading this on a smartphone? Then you’re using a direct descendant of this processor right now
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This chip put digital signal processors—specialists in handling the messy world outside the computer—on the map
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The “castrated†processor that birthed the IBM PC
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Hardware that can transform itself on command has proven incredibly useful
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An Oscar-winning invention brought digital video to movie theaters
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This solid-state, high-power amp brought big sound to inexpensive devices
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The chip that brought digital photography outside the lab
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Deep Blue’s logic chip powered the first major victory of an AI over a human
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A humble timer chip that became the Swiss Army knife of countless circuits
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Freeing processors from doing the grunt work of communications accelerated the connected world
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Clean coal technology suffered a setback when efforts to start up the gasification portion of an IGCC plant in Mississippi were halted
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The phenomena created in which ultrasonic waves with high frequencies are produced are difficult to capture in a model. This whitepaper discusses how Maple’s advanced calculation capabilities supported this process
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As fictional geniuses in HBO's "Silicon Valley" seek to reinvent the Internet, Mozilla and the NSF offer $2 million in prizes to decentralize it in the real world
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Reading listings on the bulletin-board system was free, but posting cost a quarter
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Nanotubes offer a path towards meeting an ITRS benchmark a decade from now
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by Emily Waltz on (#2V90E)
British researchers cure a man's rare eye disorder by implanting magnets beneath his eyes
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The solid-state transformer is poised to remake the electrical distribution grid
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Millions of conventional cars rolling off assembly lines today could benefit from automated driving technologies. But where are the startups to build those systems?
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The extreme saltatorial skills of this "hyper-aggressive pogo-stick" will amaze you
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by Vaclav Smil on (#2V6BJ)
How good is the return? Try 44-fold—yep, that’s 4,400 percent
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by Amy Nordrum on (#2V5XF)
Hedge funds are testing new quantitative strategies that could supplant traditional fund managers
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by Jeremy Hsu on (#2V5M4)
To respond to a plague of drones, airports and other venues deploy AI systems to track and identify intruders
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by Tekla S. Perry on (#2V3X1)
HAX’s Ben Joffe takes a look at what’s going on in China’s startup sector
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by Evan Ackerman on (#2V3FT)
A dataset of 6.7 million robust point clouds and grasps can train your neural network to reliably pick up objects
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by Stephen Cass on (#2V3AW)
Jimmy Soni and Rob Goodman wrote the first biography of the digital pioneer
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