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DARPA’S $1.5-Billion Remake of U.S. Electronics: Progress Report

27 Ιουνίου 2019 by paulkokos

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Agency is adding security and AI design to a mix meant to boost U.S. industryAbout a year ago, the U.S. Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency pulled back the covers on its five-year, $1.5-billion scheme to remake the U.S. electronics industry. The Electronics Resurgence Initiative included efforts in “aggressive specialization” for chip…

Solar-Powered RoboBee X-Wing Flies Untethered

26 Ιουνίου 2019 by paulkokos

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Just this week, in this very galaxy, X-Wing achieves liftoffThe first generation of robotic bees were designed to be very bee-like, featuring two flapping wings at bee scale. After all, bees can do a lot with two wings, so why can’t robots? Turns out there are a lot of reasons…

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Racing Toward Yottabyte Information

26 Ιουνίου 2019 by paulkokos

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Yotta, yotta, yotta—that’s the Greek prefix we’ll soon need to describe the vastness of our data archives—yotta, yotta, yotta Illustration: Stuart Bradford Once upon a time, information was deposited only inside human brains, and ancient bards could spend hours retelling stories of conflicts and conquests. Then external data storage was…

Race and Age Impact Tech Salaries

26 Ιουνίου 2019 by paulkokos

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Hired study concludes Asian tech workers leapt ahead while their black counterparts slipped further behind; U.S. engineering salaries plateau at age 40In 2018, the salaries offered Asian tech workers in the United States surpassed those offered to their white counterparts for the first time. Meanwhile, salaries offered black tech professionals slipped…

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Early Soyuz Spacecraft Had a Peculiar User Interface, Says Charles Simonyi

26 Ιουνίου 2019 by paulkokos

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The legendary developer went to space twice, and couldn’t help but notice the capsule’s quirky virtual interfaceCharles Simonyi earned his place in history as part of the team that developed the Bravo word processing program at Xerox Parc. Bravo was the first What-You-See-is-What-You-Get (WYSIWIG) word processing program, which let you work…

Harnessing the Public’s Smartphones to Track Drones

26 Ιουνίου 2019 by paulkokos

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This proposed crowdsensing approach for tracking drones allows participants to make some side cash aside.inlay.xlrg.XploreFree { font-family: "Georgia", serif; border-width: 4px 0; border-top: solid #888; border-bottom: solid #888; padding: 10px 0; font-size: 19px; font-weight: bold; text-align: center; } span.FreeRed { color: red; text-transform: uppercase; font-family: "Theinhardt-Medium", sans-serif; } span.XploreBlue {…

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Boing Goes the Trampoline Robot

26 Ιουνίου 2019 by paulkokos

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If you can't afford a fancy quadruped with springy legs, just use a springy floor insteadThere are a handful of quadrupedal robots out there that are highly dynamic, with the ability to run and jump, but those robots tend to be rather expensive and complicated, requiring powerful actuators and legs…

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Mexican Startup's Earthquake Warning System Provides a 30-Second Head Start

25 Ιουνίου 2019 by paulkokos

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The IoT-based system can also turn off the gas, turn on emergency lights, and unlock the doors while you head for safetyAt 3:07 pm last Thursday, inside Fire Station 6 in Menlo Park, Calif., an alarm sounded, followed by an announcement over the loudspeaker: “Earthquake warning. Severe shaking expected in 30…

ANSYS 5G Antenna Solutions

25 Ιουνίου 2019 by paulkokos

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Accelerate Antenna Design with ANSYS 5G Simulation SolutionsANSYS 5G simulation solutions empower you to solve your most complex challenges for the 5G ecosystem from devices to networks to data centers. ANSYS tools simulate antenna-to-antenna coupling and environmental effects on signal propagation to improve capacity and data rates for wireless applications. Customers…

This AI Watched 100 Films to Learn How to Recognize a Kiss

24 Ιουνίου 2019 by paulkokos

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A senior data scientist at Netflix trained an AI to detect kissing scenes in films—and had to take precautions to make sure the model didn’t confuse kissing with sexLike someone who has never been kissed, AI began learning the basics by binge-watching romantic film clips to see how Hollywood stars lock lips. By training deep…

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