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Facebook's Plans for Space Lasers Revealed

21 Ιανουαρίου 2019 by paulkokos

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The technology giant appears to be quietly building laser satellites for global communicationsThe snow-dusted peak of Mount Wilson in California has been home to many famous observatories. Until 1949, its 100-inch Hooker telescope was the largest aperture telescope in the world, and in 2004, its CHARA array became the world’s…

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RoadBotics’ AI Could Change the Way Cities Maintain Roads

21 Ιανουαρίου 2019 by paulkokos

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By automating assessments of road conditions, RoadBotics could help cities save time and money‘Tis the season for potholes. When temperatures drop, the expansion and contraction of water that seeps into cracks in asphalt can create giant tire-chompers. But these problem spots are too often the final result of damage that has…

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Video Friday: AMBIDEX Cable-Driven Robot Arm, and More

18 Ιανουαρίου 2019 by paulkokos

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Your weekly selection of awesome robot videosVideo Friday is your weekly selection of awesome robotics videos, collected by your Automaton bloggers. We’ll also be posting a weekly calendar of upcoming robotics events for the next few months; here’s what we have so far (send us your events!): HRI 2019 – March…

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A Smart Device Needs to be Useful, Not Just Clever

18 Ιανουαρίου 2019 by paulkokos

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With artificial intelligence and voice control, smart microwaves, cameras, and doorbells, could finally catch on Illustration: James Steinberg Over the holidays, droves of consumers bought video doorbells, connected lights, and smart outlets that work with Amazon’s Alexa, Apple’s HomeKit, or Google Home. Plenty of people unwrapped connected speakers and image-processing cameras…

Zimbabwe Government Blocks Internet to Suppress Protests, Cuts Power as a Result

18 Ιανουαρίου 2019 by paulkokos

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This latest example of a government restricting Internet access to control its citizenry had unintended consequencesThe government of Zimbabwe cut its citizen’s access to the Internet for 24 hours beginning mid-morning Tuesday in a bid to quell violent protests on Monday over government-ordered doubling of both petrol and diesel fuel…

May Mobility's Self-Driving Shuttles Hit the Streets of Ohio

17 Ιανουαρίου 2019 by paulkokos

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Columbus is piloting a fleet of autonomous electric shuttles as part of a multimillion-dollar smart transportation initiativeVisitors to Columbus, Ohio, have a new way to see the city’s downtown attractions. A fleet of electric, self-driving vehicles now shuttle passengers around a cluster of museums and parks, using sensors and software…

Delivery Drones Use Bird-Inspired Legs to Jump Into the Air

17 Ιανουαρίου 2019 by paulkokos

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Passerine's fixed-wing drones can take off (and land) using a pair of legsDrones have a fundamental design problem. The kind of drone that can carry large payloads at high speeds over long distances is fundamentally different from the kind of drone that can take off and land from a small…

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Introduction to the NI mmWave Transceiver System Hardware

17 Ιανουαρίου 2019 by paulkokos

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The number of new wireless devices continues to escalate and the amount of data consumed continues to grow at an exponential rateOverview Wireless technology is everywhere. Every day more and more new wireless devices are being created and accessing today’s wireless networks, consuming more and more data. The number of…

Demand and Salaries for Data Scientists Continue to Climb

17 Ιανουαρίου 2019 by paulkokos

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Data science job openings are expanding faster than the number of technologists looking for them, says job-search firm IndeedBack in August, a LinkedIn analysis concluded that the United States is facing a significant shortage of data scientists, a big change from a surplus in 2015. This week, job-search firm Indeed reported…

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Hail the Perovskite Transistors

17 Ιανουαρίου 2019 by paulkokos

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Researchers have created a field-effect transistor using a single-crystal, “paint-on” perovskiteTransistors, and the conductive traces that connect them, are routinely created by the billions on the surface of silicon wafers, which are later cut into the individual “chips” that power our computers, phones, watches, and countless other electronic gadgets. But…

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