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The Consumer Electronics Hall of Fame: Tandy/RadioShack TRS-80 Model 1

6 Δεκεμβρίου 2018 by paulkokos

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RadioShack hoped PC sales would offset the income decline caused by waning interest in CB radios Photo: Computer History Museum Borrowed Peripherals: The original TRS-80 came with 4K of RAM and a mass storage system that was, essentially, a RadioShack cassette player. The monitor was an RCA black-and-white television set with…

Industrial HMI in a package

6 Δεκεμβρίου 2018 by paulkokos

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This webinar will discuss the design environment around RZ/A embedded MPUs including the new RZ/A Software Package.Once you upgrade to the high-end MPU space, ease-of-use is typically lost, as architectures and software environments bear their inherent complexities. But with MCUs clearly showing performance limitations, designers aiming to upgrade to high-performance…

IHMC Teaches Atlas to Walk Like a Human

6 Δεκεμβρίου 2018 by paulkokos

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Humans walk with straight legs and most robots don't, but IHMC is teaching Atlas to do betterHumanoid robots have a very distinctive walk. Knees bent, torso as stationary as possible. Even Boston Dynamics’ own Atlas uses this crouching sort of squat-walk to get around, because those perpetually bent legs are how…

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How Will the U.S. Military Use the Hololens on the Front Line?

5 Δεκεμβρίου 2018 by paulkokos

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Adapting Microsoft's mixed reality technology to meet soldiers' needs could be challenging, one expert saysIn the near future, U.S. soldiers could be relying on Microsoft’s mixed reality Hololens technology to give them the edge. Last week, Bloomberg News reported that Microsoft had won a US $480 million contract from the…

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ASML Developing Next-Gen EUV Lithography

5 Δεκεμβρίου 2018 by paulkokos

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Productivity gains will continue through the next two or three chip generations, but after that we’ll need something bigger and betterASML vice president Anthony Yen says that ASML has begun development of the extreme ultraviolet lithography machine his company believes will be needed to continue shrinking the features of silicon…

Norwegian Telecos Set New Record for Download Speeds in a Tunnel

5 Δεκεμβρίου 2018 by paulkokos

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Their goal is to allow passengers to keep streaming videos, even when their train passes through a tunnelIf you’ve ever tried to stream a video on your mobile device while traveling by train, you may be familiar with the sense of dread that tunnels inspire: right in the middle of…

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The U.S. National Academies Reports on the Prospects for Quantum Computing

5 Δεκεμβρίου 2018 by paulkokos

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Experts in the field give a hard-headed assessment of just how hard the technology isIn November, IEEE Spectrum published an expert-written feature titled, “The Case Against Quantum Computing.” In it, the author, Mikhail Dyakonov, defended his view that practical general-purpose quantum computers would not be built anytime in the foreseeable…

This Plant Is Driving Its Own Robot

5 Δεκεμβρίου 2018 by paulkokos

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A robot that can detect a plant's electrochemical signals goes where the plant wants it to goCybernetics usually refers to humans enhancing themselves with robotic parts. Sometimes, we heard about animal-robot cyborgs, or insect-robot cyborgs. It’s not all that often that we hear about plant-robot cyborgs, because what’s a plant…

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Stopping a Wildfire with a Low-Cost Sensor Network

4 Δεκεμβρίου 2018 by paulkokos

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Three twenty-somethings—one from Ecuador, one from France, and one from India—teamed up in Silicon Valley to tackle the challenge of spotting a wildfire before it gets out of controlNow that the smoke from the November fires that burned huge swaths of California has begun to clear, talk has turned to how…

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Jibo Is Probably Totally Dead Now

3 Δεκεμβρίου 2018 by paulkokos

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The pioneering social robot company has sold its IP and assets, meaning that this is pretty much the endIn some very sad but not at all surprising news considering how things have been going for social robots lately, The Robot Report is, er, reporting that Jibo Inc. has completed sale…

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