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3G’s Sunset Takes Aging Cars and Medical Devices With It

1 Μαρτίου 2022 by paulkokos

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AT&T shut down its 3G network in the United States on 22 February—a process called “sunsetting.” It’s the first of the three major carriers in the country to do so. T-Mobile will be shutting down its 3G network on 1 July, while Verizon has announced it will be doing the…

Why We Built a Neuromorphic Robot to Play Foosball

27 Φεβρουαρίου 2022 by paulkokos

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For the past 25 years or so, those of us who seek to mimic the brain’s workings in silicon have held an annual workshop in the mountain town of Telluride, Colo. During those summer weeks, you can often find the participants unwinding at the bar of the New Sheridan Hotel…

Video Friday: Markobot

25 Φεβρουαρίου 2022 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 friends at IEEE Spectrum robotics. 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!):ICRA…

Behind Intel’s HPC Chip that Will Pierce the Exascale Barrier

25 Φεβρουαρίου 2022 by paulkokos

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On Monday, Intel unveiled new details of the processor that will power the Aurora supercomputer, which is designed to become the one of the first U.S.-based high-performance computers (HPCs) to pierce the exaflop barrier—a billion billion high-precision floating point calculations per second. Intel Fellow Wilfred Gomes told engineers virtually attending…

From Home Brew to Hasbro

25 Φεβρουαρίου 2022 by paulkokos

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Twenty years ago, just after the dot com meltdown, I was working as a consultant and had lots of free time on my hands. I started indulging in my hobby of building robots, and subsequently met up with other like-minded people at the Silicon Valley Home Brew Robotics Club. One…

RISC-V AI Chips Will Be Everywhere

25 Φεβρουαρίου 2022 by paulkokos

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The adoption of RISC-V, a free and open-source computer instruction-set architecture first introduced in 2010, is taking off like a rocket. And much of the fuel for this rocket is coming from demand for AI and machine learning. According to the research firm Semico, the number of chips that include…

Long-Enduring COBOL May Still Have A Shelf Life

24 Φεβρουαρίου 2022 by paulkokos

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Sid Mohanram, Senior Vice President of Software Engineering at Verisk, a huge data-analytics and risk-assessment multinational, is overseeing his company’s migration away from COBOL. He’s part of a trend as companies and governments are exploring other options than the programming language that runs some of the world’s most critical applications.“The…

Qubits’ Entanglement Must be Protected—is the Answer Math?

23 Φεβρουαρίου 2022 by paulkokos

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Quantum computers can theoretically find the answers to problems no classical computer could ever solve, but they rely on a delicate state known as entanglement that is vulnerable to disruption from its surroundings. Now scientists reveal that so-called "photonic topological insulators" could help protect entanglement for potential use in quantum…

Mining Waste for Rare Earth Elements

22 Φεβρουαρίου 2022 by paulkokos

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Researchers have devised a simple technique to recover treasured rare earth elements (REEs) from trash. Heating electronic and industrial waste to intensely hot temperatures with flashes of electricity can extract more than twice the amount of REEs from the material than has been possible with previous techniques.REEs, a group of…

BattleBots: Coping with Carnage

19 Φεβρουαρίου 2022 by paulkokos

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If you've haven't seen last night's episode of Discovery's BattleBots yet, you might want to stop reading this until later because—spoiler alert—we got destroyed. Poor Ghost Raptor faced off against the Robotic Death Company's Cobalt and was left in dismembered pieces on the floor of the arena. Now that the…

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