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Speculation in the Metaverse

31 Ιανουαρίου 2022 by paulkokos

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In late November of 2021, a 6,090-square-foot (566 square-meter) parcel, located within the evocatively named “Fashion Street” district of an up-and-coming development called Decentraland sold for U.S. $2.43 million. You might imagine this lot was in downtown San Francisco, New York, or London. In fact, Decentraland is located nowhere. It’s…

The Plan to Give the Moon Decent Wireless Coverage

30 Ιανουαρίου 2022 by paulkokos

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Earth’s moon is the target of more missions than at any time since the Apollo era, by both space agencies and commercial entities. NASA, for example, has plans to visit the moon using both robots and humans, and is also considering—with international collaborators—a small orbiting outpost in the next decade.…

How to Prevent Blackouts by Packetizing the Power Grid

29 Ιανουαρίου 2022 by paulkokos

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Bad things happen when demand outstrips supply. We learned that lesson too well at the start of the pandemic, when demand for toilet paper, disinfecting wipes, masks, and ventilators outstripped the available supply. Today, chip shortages continue to disrupt the consumer electronics, automobile, and other sectors. Clearly, balancing the supply…

AI Screens Out Robocallers

28 Ιανουαρίου 2022 by paulkokos

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Last year, the US government got serious about snuffing out robocalls. Effective 30 June 2021, the FCC mandated that phone providers verify all callers’ IDs with a cryptography-based protocol called STIR/SHAKEN. Anyone expecting robocalls to vanish in a puff of regulation will be disappointed. But relief may be coming, gradually.…

Video Friday: Apple Drone

28 Ιανουαρίου 2022 by paulkokos

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Video 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 2022: 23–27 May 2022, PhiladelphiaERF 2022:…

DARPA’s RACER Program Sends High-Speed, Autonomous Vehicles Off-Road

28 Ιανουαρίου 2022 by paulkokos

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DARPA has announced the first phase of a shiny new program called RACER, which stands for Robotic Autonomy in Complex Environments with Resiliency. I’m not sure why they couldn’t have just left it at RACE, but that’s government backronyms for you. Anyway, the RACER program is all about high-speed driving…

BattleBots: Behind The Scenes With Ghost Raptor

27 Ιανουαρίου 2022 by paulkokos

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As a fashiontech designer, I spend a lot of time making sure my designs are safe, whether it's a robotic spider dress, or a prosthetic leg with a built-in Tesla coil and spark gaps. So when I got invited to help update a robot designed to kill other robots in…

For Quantum Computing, Is 99 Percent Accuracy Enough?

27 Ιανουαρίου 2022 by paulkokos

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Teams of researchers at Delft University of Technology in the Netherlands, RIKEN in Japan, and the University of New South Wales (UNSW) in Sydney, Australia, have developed different quantum devices in silicon with operational fidelity greater than 99 percent. Their work was published separately in Nature on January 20. The…

Water Scarcity Concerns Drive Semiconductor Industry to Adopt New Technologies

25 Ιανουαρίου 2022 by paulkokos

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In these days of seemingly neverending chip shortages, more and greater varieties of semiconductors are in demand. Chip fabs around the world are now racing to catch up to the world's many microelectronic needs. And chip fabs need a lot of water to operate. By some estimates, a large chip…

Meta Aims to Build the World's Fastest AI Supercomputer

25 Ιανουαρίου 2022 by paulkokos

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Meta, parent company of Facebook, says it has built a research supercomputer that is among the fastest on the planet. By the middle of this year, when an expansion of the system is complete, it will be the fastest, Meta researchers Kevin Lee and Shubho Sengupta write in a blog…

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