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At a demo with live pigs, @elonmusk said that his company @Neuralink had built a self-contained neural implant that can transmit detailed brain activity without the aid of external hardware. “It’s like a Fitbit in your skull with tiny wires,” Musk said.

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Here's what @timnitGebru and @alexhanna are planning with their new AI research institute, @DAIRInstitute

Timnit Gebru Is Building a Slow AI Movement

Her new organization, DAIR, will raise the alarm about how AI is being deployed today and use AI to speak truth to power.

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Jumping Robot Salto-1P Now Goes Where You Tell It To

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Japan is building a giant Gundam robot that can walk

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If there is a physical heart for Google’s many cloud services, it’s 16 huge data centers located in the Americas, Europe, and Asia.

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This study found that if @_akhaliq and @arankomatsuzaki tweet about an AI / ML paper, that paper will likely end up with higher citation numbers.

A Few Social Media Influencers Are Shaping AI

Tweets lead to attention, which leads to higher citation numbers

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IBM has become the first in the world to introduce a 2-nanometer (nm) node chip, which it claims will improve performance by 45% using the same amount of power and enables it to place 50 billion nanosheet transistors onto a chip the size of a fingernail.

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Quantum computers with cryogenics are hard to get to 100s of qubits. But Canadian startup @XanaduAI says their photon-based quantum machine is room temperature, cloud-accessible, Python programmable, and ready to scale.

In the Race to Hundreds of Qubits, Photons May Have "Quantum Advantage"

Canadian startup Xanadu says their quantum computer is cloud-accessible, Python programmable, and ready to scale

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Imagine flying an AI-powered, dual rotor helicopter, controlled in part by a semi-autonomous car. Now put that car & drone on #Mars . This is the incredible challenge of @NASA 's Ingenuity copter, landing on the red planet with #Perseverance very soon.

How NASA Designed a Helicopter That Could Fly Autonomously on Mars

The Perseverance rover's Mars Helicopter (Ingenuity) will take off, navigate, and land on Mars without human intervention

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The 2018 Top Programming Languages: #Python tightens its hold on the number one spot and Assembly enters the top 10 #TPL #softwaredevelopment

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Python, Java, and the C family are still the most popular first choices for programming, but backing one of them up with SQL is a smart move.

Top Programming Languages 2022

Python’s still No. 1, but employers love to see SQL skills

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Brazilian researchers have developed a way to use #AI to combine ancient maps and modern satellite images to bring history alive.

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The High School Student Who’s Building His Own Integrated Circuits

Sam Zeloof has turned his parent’s garage into a 1970s-era fab

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A German company that has developed an EV motor that requires no rare earth permanent magnets at all. Plus it's more efficient at high speeds. China has a near-monopoly on rare earths. Has the geopolitical #EV game just changed?

German EV Motor Could Break Supply-Chain Deadlock

Innovative design promises high performance without rare-earth magnets

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Generative AI Has a Visual Plagiarism Problem: @GaryMarcus and @Rahll experimented with @midjourney and @dalle_openai and found a copyright minefield.

Generative AI Has a Visual Plagiarism Problem

Experiments with Midjourney and DALL-E 3 show a copyright minefield

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Mojo Vision just unveiled contact lenses with built-in microdisplays and image sensors for augmented reality.

Augmented Reality in a Contact Lens: It’s the Real Deal

Startup Mojo Vision unveils working prototypes of AR contact lenses

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An AI-powered rat could be the neuroscience equivalent of a wind tunnel, allowing researchers to test different types of biologically inspired neural nets to see how well they perform.

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New "Ultrasound on a Chip" Tool Could Revolutionize Medical Imaging

Entrepreneur and disruptor Jonathan Rothberg launches an ultrasound tool from his latest company, Butterfly Networks

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On this day in 1968, @intel was founded by Robert Noyce and Gordon Moore. Though mainly focused on memory chips, the company also came up with the groundbreaking 4004 microprocessor. #TBT

Chip Hall of Fame: Intel 4004 Microprocessor

The first CPU-on-a-chip was a shoestring crash project

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Intel built an artificial nose based on its Loihi neuromorphic chip that can remember what it sniffs and recognize that smell in the future.

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NASA and MIT achieved the fastest space-to-ground laser communication yet—equivalent to transmitting 1,000 HD movies in five minutes!

NASA's Laser Link Boasts Record-Breaking 200 Gbps Speed

Researchers doubled the downlink record they set just last year

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Although the complementary FET is still as much as a decade away from commercialization, it's clearly the future of CMOS.

Intel, Samsung, and TSMC Demo 3D-Stacked Transistors

Big Three show they can all make 3D-stacked CFETs now

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#AI can seem super-intelligent when confined to narrow tasks. But how smart is it really? IQ tests from @fchollet , @kaggle , Anima Anandkumar, and Lior Wolf probe AI's ability to reason and generalize. #machinelearning

To Really Judge an AI's Smarts, Give it One of These IQ Tests

A variety of new tests seeks to assess AI's ability to reason and learn concepts

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Jacob Ziv will receive this year’s IEEE Medal of Honor. He developed the first major successful universal compression algorithms.

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Software vulnerabilities be damned. IoT devices may soon come with protection from hackers built into their mechanical and electrical designs

Darpa Hacks Its Secure Hardware, Fends Off Most Attacks

Darpa’s SSITH program aims for hardware architecture for IoT that’s immune to the seven major types of hardware hacks

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This hybrid of robot human and robot horse is designed to rescue you from disasters

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Flying DRAGON robot can change its shape to move through complex environments and even manipulate objects

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What Happened When We Took the SCiO Food Analyzer Grocery Shopping

Who needs infrared spectrometers in their phones? People who hate buying tasteless produce or mystery cheese

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This chameleon-inspired robotic tongue snatches nearby objects in the blink of an eye

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Sure, #CERN 's next-generation Future Circular Collider would be much bigger than the #LHC and be primed to test even more cutting-edge physics than its predecessor. But its #engineering would be monumental too. #dreamjob

CERN’s Future Collider Would Be an Engineer’s Dream Job

It’ll test cutting-edge physics, but using a lot of existing tech

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Japanese researchers have developed a single-photon source that requires no unusual materials and operates at room temperature. The road to a #quantum #internet has been made now a little shorter.

Single-Photon Source Marks Quantum Cryptography Gain

Unremarkable materials and temperatures mean remarkable progress

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IBM Simulates a 56-Qubit Machine

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Microsoft is working to scale up its quantum hardware.

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#AI hardware problem: Too much data to live in CPU/GPU, so it's constantly shuttled back and forth to DRAM, wasting lots of time. Solution? A new type of (capacitor-less) DRAM that can live in 3D layers above the CPU.

New Type of DRAM Could Accelerate AI

Capacitorless DRAM using oxide semiconductors could be built in 3D layers above a processor’s silicon

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How DeepMind Is Reinventing the Robot

Having conquered Go and protein folding, the company turns to a really hard problem

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"I tell my engineers that if they know I'm about to do something stupid, they have to tell me, so I don't do it," says Vint Cerf. Here's more of his advice for young engineers.

Vint Cerf’s Career Advice for Engineers

The Internet’s co-creator explains how to learn from everyone you meet and why young engineers should both listen and speak up.

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👨: Can I order one water? 🤖: Yes, that is permissible. 👨: Okay, can you bring me one water? 🤖: Yes, I am able to do that. 👨: May you bring me one water? 🤖: Yes, I am able to do that. 👨: I would like— 🤖: Please tell me your order. 🤦: ...

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Boston Dynamics' SpotMini Is All Electric, Agile, and Has a Capable Face-Arm

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A new concept called system technology co-optimization will power the coming decades of transistor development.

Intel’s Take on the Next Wave of Moore’s Law

Ann B. Kelleher explains what's new 75 years after the transistor's invention

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A new carbon nanotube processor is a milestone in the development of beyond-silicon technologies, its inventors say.

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The Guardian XO from @Sarcos_Robotics is a powered #exoskeleton that allows you to lift 200 pounds without breaking a sweat

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These glasses from Bosch use tiny lasers to project an image directly onto your retina.

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The problems with Boeing's 737 MAX are deeper than just bad software.

How the Boeing 737 Max Disaster Looks to a Software Developer

Design shortcuts meant to make a new plane seem like an old, familiar one are to blame

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Gallium nitride and silicon carbide are locked in a battle for supremacy in power electronics. But now researchers have shown a different way forward by building a supertransistor that incorporates both materials and combines the best features of each

Is This Insane Device the Future of Power Transistors?

An experimental device seems to combine the best features of gallium nitride and silicon carbide

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. @Boston Dynamics retired its hydraulic Atlas yesterday, making room for a brand new, all-electric Atlas destined for factory work.

Hello, Electric Atlas

Boston Dynamics introduces a fully electric humanoid robot that "exceeds human performance"

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This waist-mounted supernumerary robotic arm is gentle enough to pick fruit but powerful enough to punch through a wall. #ICRA2020

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New graphene metamaterial device absorbs non-polarized light so well the sun can heat it to 160 degrees C in mere seconds, good for harvesting solar energy and boiling water. #graphene #metamaterials #solar #solarpower

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Tomorrow’s Doctors Must Be Engineers Too

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The newest ultrasound technology is handheld, sends images directly to a computer or phone, can image any depth in the body in 3D, and does not require a bulky box on a cart. Here's how MEMS technology made it happen.

How Ultrasound Became Ultra small

With MEMS technology, all you need is one probe and a smartphone

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4 trillion transistors later...

Cerebras Unveils Its Next Waferscale AI Chip

AI startup to build new generation supercomputers, with Qualcomm on inferencing

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Until recently, AI researchers were all in on GPUs. A small but growing number are arguing that simpler CPUs deserve another chance to prove their worth. #AI

The Case for Running AI on CPUs Isn't Dead Yet

GPUs may dominate, but CPUs could be perfect for smaller AI models

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The chairman of TSMC forecasts a 1-trillion transistor AI accelerator by the end of the decade. It will be composed of 3D-integrated chiplets.

How We’ll Reach a 1 Trillion Transistor GPU

Advances in semiconductors are feeding the AI boom

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“We believe we’ve built an entirely new class of electric motors, and that hasn’t happened in maybe 30 years.”

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DURUS Brings Human-Like Gait (and Fancy Shoes) to Hyper-Efficient Robots

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One man using some sandpaper has opened up a hidden world inside everyday components.

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Limor Fried, founder of Adafruit, was experimenting with how she could use ChatGPT to help her with coding tasks when she discovered that the large language model was already using her particular coding style.

What to Do When the Ghost in the Machine Is You

Limor Fried’s code is often a de facto standard, and now ChatGPT is using it

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Video Friday: Faceless Humanoid, Robot Inside Eyeball, and Marc Raibert on Robotic Progress

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Everything you wanted to know about @BostonDynamics new Atlas, in our Q&A with CEO Robert Playter.

Q&A: Boston Dynamics’ Robert Playter on The New Atlas

Robert Playter, CEO of Boston Dynamics, answers our questions about the new robot

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Ghost Robotics' Minitaur Quadruped Robot Conquers Stairs, Doors, and Fences

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Today is Hugo Gernsback's birthday, born in 1884. A famous editor who coined the term "science fiction," Gernsback was also a frequent inventor. Here's a look back at his truly amazing 1963 VR googles, which he callled "teleyeglasses."

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Analog computers used to compete with digital computers, and they can still offer certain advantages, like energy efficiency. This new machine from @analogparadigm is designed to teach engineers how to combine analog with digital computing

Try This Brand New Analog Computer

The THAT machine is designed to encourage you to go beyond digital

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#TSMC has said it'll be accelerating a trend towards processors made from more and more silicon, leading quickly to systems the size of a full silicon wafer. In fact, such a system, #Tesla ’s next generation #Dojo training tile is already in production.

Expect a Wave of Waferscale Computers

TSMC tech allows for one version now, and a more advanced version in 2027

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Tomorrow, @ylecun will be talking about unsupervised learning at @MetaAI 's big event about using AI to build the metaverse. He gave IEEE Spectrum a preview of some of the themes in this Q&A:

Yann LeCun: AI Doesn't Need Our Supervision

When Yann LeCun, VP and chief AI scientist of Meta (formerly Facebook), gives talks, he's apt to include a slide showing a famous painting of a scene from the French Revolution. Superimposed over a...

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This system uses optical scans, microscopy, X-ray tomography, and artificial intelligence to compare a printed circuit board and its chips and components with the intended design.

This Tech Would Have Spotted the Secret Chinese Chip in Seconds

University of Florida engineers use X-rays, optical imaging, and AI to spot spy chips in computer systems

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With some used hardware and free software you can take surprisingly detailed images of the heavens without expensive telescopes or mounts

Electronically Assisted Astronomy on the Cheap

Take surprisingly detailed images of the heavens with budget hardware

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Microsoft’s head of AI4Science sees machine learning partially supplanting simulation. He calls it the "fifth paradigm" in the history of science.

Supercomputer Emulator—AI’s New Role in Science

“We see a new paradigm emerging. You can trace its origins back many decades, but it’s a different way of using machine learning in the natural sciences.” —Chris Bishop, Microsoft Research

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In 2023, #robotics as a field has advanced rapidly—yes humanoid robotics But also #Amazon solving knotty warehouse robotics problems, mind-bendingly fast drone races, and one of the most extreme robotic systems ever made. #Ingenuity #TopRobotics2023

Top Robotics Stories of 2023

IEEE Spectrum’s year in robots

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Scientists in Japan have pioneered a new kind of superconducting microprocessor (2.5 GHz) that uses 80 times less energy than conventional CPUs -- even after accounting for the energy expended in cooling it. A new direction for energy-efficient computing?

Superconducting Microprocessors? Turns Out They're Ultra-Efficient

The 2.5 GHz prototype uses 80 times less energy than its semiconductor counterpart, even accounting for cooling

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Michael I. Jordan says that people are getting confused about the meaning of AI in discussions of technology trends

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To build a network of computers, the creators of the ARPANET had to first figure out how to network themselves.

Today’s Internet Still Relies on an ARPANET-Era Protocol: The Request for Comments

The RFC may be the ARPANET’s most enduring legacy

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Traditional neural network chips like #Nvidia and #Intel #GPUs use electronic gates to perform #AI operations. A new chip, by contrast, integrates strengths of two optical AI approaches and scales energy usage back substantially.

AI Chip Trims Energy Budget Back by 99+ Percent

Photonic tech uses both diffraction and interference to boost performance

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Japanese and Swiss Researchers from Japan and Switzerland have created a kind of #analog computer that would use waves of electron spins ("spin waves"). The new research is bolstering hope in a resurgence of interest in a new approach to the once-discarded

Analog Computers May Work Better Using Spin Than Light

Spin waves offer a new approach to digital computing’s counterpart

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Quantum computing has fallen victim to a hype cycle, but there are actually applications where the computers could make an impact in the near future.

Here Are 6 Actual Uses for Near-Term Quantum Computers

Google and XPrize offer US $5 million to researchers who can find more

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Nvidia's GR00T (with each letter and number pronounced individually, perhaps to avoid the Mouse's wrath) is its new foundation AI model for humanoid robots. Nvidia also announced today that it would provide long-term support for the open-source ROS.

Nvidia Announces GR00T, a Foundation Model For Humanoids

The company also announces long-term support for the Robot Operating System

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Why Hire Engineers With Disabilities? They’re Practiced Problem Solvers

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Magnetic tape is a more reliable method of data storage than modern hard drives, with error rates that are four to five orders of magnitude lower than those of hard drives.

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Industrial and commercial applications are becoming the biggest market for the Raspberry Pi.

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When Japanese researchers unveiled Gakutensoku in the 1920s, the giant air-powered robot became a sensation. But then it mysteriously vanished.

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Earlier this year, @OpenAI announced its superalignment program, an ambitious effort to find ways to control superintelligent AI (which doesn't yet exist) and "align" it with human values. Today they've released their first results from that program. 🧵

OpenAI Demos a Control Method for Superintelligent AI

But because superintelligent AI doesn't exist yet, they tried it out on GPT-4

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Astrobee: NASA's Newest Robot for the International Space Station

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The Unix operating system emerged with the publication of its first programmer's manual, 46 years ago this week. From the archives, dive into the origins of what is arguably the most important operating system in the world.

The Strange Birth and Long Life of Unix

The classic operating system turns 40, and its progeny abound

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Bitcoin’s Biggest Tech Player to Release AI Chips and Computers

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The 2017 Top Programming Languages

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Germany’s Bonn-Rhein-Sieg University is offering a remote lab on field-programmable gate array for free.

German University Opens Up Its Hands-on Remote FPGA Lab During the Coronavirus Pandemic

Offered by Bonn-Rhein-Sieg University, students perform experiments with real hardware over the Internet

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Japanese researchers say turning cockroaches into an army of insect cyborgs could be useful in a variety of ways.

A Swarm of Cyborg Cockroaches That Lives in Your House

Japanese researchers say turning cockroaches into an army of insect cyborgs could be useful in a variety of ways

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While most autonomous cars use motion-planning systems running at around 10 Hz, a Boston startup has developed a system that runs at 1,000 Hz, going through a massive data lattice of possible trajectories in parallel.

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Charles Kao, who died in Hong Kong on Sunday, won the 2009 Nobel Prize in Physics for his pioneering work on fiber-optic communications.

Remembering the Remarkable Foresight of Charles Kao

Nobel laureate invented fiber-optic communications despite conventional wisdom of the time

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Researchers at #EPFL and #TokyoTech discovered that shining ultrafast laser light on glass can convert it to a transparent solar cell. The idea of glass as a solar panel is awakening new possibilities for both new energy and sensor technologies.

Shining Laser Light on Glass Creates a Solar Cell

New energy and sensor applications could await

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Hundreds of UV disinfection #robots from @UVDRobots are being shipped to Chinese hospitals to help fight the #coronavirus outbreak. The robots can navigate through rooms, up and down elevators, and perform the disinfection autonomously.

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In July 1958, Jack Kilby of Texas Instruments came up with a new idea: the integrated circuit.

July 1958: Kilby Conceives the Integrated Circuit

If you’re looking for a starting point for Moore’s Law, this is probably it

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Today's luxury cars contain 150 ECUs and more than 150 million lines of code. AS more #EVs hit the road with #AI doing the driving, the amount of code in cars is set to explode. How will carmakers cope with even more complexity?

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Anki shut down last year but its little home robots may not be dead. @DigitalDreamLab has acquired Anki's assets and plans to keep the robots alive.

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If battery pioneer John Goodenough and colleagues succeed, their non-flammable Li-ion battery (glass powder electrolyte) could be a game-changer for electronics. They claim it increases in capacity over more than 300 charge-discharge cycles. #batteries

John Goodenough’s Battery—and Work—Never Stopped Getting Better

A prototype solid-state battery based on lithium and glass faces controversy over claims that its capacity increases over time

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A computer science undergrad in Canada built an autocompletion tool based on natural language processing that works in 22 programming languages.

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Taking stock of the year’s worst IT failures: In February, an error in a supplier’s logistics management system forced KFC to close 470 stores for several days because it didn’t have any chicken to fry. 🐔

The Biggest IT Failures of 2018

Technical mishaps occurred in trains, planes, automobiles, and many more places

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Researchers from #Tsinghua University have developed this fully liquid metal RAM that is poised for future soft intelligent robots, brain-machine interfaces and even entire liquid-based computing systems.

Liquid RAM Flexes for Wearables, Robots, Implants

A non-volatile version could be on its way, too

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At the heart of every electric vehicle are motors with magnets made from rare elements which China has a near monopoly-stake control over. The race to build an electric motor without rare earth metals lies at the heart of the future of #EVs .

Who Will Free EV Motors from the Rare Earth Monopoly?

A materials breakthrough makes GE Aerospace a contender

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It's Nvidia H200's world. We're just inferencing in it.

Speed Tests for Llama 2, Stable Diffusion

MLPerf inferencing results show big results for big neural networks, mostly on Nvidia GPUs

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