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Foxconn Enters Smart Home Market with Belkin Acquisition
The $866 million deal brings brand recognition as well as potential product cross-over.
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Video: Google’s Waymo and Jaguar Land Rover Team for Electric Self-driving Vehicle
The I-PACE premium car will be added to Waymo’s autonomous ride-hailing fleet.
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Fleet of Self-Driving Taxis Could Improve Energy Consumption and Greenhouse Gas Emissions
A new model from Berkeley Lab and UC Berkeley shows the potential benefits to autonomous vehicle technology
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Bringing Back Print by Eliminating the Paper
A new, paper-thin liquid crystal display (LCD) could be used to display a daily newspaper – and be refreshed with news updates throughout the day.
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BMW and Daimler to Merge Mobility Services
The companies will combine and expand existing services such as car sharing, ride hailing, parking, charging and multimodality.
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Slim, EasyCon Connectors from Harting Serve Rail Industry’s Need for More Flexibility
The new Han® HPR 22 Slim connector accommodates up to four 250-amp contacts, yet its flat profile is ideal for height-restricted spaces like the underside of a rail car.
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New Electrolyte for Lithium Batteries Can Extend Electric Car’s Driving Range
Researchers from the Department of Energy’s Pacific Northwest National Laboratory discovered that the perfect balance in a battery is completely dependent on salt concentration.
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World’s First On-chip Flash Memory Microcontroller Features Advanced 28nm Embedded Flash Technology
The new-generation automotive control microcontroller extends the entire Renesas autonomy™ end-to-end solution portfolio.
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Closing the IoT's Back Doors
Understanding the sources of IoT vulnerability can inform the design of secure systems and best practices for ensuring effective security.
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This Isn’t Your Grandma’s Knitting Yarn: Electric Yarn Can Power Wearable Electronics
Researchers have developed a new kind of yarn battery that is waterproof, flexible and can be knit, cut, shaped and still work.
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Simulation System Tests Autonomous Vehicles in the Cloud
The new datacenter solution integrates NVIDIA DRIVE Pegasus and runs DRIVE Sim Software for extensive testing and validation of self-driving cars.
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Fog Harvesting with Vertical Wires Could Bring Clean Water to Water-Scarce Environments
Fog is the latest innovation in the hunt for clean and accessible water. Clean water can be gathered with giant nets hung on mountainsides.
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Video: Point-of-care Ultrasound Supports Remote Collaboration and Virtual Training
The integrated system provides face-to-face conversation with simultaneous viewing of live ultrasound images and guided probe positioning.
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New Battery Research Could Double the Range of Electric Vehicles
Researchers at Pacific Northwest National Laboratory’s (PNNL) Department of Energy have discovered by mixing the right amount of salt with a small lithium-metal battery it can re-charge about seven times more than batteries with conventional electrolytes.
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Video: Nissan to Recycle Old LEAF Batteries to Power Japanese Street Lights
The Reborn Light project aims to provide public lighting for residents in Namie.
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Meet Mugsy the Robotic Coffee Maker
According to its creator, Mugsy is "the world's first hackable, customizable, dead simple, robotic coffee maker."
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Would You Get Your Teeth Cleaned by a Robot?
New survey reveals humans would allow robotic dentistry to perform non-invasive procedures.
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New Wearable Medical Electronics that Adhere to the Skin Inspired by Kirigami Art
Researchers fabricated an adhesive bandage as well as a head pad consisting of a kirigami film threaded with heating wires.
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Ultrathin Endoscope Captures Neurons Firing Deep in the Brain
An endoscope as thin as a human hair can image the activity of neurons in the brains of living mice.
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Data Centers: Factories of the Information Age
Data has been in the news a lot lately. In the past two weeks alone, Facebook has lost over 100 billion dollars in market capitalization because of concerns regarding its handling of users' data. Facebook had a long way to fall since it has been outperforming the stock market for many years now. Along with Amazon, Apple, Netflix and Google, it is part of a market-leading group of companies dubbed FAANG. FAANG stocks are characterized by rapid revenue growth. All are information technology stocks and represent a new economy of sorts. An economy based on data.
