Category: Markets & Products

DARPA seeks “non-traditional” robotics innovators

The government has a robotics problem. Government grants for cutting edge robotics research and development typically favor large military contractors. But a lot of the development in robotics these days comes from individuals, startups, and university labs capitalizing on developments in 3D printing and falling sensor prices. Because hardware has

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Paralyzed Man’s Arm Wired to Receive Brain Signals

Scientists at Case Western Reserve University in Ohio say they’ve used electronics to get around a paralyzed man’s spinal injury, permitting him to use an implant in his brain to move his arm and hand. The test represents the first time that signals collected in the brain have been conveyed

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YouTube Bolts into Next Phase of Virtual Reality with 3D video

In a cable car high above Japan, the country’s distinctive architecture unfurls beneath me. I see clay kawara tiles covering rooftops, shimmering as the cable car gently swings. Suddenly everything stops, then goes dim. YouTube is buffering. The implications are real. By making its entire video library workable with Cardboard,

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New artificial intelligence writes choose-your-own-adventure games

An artificial intelligence is incapable of original thought — at least for now. What it can do, however, is collate information in new ways, resulting in a creation that seems original. This is how Scheherazade, an artificial intelligence developed by researchers at the Georgia Institute of Technology, works. Named after

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IBM Research Alliance Produces Industry’s First 7nm Node Test Chips

An alliance led by IBM Research announced that it has produced the semiconductor industry’s first 7nm (nanometer) node test chips with functioning transistors.  The breakthrough, accomplished in partnership with GLOBALFOUNDRIES and Samsung at SUNY Polytechnic Institute’s Colleges of Nanoscale Science and Engineering (SUNY Poly CNSE), could result in the ability

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Celebrating the 50th Anniversary of Moore’s Law

On April 19, 1965, Electronics magazine published an article that would change the world. It was authored by Fairchild Semiconductor’s R&D director, who made the observation that transistors—the fundamental building blocks of the semiconductor—would decrease in cost and increase in performance at an exponential rate. The article predicted the personal

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