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Make Way For Holograms: New Mixed Reality Technology Meets Car Design As Ford Tests Microsoft Hololens Globally

“Ford is expanding testing of Microsoft HoloLens mixed reality technology globally to gain speed in designing more stylish vehicles for its customers New technology allows designers wearing wireless headsets to see several digital designs and parts as if these were …

NASA’S OSIRIS-REx Spacecraft Slingshots Past Earth

“NASA’s asteroid sample return spacecraft successfully used Earth’s gravity on Friday to slingshot itself on a path toward the asteroid Bennu, for a rendezvous next August. At 12:52 p.m. EDT on Sept. 22, the OSIRIS-REx …

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Quantum data takes a ride on sound waves

“Yale scientists have created a simple-to-produce device that uses sound waves to store quantum information and convert it from one form to another, all inside a single, integrated chip. The device allows a superconducting artificial atom — a qubit — to exchange …

Automatic code reuse

“Researchers at MIT’s Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory (CSAIL) have developed a new system that allows programmers to transplant code from one program into another. The programmer can select the code from one program and an insertion point …

Baidu Announces Apollo 1.5 and a 10 Billion yuan Autonomous Driving Fund

“Baidu, Inc. (NASDAQ:BIDU), announced on Wednesday the release of Apollo 1.5, the latest iteration of the company’s Apollo open-source autonomous driving platform that has gathered 70 strong partners so far. The company also announced a 10 billion …

Enable CAN Flexible Data Rate (CAN FD) in New and Existing Designs using Microchip’s Unique External CAN FD Controller

“The industry’s first external CAN Flexible Data Rate (CAN FD) controller is now available from Microchip Technology Inc. (NASDAQ: MCHP). The MCP2517FD allows designers a simplified path to upgrade from CAN 2.0 to CAN FD and benefit from …

Fujitsu Develops World’s First Wearable, Hands-Free Speech Translation Device

“No need to physically manipulate the device to communicate while care giving in hospital wards and a variety of other situations Fujitsu Laboratories Ltd. today announced the development of the world’s first wearable, hands-free speech translation device, suitable for …

One Step Closer to Lifelike Robots

“Researchers at Columbia Engineering have solved a long-standing issue in the creation of untethered soft robots whose actions and movements can help mimic natural biological systems. A group in the Creative Machines lab led by Hod Lipson, professor of mechanical …

Oracle Announces Java SE 9 and Java EE 8

“Oracle today announced the general availability of Java SE 9 (JDK 9), Java Platform Enterprise Edition 8 (Java EE 8) and the Java EE 8 Software Development Kit (SDK). JDK 9 is a production-ready implementation of the Java SE 9 …