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BMW Group, Intel and Mobileye Team Up to Bring Fully Autonomous Driving to Streets by 2021

“BMW Group, Intel and Mobileye are joining forces to make self-driving vehicles and future mobility concepts become a reality. The three leaders from the automotive, technology and computer vision and machine learning industries are collaborating to bring solutions for highly …

Curiosity Rover Enters Precautionary Safe Mode

“The team operating NASA’s Curiosity Mars rover is taking steps to return the rover to full activity following a precautionary stand-down over the Fourth of July weekend. Curiosity is now communicating with ground controllers and is stable. The rover …

HPE shows off a computer intended to emulate the human brain

“Intelligent computers that can make decisions like humans may someday​ be on Hewlett Packard Enterprise’s product roadmap. The company has been showing off a prototype computer designed to emulate the way the brain makes calculations. It’s based on …

London inventor of new omni-directional wheels says his prototype is better than existing products

“Big wheels keep on turning – forwards, backwards, sideways and diagonally. That’s the idea behind Londoner William Liddiard’s new invention, an evolution of the omni-directional wheel. It allows for a vehicle to turn 360 degrees without any friction, as …

NASA’s Juno Spacecraft in Orbit Around Mighty Jupiter

“After an almost five-year journey to the solar system’s largest planet, NASA’s Juno spacecraft successfully entered Jupiter’s orbit during a 35-minute engine burn. Confirmation that the burn had completed was received on Earth at 8:53 p …

New microfluidic device offers means for studying electric field cancer therapy

“Researchers at MIT’s research center in Singapore have developed a new microfluidic device that tests the effects of electric fields on cancer cells. They observed that a range of low-intensity, middle-frequency electric fields effectively stopped breast and lung cancer …

Quantum processor for single photons

“In all modern computers, data processing is based on information being binary-coded and then processed using logical operations. This is done using so-called logic gates which assign predefined output values to each input via deterministic protocols. Likewise, for the information …

The Largest Maker Survey Is Here. And It’s Yours.

“Hardware, Tools, Income, Passions, Clouds, Startups, Location… We had many questions for those who identify themselves as hardware makers and IoT developers, and we wanted to do this right. So we reached out to 25 of the world’s top …

The Netherlands has first nationwide LoRa network for Internet of Things

“As from today the KPN LoRa network is available throughout the Netherlands. This makes the Netherlands the first country in the world to have a nationwide LoRa network for Internet of Things (IoT) applications. Over the past eight months a …

Xinhua Insight: Installation complete on world’s largest radio telescope

” Installation was completed on the world’s largest radio telescope on Sunday morning as the last of 4,450 panels was fitted into the center of the big dish. Hoisting of the last triangular panel to the reflector, which is …