Automotive
A Mountain View, California, company has a vision of driver assistive truck platooning as a potential change maker for the trucking industry—in a good way, namely, carrying with it safety and fuel efficiency.
Jul 18, 2019 weblog
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Energy & Green Tech
What's not to like about this concept: high-efficiency solar cells gifting electric cars with mileage.
Jul 06, 2019 weblog
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Energy & Green Tech
Multi-junction solar cells are both the most efficient type of solar cell on the market today and the most expensive type of solar cell to produce. In a proof-of-concept paper, researchers from North Carolina State University ...
Jun 24, 2019
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Energy & Green Tech
Halide perovskite solar cells hold promise as the next generation of solar cell technologies, but while researchers have developed techniques for improving their material characteristics, nobody understood why these techniques ...
Jun 06, 2019
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Energy & Green Tech
Solar cells made of perovskite hold much promise for the future of solar energy. The material is cheap, easy to produce and almost as efficient as silicon, the material traditionally used in solar cells. However, perovskite ...
May 14, 2019
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Engineering
The brain's capacity for simultaneously learning and memorizing large amounts of information while requiring little energy has inspired an entire field to pursue brain-like – or neuromorphic – computers. Researchers at ...
Apr 26, 2019
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Energy & Green Tech
The benefits of self-driving cars will likely induce vehicle owners to drive more, and those extra miles could partially or completely offset the potential energy-saving benefits that automation may provide, according to ...
Apr 17, 2019
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Engineering
Many internal components used in today's computers reach temperatures that are hot enough to cook a Thanksgiving meal. The heat produced by the computations can easily burn human skin and tissue – and much of the heat is ...
Mar 29, 2019
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Energy & Green Tech
While many advancements have been in improving its efficiency, the refrigerator still consumes considerable amounts of energy each year.
Mar 28, 2019
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Computer Sciences
MIT researchers have developed a novel cryptography circuit that can be used to protect low-power "internet of things" (IoT) devices in the coming age of quantum computing.
Mar 04, 2019
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Engineering
Rice University integrated circuit (IC) designers are at Silicon Valley's premier chip-design conference to unveil technology that is 10 times more reliable than current methods of producing unclonable digital fingerprints ...
Feb 20, 2019
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Energy & Green Tech
Two news items about Sunnyvale, California-based Alta Devices drew attention recently.
Dec 20, 2018 weblog
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Computer Sciences
A team led by the University of California San Diego has developed a neuroinspired hardware-software co-design approach that could make neural network training more energy-efficient and faster. Their work could one day make ...
Dec 19, 2018
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Engineering
A new study led by The Australian National University (ANU) could lead to cheaper and more efficient solar technology.
Dec 19, 2018
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Robotics
The rapid growth of logistics businesses has generated a need for more evolved and efficient warehouse systems. Advances in robotics could help to meet these needs by automating tasks that are currently completed by humans, ...
Dec 05, 2018 feature
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