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Building Better Qubits

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While growing up in Germany, Heike Riel helped her father design and build furniture in the family workshop. She says the experience taught her that “precision and creativity are necessary to build something excellent.” When I go back to my hometown, many of our clients still have the furniture that I helped build for them.”

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DIYers Have Been Quietly Building The Green Campers Of Tomorrow

CleanTechnica EVs

In a recent article, I lamented the competing pressures of efficiency and luxury in campers. I wanted something small, light, and efficient that my Bolt EUV could tow, because nothing spoils a fun trip like going into debt (both financial and to my kids for ruining the planet) to cover the fuel bill. But, living […].

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EV Demand Is Not Growing As Fast As Hoped, But This Can Be Fixed

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In a number of recent articles, I’ve seen signs of trouble on the horizon for the EV transition. Ford is also cutting a shift at a plant building F-150 Lightings due to “changing” EV demand and inventory of the trucks piling up at […]

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Timnit Gebru Is Building a Slow AI Movement

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If we want to build technology that has meaningful community input, then we need to really think about what’s best. There was an article that was recently published in Slate that showed these school surveillance systems will flag LGBT keywords , which could unintentionally be outing students. Sefala] is going to write an article for.

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Build a Passive Radar With Software-Defined Radio

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Building off the demand stimulated by this activity, a number of manufacturers have started making premium, but still relatively cheap, SDRs. I ordered two small and light $19 TV antennas. This article appears in the November 2022 print issue as “Passive Radar With the KrakenSDR.”. An explosion of interest in SDRs followed.

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Building the Future of Smart Home Security

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This is a sponsored article brought to you by SimpliSafe. From video doorbells to robot vacuums, automated lighting, and voice assistants, smart home technology has invaded consumers’ homes and shows no sign of disappearing anytime soon. At SimpliSafe , an award-winning home security company based in Boston, Mass.,

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Linking Chips With Light For Faster AI

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And recently, you wrote an article about the race to replace electricity with light inside computers, which is letting chips talk to each other with fiber optics rather than just using fiber optics to communicate between computers. Light, on the other hand, doesn’t work like that. So what’s going on? Cass: Okay, great.

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