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Sandia team reports significant output from MagLIF fusion technique

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Researchers at Sandia National Laboratories’ Z pulsed-power accelerator have produced a significant output of fusion neutrons, using a method fully functioning for only little more than a year. The method could be useful as a future energy source if the individual fusion pulses can be sequenced like the firing of an automobile’s cylinders.

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2023’s Top Stories About Energy

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Energy storage and nuclear fusion—two reliable crowd pleasers when the crowd you’re talking about is readers of IEEE Spectrum —are well represented among our most widely read energy stories of 2023. Here are the 10 most popular AI articles that Spectrum published in 2023, ranked by the amount of time people spent reading them.

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Demand for personalisation, connectivity driving SDV shift | Autocar Professional

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OEMs will define the respective features to be offered on different models, and connect them with a common software platform. Partnerships and alliances will be crucial to navigate the complex landscape of software development, connectivity as well as data management.

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Video Friday: $2.6 Billion

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This article proposes a novel freeform and truss-structured modular self-reconfigurable robot called FreeSN, containing node and strut modules. This release helps maintenance teams tap into the power of AI with new software capabilities and Spot enhancements.

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Opinion: How India can move from Level 2 to Level 3 autonomy of cars and beyond – ET Auto

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Additionally, advancements in connectivity have transformed cars into mobile hubs, enabling seamless integration with smartphones, navigation systems, and other smart devices. Moving from Level 2 to 3 To move from Level 2 to Level 3 cars, India needs to embrace advanced technologies such as sensor fusion, AI, ML, and improved connectivity.

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Hacking Ham Radio for Texting

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APRS supports sending text messages, and if you're in range of an Internet-connected gateway node you can even. Sending texts traditionally meant using a PC hooked up to a so-called terminal node controller ( TNC) packet radio modem , which is in turn connected to a radio (signals are transmitted as audio tones, just like old dial-up modems).

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Fine-Tuning the Factory: Simulation App Helps Optimize Additive Manufacturing Facility

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This sponsored article is brought to you by COMSOL. One promising way to meet modern industrial challenges is by using additive manufacturing (AM) processes, such as powder bed fusion and other emerging techniques. By contrast, the metal powder bed fusion process (Ref.