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Startup’s Analog AI Promises Power for PCs

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Naveen Verma s lab at Princeton University is like a museum of all the ways engineers have tried to make AI ultra-efficient by using analog phenomena instead of digital computing. While the initial invention , which dates back to 2017, was a big moment for Vermas lab, he says the basic concept is quite old.

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These Graphene Tattoos Are Actually Biosensors

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Right now, such tattoos dont exist, but the key technology is being worked on in labs around the world, including my lab at the University of Massachusetts Amherst. The Rise of Epidermal Electronics The idea of a peel-and-stick sensor comes from the groundbreaking work of John Rogers and his team at Northwestern University.

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The Starting Line for Self-Driving Cars

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In the 2005 Grand Challenge, Carnegie Mellon Universitys H1ghlander was one of five autonomous cars to finish the race. To learn more about how CMU finally figured this out, see Spectrum Senior Editor Evan Ackermans 2017 story.) Team members speculated that an accident a few weeks before the competition had damaged the filter. (To

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Taxing the Distance

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and illuminating look at how a simple policy shift could rattle everything from personal budgets to the red-blue map. Saint Professor at the University of California Berkeley. The study doesn’t try to declare a tax policy utopia; it skips the moralizing and dives into the mechanics of who wins and who loses if we make this swap.

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Number of vehicles per person is still down from its maximum in 2006

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In the previous analysis , I examined the data from 1984 through 2017. The focus in this series is on vehicles per person, as opposed to total number of vehicles (which depends, in part, on the continuously increasing size of the U.S. The main findings (summarized in the table below) are as follows: Vehicles per person increased by 18.2%

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Younger persons are still less likely to have a driver’s license than in the 1980s

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Since 2011 , I have periodically examined changes in the proportion of persons with a driver’s license as a function of age. The previous study compared data for 1983 (as the baseline) with those for 2008, 2011, 2014, and 2017. That was followed by modest increases in the licensure for all age groups between 2014 and 2017.

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The majority of vehicle buyers are older than 54

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In this analysis, I compare the age composition of buyers of new light-duty vehicles (cars and light trucks) in 2007 and 2017. The main findings are as follows: Middle-aged persons purchased proportionally fewer vehicles in 2017 than in 2007 (down from 29% to 14% for those 35 to 44, and from 24% to 20% for those 45 to 54).