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Building a Zero Trust Security Model for Autonomous Systems

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This sponsored article is brought to you by Technology Innovation Institute. This makes it practical to keep tabs on buildings as they are being built, track progress, and identify mistakes when they are cheaper to fix. Building secure systems will need to address hardware, software, and protocols and their interplay.

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Update: 10 Best Car Sharing Programs

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We’ve Entered the Age of Shared Mobility This article may contain affiliate links Car sharing has changed dramatically since C lean Fleet Report first reported on it almost two decades ago. Such services can increase utilization since members can use one-way car sharing for shorter, spur of the moment trips. In the U.S.

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3 Challenges to Solve Before We Can Commute by Air Taxi

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As part of a program to develop the needed flight rules and communications systems, we are leading a consortium of a dozen companies and universities, called the North Texas Cohort , that is operating an experimental air corridor north of Dallas, Texas. These sensors will detect other aircraft, birds, buildings, and thick clouds.

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AMD’s Lisa Su Breaks Through the Silicon Ceiling

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She decided to study electrical engineering, she says, because she was drawn to the prospect of building hardware. "I I felt like I was actually building and making things," she says. The then-unproven technique increased transistors' efficiency by building them atop layers of an insulating material.

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?How a Design Battle Between Chip Engineers Led to Polaroid’s Revolutionary SX-70 Camera

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This article was first published as "The battle for the SX-70." of Dallas, Texas. He is now a design manager at Dallas Semiconductor Corp. in Dallas, Texas.) Designing in Dallas A preliminary round had disappointed both IC teams. to build equipment for attaching the dice to the reel of laminated film.

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Designing the First Apple Macintosh: The Engineers’ Story

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This article was first published as “Design case history: Apple’s Macintosh.” The author spoke with many members of the design team in the months following the 1984 introduction of the Macintosh, however, Steve Jobs did not grant an interview for this article. It appeared in the December 1984 issue of IEEE Spectrum. It’ll never work.’

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Electric Cars and a Smarter Grid - Green Inc. Blog - NYTimes.com

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Sven Thesen, the communication and technology director for Better Place , a start-up that is gaining traction (see this recent New York Times article ) in its effort to create a network for electric cars in various countries, likened the concept of electric cars to cellphones. Fifteen years ago, how many people had a cellphone?”

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