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How Smart Semiconductor Technology Will Improve Personal Health

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This sponsored article is brought to you by Infineon Technologies. We support a health-conscious lifestyle by enabling smart devices that can help improve well-being and stay healthy longer by making them reliable, convenient, personalized — and secure. We live in a world of rising population. billion in 2030 and 9.7 billion in 2050.

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Autonomous electric car technology: Why should a self-driving vehicle be all-electric?

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A self-driving car is capable of driving itself sensing the environment with no help of a driver. Ability to analyze the environment and react according to the conditions is not an easy process. A self-driving car is supposed to analyze the environment and react based on the circumstances. Proximity sensors, cameras, etc.

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Wireless Worries Overshadow Triumphs of RF Research

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Kenneth Foster: In the context of RF safety, exposure refers to the fields outside the body, while dose refers to energy absorbed within body tissues. For example, a number of scientists are surveying levels of RF fields in the environment, to address the public's health concerns. The list goes on.

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Will Human Soldiers Ever Trust Their Robot Comrades?

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Editor’s note: This article is adapted from the author’s book War Virtually: The Quest to Automate Conflict, Militarize Data, and Predict the Future (University of California Press, published in paperback April 2024). Ten years from now if the first person through a breach isn’t a friggin’ robot, shame on us.”

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EIA Annual Energy Outlook explores implications of behavior and demographics on light-duty vehicle energy demand

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Included in AEO2014 is a set of eight “Issues in Focus” articles, exploring topics of special significance, including changes in assumptions and recent developments in technologies for energy production and consumption. The Reference case in AEO2014 assumes that VMT per licensed driver begins to increase after 2018. —below the 1.7%

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That Awesome Robot Demo Could Have a Human in the Loop

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Not only do people end up with the wrong idea of how your robot functions and what it’s really capable of, it also means that whenever those people see other robots doing similar tasks autonomously, their frame of reference will be completely wrong, minimizing what otherwise may be a significant contribution to the field by other robotics folks.

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AI Tool for COVID Monitoring Offers Solution for Urban Congestion

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This is a sponsored article brought to you by NYU’s Tandon School of Engineering. Instead of trying to very accurately count pedestrians crossing a line, we are trying to understand pedestrian density in urban environments, especially for those places that are typically crowded, like bus stops and crosswalks,” said Gao. “We