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Build a Passive Radar With Software-Defined Radio

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A reference antenna picks up a signal from, say, a cell tower, while a surveillance antenna is tuned to the same frequency. The reference and surveillance signals are compared. Building off the demand stimulated by this activity, a number of manufacturers have started making premium, but still relatively cheap, SDRs.

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Inventing Postscript, the Tech That Took the Pain out of Printing

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The entrepreneurs in 1982 found Adobe a suitable name since the creek meandered near both their domes and, even more important, had none of the Qs, Xs, Ys, and Zs then popular with high-tech startups. Only when the simulator hardware was ready would they build a compiler to translate the database into the appropriate machine language.

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What Robotics Experts Think of Tesla’s Optimus Robot

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What excites me is the idea of cheap and accessible hardware! The sense I’m getting is that Optimus isn’t as bad as people thought, but also, nobody [in the robotics community] is very impressed or surprised by any of the tech. Second, there was very little vision for how Tesla would build the. BACK TO TOP ↑ ]. Animesh Garg.

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EV ute overload: The electric pickups coming soon

EV Central

The B2 (a cousin to the B1 wagon) hasn’t been completely killed off and in 2023 the company said “engineers are once again working on developing the SUV and pickup” The B2 wasn’t looking like being cheap despite the simplicity of its aluminium body. The Ford Bronco is also expected to feature this tech.

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Wildcat ramps up its focus on EV Supercell breakthroughs

Charged EVs

While nickel isn’t [as expensive as] cobalt, nickel isn’t as cheap as some others. Mark Gresser: I’ve heard people refer to nickel as “the next cobalt” because, as everyone else increases the nickel content in batteries, it stands to reason that the cost of nickel is going to increase somewhat.

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IEEE Spectrum’s Top Telecom Stories of 2023

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The upside is that a lot of work is being put into making these new satellite constellations more secure , even though it will likely take a lot of rethinking about how to design and build the thousands upon thousands of satellites that make up these growing networks. 5G Networks are Performing Worse. What’s Going On?

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Chrysler's first electric car to be two-seat sports car - Apr. 15, 2009

Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

The key component is a stackable battery pack that can be combined like building blocks to create larger or smaller battery packs of different shapes depending on need. More Miami on the cheap House prices in Miami soared, then crashed. "The whole idea is that this is technology you can adapt to any existing niche," he said.