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NASA’s New Shortcut to Fusion Power

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And scientists and engineers have continued to study the sun’s fusion process in hopes of one day using nuclear fusion to generate heat or electricity. Consequently, governments, universities, and companies have long looked to fusion to remedy these ills. But the prospect of meeting our energy needs this way remains elusive.

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This Fusion Reactor Is Held Together With Tape

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Brandon Sorbom , the scientific director of Commonwealth Fusion Systems (CFS) , leads me toward the center of the building’s cross-shaped footprint, weaving among scaffolding, forklifts, and teams of welders and painters. On the site of a former U.S. Army Reserve base near Boston, an unusual structure is rising from the rolling hills.

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Ford doubles electric drive market share in US from 2012 to 2013; surging with plug-in hybrids

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2012 was something of a transition year for Ford with its electric drive vehicles; the venerable Escape Hybrid was phasing out, while only the new Fusion Hybrid and the MKZ Hybrid had a full year of sales. But for the first nine months of 2013, Ford’s sales of conventional hybrids (Fusion, C-MAX and MKZ) zoomed to 58,262 units, or 14.9%

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CMU demo’ing Autonomous SRX in Washington this week

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The tracking system comprises two basic layers: the sensor and the fusion layer. In the demonstration in DC, cameras in the vehicle will visually detect the status of traffic lights and respond appropriately. Due to the integration of multiple wide-FOV sensors the blind spots are small enough that no vehicle will be overlooked.

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NVIDIA introduces DRIVE PX 2 platform for autonomous driving

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This enables partners to address the full breadth of autonomous driving algorithms, including sensor fusion, localization and path planning. While others invested years of development to achieve similar levels of perception with classical computer vision algorithms, we have been able to do it at the speed of light. Click to enlarge.

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Emmy Award Winner’s Algorithms Bring High-Quality Video to Your TV

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Neuroscientist or cinematographer Programs he helped develop include the Structural SIMilarity (SSIM) index, the MOtion-tuned Video Integrity Evaluation ( MOVIE ) index, visual information fidelity algorithms, and the Video Multimethod Assessment Fusion ( VMAF ) metric. Bovik has received several awards for his work.

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HARMAN introduces range of connected vehicle technologies and Microsoft partnership at CES

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HARMAN International Industries made a number of connected vehicle technology announcements during CES 2016 last week, including a connected car computing platform, demonstrated in the Rinspeed Σtos concept car; an advanced navigation system with live data fusion; an open cloud-based software delivery system; and a new partnership with Microsoft.

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