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Self-Destructing Circuits and More Security Schemes

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Last week at the International Solid-State Circuits Conference (ISSCC), researchers introduced several technologies to fight even the sneakiest hack attacks. A University of Vermont team led by Eric Hunt-Schroeder and involving Marvell Technology took their PUF a step farther.

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Exploding Chips, Meta's AR Hardware, and More

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Cass: Sam, you recently attended the Big Kahuna Conference of the semiconductor research world, ISSCC. Moore: Well, besides being a difficult-to-say acronym, it actually stands for the IEEE International Solid State Circuits Conference. So there is another conference for inventing new kinds of transistors and other sorts of devices.

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Paige's AI Diagnostic Tech is Revolutionizing Cancer Diagnosis

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But his desire to understand how the human brain works led him to switch from physics to electrical engineering and ultimately to pursue signal processing at the University of Vermont. The 2003 conference is where I met leaders in the field," he says. All of this eventually led me to AI," Grady says. "AI

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Basics of the Lac-Mégantic derailment and fire

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Early speculation on the Internet suggested a BLEVE (Boiling-Liquid Expanding-Vapor Explosion) as potentially responsible for the degree of destruction reported in Lac-Mégantic, and during an onsite press conference broadcast by the CBC, one of the firefighters referenced the danger of BLEVE with two remaining tankers (at 2:37 in the video).

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Governors of 8 states sign MoU to put 3.3M zero-emission vehicles on roads by 2025; 15% of new vehicle sales

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The governors of 8 states—California, Connecticut, Maryland, Massachusetts, New York, Oregon, Rhode Island and Vermont—have signed a memorandum of understanding ( MoU ) to take specific actions to put 3.3 This multi-state effort is intended to expand consumer awareness and demand for zero-emission vehicles.

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EPA Grants California Vehicle GHG Regulations Waiver

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On a conference call on Tuesday, EPA officials said they expected to release the Notice of Proposed Rulemaking (NPRM) for the vehicle greenhouse gas regulations later this year. Using the projected California fleet mix, ARB calculates the average emissions form the MY2016 new vehicle fleet will be approximately 243 g/mi (or about 36.6

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False Starts: The Story of Vehicle-to-Grid Power

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AC Propulsion’s president, Tom Gage, explains the company’s vehicle-to-grid technology at a 2001 conference in Seattle. Around the same time, however, General Motors and other automakers were in the process of decommissioning their battery EV fleets, the key component of V2G.

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