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MIT researchers use neural networks to speed materials design; 5 weeks vs 50 years for flow battery proof-of-concept

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When searching through theoretical lists of possible new materials for particular applications, such as batteries or other energy-related devices, there are often millions of potential materials that could be considered, and multiple criteria that need to be met and optimized at once. These can exist in a vast number of different forms.

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Testing Products for Consumer Reports

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At SMSC she was responsible for integrated circuit design, validation, and product engineering of silicon chips used in PCs. For example, we’ve seen video doorbells and wireless home security cameras sending email addresses, IP addresses, lists of commands, network names, and even Wi-Fi passwords as unencrypted data.

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Nissan says it will have first commercially-viable autonomous drive vehicles by 2020; across the range in 2 vehicle generations

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Nissan said that its engineers have been carrying out intensive research on the technology for years, alongside teams from universities including MIT, Stanford, Oxford, Carnegie Mellon and the University of Tokyo. Autonomous drive will have implications throughout the design and construction of cars. Nissan Motor Co.,

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Lightyear shelves solar EV plans, hires executives to spearhead solar systems for other OEMs

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Star-crossed startup Lightyear has finally thrown in the towel on attempting to bring its long-promised solar EVs to market – at least one donning its own badge and design language. in Physics from MIT and nearly two decades of work experience in the solar and vehicle-integrated photovoltaic sector.

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Virtual Reality Helps Students Improve Their Math Literacy

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Displayed on the student’s VR headset is a list of modules. The system is essentially being designed alongside the schools that are using it.” The teachers “say they can tell the platform was designed by an educator,” she adds. I’ve never had a teacher opt out of using the platform.”

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Ford OpenXC platform out of beta; open-source hardware and software platform

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The read-only system is designed to keep everything isolated from the vehicle control systems. Early in 2012 Ford shipped the first OpenXC beta toolkits to universities such as the University of Michigan, MIT, Stanford University and HCL Technologies in India.

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What Robotics Experts Think of Tesla’s Optimus Robot

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Click the link under each section to jump back up to the list of experts. Research Specialist, MIT Media Lab. All of them are backed by expert roboticists with years of design experience. This is a sensible design choice to get up and running, but would definitely need redoing for longer-term operation. BACK TO TOP ↑ ].

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