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The Tiny Star Explosions Powering Moore’s Law

Cars That Think

At the time, about a decade ago, I was helping to refine a system for fabricating chips using extreme ultraviolet (EUV) light. To produce EUV light, we would focus an intense laser pulse onto 30-micrometer-wide droplets of tin flying through a chamber filled with low-density hydrogen.

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A Crucial Optical Technology Has Finally Arrived

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At Nvidias GTC event last week in San Jose, the company announced that it will produce an optical network switch designed to drastically cut the power consumption of AI data centers. In the former, light traveling through a waveguide is split into two parallel arms. And so electronic bits can be encoded onto the light.

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Flash Drive: 2025 Cadillac Escalade IQ

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Clean Fleet Report recently had the opportunity get behind the wheel for a couple hours during media event in San Francisco. Open sesame The exterior features walk-up and walk-away, front and rear, choreographed lighting sequences and a panoramic fixed glass roof that is tinted and treated with UV-filtering. kW standard; 19.2

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2025 Volkswagen ID.Buzz: electric Microbus finally arrives

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The launch event started with a drive of more than a dozen Buzzes down the famous Lombard Street switchbacks for a group photo. The standard model has a 210-kilowatt (282-horsepower) motor powering the rear wheels, rated at 413 lb-ft of torque. (Look up “chicken tax” for the reason why.) save Los Angeles. Photos by John Voelcker.

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Road Test: 2025 Ford F-150 Lightning SuperCrew Pro 4X4

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F-150 Lightning Pro Specifications Standard Range Battery Where work meets play 4×4 with a single speed transmission Dual electric motors 98 kWh, liquid-cooled lithium-ion battery 452 horsepower (hp) 775 pound-feet of torque (lb. -ft. For the Lighting Pro, that means getting traditional gasoline and diesel truck owners to give it a try.

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Big News as Toyota & Lexus Models Make Their Debuts

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The third week of May 2025 might be considered the best one of these events weve attended. Toyota annually invites a couple hundred automotive journalists to their Plano, Texas, headquarters for the HQC (for Head Quarters Confidential) event. So, for the second generation, it is now officially BZ. In one word: plenty.

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Flash Drive: 2026 Toyota BZ EV

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Toyota brought automotive journalists to its Plano, Texas, headquarters for the HQC (for Head Quarters Confidential) event to lay-out its product plans for the coming year. The 18-inch all-season tires are standard on the XLE, with 20-inch on the Limited. The standard multimedia system on both XLE and Limited has a 14.0-inch