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General Fusion announces funding to build new fusion machine targeting scientific breakeven by 2026

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Canada-based General Fusion announced a new Magnetized Target Fusion (MTF) machine that will fast-track the company’s technical progress. An animation showing how General Fusion’s Magnetized Target Fusion technology works. An animation showing how General Fusion’s Magnetized Target Fusion technology works.

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ORNL, HTS International to collaborate on manufacturing research; conformal cooling

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Conformal cooling refers to the use of a cooling passageway which conforms to the shape or profile of a mold core or cavity to perform rapid, uniform cooling in injection molding or blow moulding.). HTS’ innovative Metal Fusion Technology (iMFT) is a proprietary form of additive manufacturing used exclusively by HTS International.

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TTTech using VectorCAST platform for development of Audi zFAS to ISO 26262 ASIL-D compliance; domain controller for piloted driving

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VectorCAST tools support capture and reporting of structural code coverage for all Automotive Safety Integrity Levels (ASIL) required by ISO 26262—an international standard for the functional safety of electrical and/or electronic systems in production automobiles. —William McCaffrey, chief operating officer of Vector Software.

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Siemens, Duke Energy and Ford demonstrate lower cost home smart charging technology for plug-ins; due on market next year

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and utilizing a Ford Fusion Energi Plug-In Hybrid, Siemens provided the first UL-approved residential electric vehicle supply equipment (EVSE) to demonstrate the ability to monitor status, report energy use, and be controlled locally from the local area network and from the cloud. Held at the Duke Energy Envision Center in Erlanger, Ky.,

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BMW Group, Intel and Mobileye partner on open platform to bring fully autonomous driving to market by 2021

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The three are creating an a standards-based open platform—from door locks to the datacenter—for the next generation of cars. The companies have agreed to a set of deliverables and milestones to deliver fully autonomous cars based on a common reference architecture.

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New QNX software platform enables ADAS and automated driving

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The QNX Platform for ADAS includes pre-integrated reference implementations for building multi-camera vision systems and V2X applications (vehicle-to-vehicle and vehicle-to-infrastructure communications). ADAS platforms: NVIDIA DRIVE Automotive Platform for computer vision, deep learning, sensor fusion. Click to enlarge.

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Researchers using ORNL Jaguar supercomputer for simulations to develop improved gasifiers

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Multiphase refers to the process of changing a solid (in this case, coal) to a gas (syngas). The program allocates hours to large-scale, computationally-intensive research projects in a range of areas including fusion, climate, and materials. A standard run usually takes a month to complete. Click to enlarge.

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