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Aeva announces Aeries 4D FMCW lidar-on-chip for autonomous driving; recent Porsche investment

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Essentially, unlike conventional time-of-flight (ToF) lidar systems that send out a pulse of laser light and measure the time it takes to bounce back, FMCW sends out a continuous beam with a steadily changing frequency. When the light returns, the frequency difference is proportional to the distance traveled.

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ARPA-E awards $130M to 66 “OPEN 2012” transformational energy technology projects

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sunlight through low-cost, plastic light-guiding sheets and then. If successful, the new crop would have a lower cost of. Turbo-POx For Ultra Low-Cost Gasoline. lower cost than those available today, based on a friction. Ceramatec’s design would allow for low-cost materials and.

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How USB Came to Be

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And there he was given the green light. FROM DREAM TO REALITY Before the group began developing USB, it explored what was already available. A single computer was unlikely to have 127 USB ports, but the number of ports available could be increased by adding USB hubs. This has exceeded the wildest of my imaginations.”

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Building a Zero Trust Security Model for Autonomous Systems

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Just last year, a half dozen precisely targeted malicious drones managed to slow oil production in Saudi Arabia for days, and more recently, several low-cost drones caused significant damage to oil tankers in the UAE. This illustrates the importance of detecting hostile drones entering secure spaces.

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Creating the Commodore 64: The Engineers’ Story

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In January 1982, a home computer incorporating those chips was introduced at the Winter Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas, Nev. A PDF version is available on IEEE Xplore. When the design of the Commodore 64 began, the overriding goals were simplicity and low cost. a subsidiary of Commodore International Ltd.

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