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DOE announces $29M in funding for fusion energy technology development

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ORNL and its partners will develop an integrated simulation environment, the Fusion Energy Reactor Models Integrator (FERMI), to assess and accelerate the design cycle of integrated fusion-energy systems. University of California, Los Angeles. The selected projects: Oak Ridge National Laboratory. Colorado School of Mines.

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Where VR Gaming Took a Wrong Turn

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Schaben/Los Angeles Times/Getty Images While working on the remaster of Doom 3 —which included support for 3D displays—Carmack was experimenting with different VR headsets that were available at the time. This graphical realism became closely entwined with the concept of immersion.

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DOE awarding >$24M to 77 projects through Technology Commercialization Fund

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Low Cost Roll-to-Roll Manufacturing of Reusable Sorbents for Energy and Water Industries, $150,000 Qualification of SAS4A/SASSYS-1 for Sodium-Cooled Fast Reactor Authorization and Licensing, $674,484 Advanced Reactor Concepts LLC, Chevy Chase, Md. Advanced Flow Meter for Extreme Environments (AFMEE), $100,000 MicroNuclear LLC, Franklin, Tenn.

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20 Teams to Compete for $10M Telerobot XPrize

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Avatar robots are systems designed to provide the hardware and software necessary for a remote human to experience the robot's environment as directly as possible, and allow the human to interact with that environment. However, the concept could be extended to include wearable sensors and even brain-machine interfaces.

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DOE to award $35M to 24 projects to support early-stage, innovative technologies and solutions in advanced manufacturing

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The selected projects vary in levels of maturity and industry-readiness—from concept definition (focused on specific experimental proof or detailed analysis) to proof-of-concept (requiring physical experimental validation). University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA). Bio2Electric, LLC d.b.a. Zyvex Labs, LLC.

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At Last, a Self-Driving Car That Can Explain Itself

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After all, Apple’s Siri , Microsoft’s Cortana , Amazon’s Alexa and Google Home are all very impressive , but these systems function solely on voice input: They can’t understand or react to the environment around them. As we drive down a street in downtown Los Angeles, our system’s synthesized voice provides navigation instructions.

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DOE awards $34M to 19 projects to advance clean hydrogen

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DOE Funding: $1,249,997; Non-DOE Funding: $312,516; Total Value: $1,562,513 Oxygen Integrated Unit for Modular Biomass Conversion to Hydrogen — Palo Alto Research Center Inc., approximately 1400 °C).

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