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Where VR Gaming Took a Wrong Turn

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One early reader of Luckey’s posts was John Carmack , lead programmer for several of the most influential first-person shooter games, including Doom and Wolfenstein. Carmack, far beyond anyone else, pioneered the genre of hardcore games with his first-person shooter games.

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

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As we drive down a street in downtown Los Angeles, our system’s synthesized voice provides navigation instructions. Indeed, some carmakers have announced plans to introduce conversational agents that both assist drivers with operating their vehicles and help them to organize their daily lives. Scene-Aware Interaction Technology.

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Worldwide Campaign for Neurorights Notches Its First Win

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Indeed, 2022 may be the year that neurorights becomes a hot topic, bringing the young neurotech industry and the human rights community into uncomfortable conversations. The right to personal identity. Spain’s new. The 5 Neurorights. The right to mental privacy. The right to free will. The right to equal access to mental augmentation.

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Ham Radio Jamming, Wireless Industry Battlegrounds, and IoT in Space

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The company demonstrated that LoRa indeed lived up to its name, as they were able to send signals up to 2,900 kilometers, or roughly the distance between Los Angeles and Chicago. PORTL’s tech instead records a three-dimensional video of a person and transmits it to the person they’re conversing with.

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Xerox Parc’s Engineers on How They Invented the Future—and How Xerox Lost It

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Networks that link personal computers in offices. Some of these real-world offspring, like the Apple Lisa computer and the Hewlett-Packard LaserJet printer, took many of their root concepts from PARC; others, like the Ada computer language and the Intel 1103 dynamic RAM chip, are less closely related. Laser printers.

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DOE ARPA-E awards $156M to projects to 60 projects to accelerate innovation in clean energy technologies

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Energy Plant Design The University of California, Los Angeles, will re-engineer. will conduct a one-year “proof-of-concept seedling” program. Concentrating Solar Power/Nuclear: High Efficiency Solar Electric Conversion Power Tower Abengoa Solar will develop a high efficiency solar-electric. This will allow a. generation.

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The Do-or-Die Moments That Determined the Fate of the Internet

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The first node of the ARPANET was installed at the University of California, Los Angeles, in 1969. In 1981, GM held exploratory conversations with Digital Equipment Corp. His demo is rightly recognized as a turning point for expanding the realm of the possible in personal computing. Hewlett-Packard , and IBM.