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DOE to invest up to $7M to support early-stage solar technologies

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is developing a novel flexible solar cell manufacturing process and design, which will dramatically reduce production costs by minimizing the amount of semiconductor material used while also having vast potential to surpass standard device efficiency. Solexant, San Jose, Calif., Solexant, San Jose, Calif.,

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Velodyne introduces new low-cost fixed-laser solid-state LiDAR for autonomous driving and ADAS applications

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It will be produced in scale at the company’s new Megafactory in San Jose. The company has scheduled customer demonstration of the core technology for the summer of 2017, with engineering sample units available by the end of 2017 ahead of production in 2018.

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Coulomb, MasterCard, and the future of public charging

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The big takeaway: If you want a free charge station and are located in a program area (Austin, Los Angeles, New York, Orlando, Sacramento, San Jose/San Francisco Bay Area, Bellevue/Redmond, Washington DC, Southern Michigan), raise your hand now. ChargePoint America is looking for hosts for charge stations.

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Conference confirms plug-in fever

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Plug-in 2008 in San Jose, California witnessed a noon-time address by new heavy-weight convert, Andy Grove, former CEO of Intel. Once again, a conference on plug-in cars. Coming on the heels of the Google/Brookings event in Washington, D.C., Grove brings some needed high-profile gravitas to the community of electrification advocates.

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One Way to Stop the Social Spread of Disinformation

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Alamouti says tokens, enabled by distributed ledgers, could replace cash as a method of exchange, with low-cost transaction fees. After AT&T, he helped companies develop chips for 3G and Wi-Fi at Cadence Design Systems , in San Jose, Calif. Only people who hold the correct cryptographic keys can read the records.

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How Ted Hoff Invented the First Microprocessor

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Busicom had hired Intel to develop a set of custom chips for a low-cost calculator and had sent three engineers to Santa Clara to work on the chip designs. San Jose, Calif., From 12 Chips to One Microprocessor One group of customers with whom Hoff made contact were from Busicom Corp.,

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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. San Jose, Calif. Sunrun, San Francisco, Calif. San Jose, Calif.