Editor Blogs

September 2024
Sharp's Concept EV to be

Sharp's Concept EV to be "Extended Living Room"

­Sharp has simultaneously become the latest consumer electronics giant to delve into the automotive world and pushed us ever closer to our mythical, sci-fi future of transportation. The Japanese goliath describes its LDK+ concept car as an “extended living room” – which is curious, because there’s no in
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09/30/2024
YouTube to Make Extensive use of AI for Analytics, Video Creation

YouTube to Make Extensive use of AI for Analytics, Video Creation

­Anyone who’s slunk around as a YouTube creator (like yours truly) knows how hard it is to navigate the algorithm and get noticed amidst the sea of options. Great videos get lost in the shuffle all the time, often because they’re not featured in the right places or aren’t highlighted in search results. YouT
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09/23/2024
Navy Partners with SpaceX for Broadband Internet Access

Navy Partners with SpaceX for Broadband Internet Access

­Communication for Navy vessels has always been critical, from flag signals to the famous “talk-between-ships” (TBS) system and modern radio. But until relatively recently, individual sailors were restricted to snail mail and the occasional land line call. And for the internet, they’ve had to rely on a ne
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09/16/2024
Battery Powered by Tears for Smart Contact Lenses
Nanyang Technological University

Associate Professor Lee Seok Woo from the NTU School of Electrical and Electronic Engineering (EEE) shows off the new battery

  Scientists at Singapore’s Nanyang Technological University have developed a flexible battery that is as thin as a human cornea.   I’ve written a lot about batteries in this column over the last few years. These batteries come in all shapes, sizes and chemistries. Mainly they are con
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09/16/2024
Federal Government Release $521 Million in Funds for EV Chargers

Federal Government Release $521 Million in Funds for EV Chargers

­The Biden Administration just announced its next round of funding – over half a billion in grants to 29 states – towards its goal of having 500,000 publicly available EV chargers by 2030. When the Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act (aka, the Bipartisan Infrastructure Law) passed back in November 2021,
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09/09/2024
California Passes Act to Curb AI's Destructive Potential

California Governor Gavin Newsom, shown here, could decide the fate of the Safe and Secure Innovation for Frontier Artificial Intelligence Models Act very soon.

­California is taking major steps to make AI just a bit easier to control and possibly defang. According to Reuters, the California State Assembly recently passed the Safe and Secure Innovation for Frontier Artificial Intelligence Models Act (SB 1047), the first of its kind in the U.S. We’ve all see
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09/02/2024