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MIT Invented a Tool That Allows Driverless Cars to Navigate Rural Roads Without a Map

Real-Time AI: Microsoft Announces Preview of Project Brainwave

That’s where Microsoft’s Project Brainwave could come in. Project Brainwave is a hardware architecture designed to accelerate real-time AI calculations. The Project Brainwave architecture is deployed on a type of computer chip from Intel called a field programmable gate array, or FPGA, to make real-time AI calculations at competitive cost and with the industry’s lowest latency, or lag time.

For the first time, two CubeSats have gone interplanetary

The first CubeSats launched in 2003, and in less than a decade, more than 100 had reached orbit around Earth. The aerospace industry has debated whether the 2kg to 15kg microsatellites are a fad, a toy, or a disruptive technology that will change the way we ultimately observe and study Earth and the rest of the Solar System. However, what is now beyond doubt is that the first CubeSats have gone interplanetary.

Why spinning lidar sensors might be around for another decade

Lyme Disease Is on the Rise Again

Tick-borne diseases have been ‘steadily going up every year … as the diseases expand to new areas around the country,’ Lyle Peterson of the CDC told reporters in a recent conference call announcing the updated infection estimates. Lyme disease accounts for about 80 percent of the tick-borne illnesses in the U.S.

12-year study will look at effects of universal basic income

Dolphins Are Helping Us Hunt for Aliens

When 12 men gathered at the Green Bank Observatory in West Virginia to discuss the art and science of alien hunting in 1961, the Order of the Dolphin was born. A number of the brightest minds from a range of scientific disciplines, including three Nobel laureates, a young Carl Sagan, and an eccentric neuroscientist named John Lilly—who was best known for trying to talk to dolphins—were in attendance. It was Lilly’s research that inspired the group’s name: If humans couldn’t even communicate with animals that shared most of our evolutionary history, he believed, they were a bit daft to think they could recognize signals from a distant planet.

Cilium 1.0: Bringing the BPF Revolution to Kubernetes Networking and Security

Open sourcing Terratest: a swiss army knife for testing infrastructure code

Musk hung up on NTSB chief during call about Tesla crash probe