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Clever AI Turns a World of Lasers Into Maps for Self-Driving Cars

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The greatest advantage self-driving cars hold over outdated humans is the ability to tune out distractions. No buzzing phone, yelling kids, or lovely daydream will divert attention from their primary task. That doesn’t mean they can’t get overwhelmed with information in much the same way you do. The fully autonomous vehicles that companies like Google, Ford, and Baidu are furiously developing all rely on light detection and ranging (LIDAR) to see and map the world. Those maps are key, because they provide crucial context for the vehicles and let them…

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Berliners Can Now Share Gogoro’s Swanky Electric Scooters

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The electric scooter with the lofty aim of changing urban mobility and the way humanity stores and manages electricity, has reached Europe. This morning, Gogoro launched a fleet of 200 scooters in Berlin, and any grownup with a driver’s license can hop on one to roam the German capital—without burning a drop of oil. The much-hyped, well-funded Gogoro revealed its $4,000 Smartscooter at CES in January 2015. The sleek vehicle delivers nice numbers: zero to 30 in 4.2 seconds, top speed of 60 mph, 50-50 weight distribution. When the two…

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Medical Tech 

DNA damage seen in patients undergoing CT scanning, study finds

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Using new laboratory technology, scientists have shown that cellular damage is detectable in patients after CT scanning, according to a new study led by researchers at the Stanford University School of Medicine.   “We now know that even exposure to small amounts of radiation from computed tomagraphy scanning is associated with cellular damage,” said Patricia Nguyen, MD, one of the lead authors of the study and an assistant professor of cardiovascular medicine at Stanford. “Whether or not this causes cancer or any negative effect to the patient is still not…

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AI

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As our investment in technology is increasing, our world is updated by new technologies that benefit our daily life. In some countries, robots are beginning to deliver food and services, work in factories, and do things that human cannot do. Soon, we may see human-like robots talking to humans as if they have real brains and intellectual ability, or mimicking our facial impressions as if they have real feelings of satisfaction and anger. AI is on its way to our life. AI is short for Artificial Intelligence, which is defined…

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Chinese Car App “Didi” Updates the Safety Measures After the Murder Incident

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Chinese Car App “Didi” Updates the Safety Measures After the Murder Incident The leading car-hailing firm “Didi” in China is updating its services after the murder of one of its users recently. The online car app service is currently suspending its carpooling services at night. At the same time, Didi is also considering going for an audio recording of all the respective journeys. The given proposals had been made after 10 days of the incident wherein a 21-year-old air stewardess had been murdered after she had booked a ride with…

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Transport Tech 

Solar Impulse Just Completed Its Momentous Flight Around the World

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Sun haters, to the left. Solar Impulse 2 touched down in Abu Dhabi today, becoming the first fuel-free plane to successfully circumnavigate the globe. OK, so the 22,000-mile trip took a minute: The solar-powered bird lifted off from the same city in March 2015. But despite a few setbacks, the plane and Swiss pilot Bertrand Piccard (who took shifts with fellow flyer André Borschberg) touched down without incident. Solar Impulse 2 is a seriously nifty machine. Its 236-foot wingspan makes it wider than a Boeing 747, but the thing is…

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Quantum computers may revolutionize chemistry

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As powerful as today’s traditional supercomputers are, they still struggle greatly with modeling chemical systems. For example, chemists still don’t fully understand exactly how bacteria produce fertilizer at room temperature. Considering the fact that fertilizer production is inefficient and consumes as much as two percent of the world’s energy each year, solving its mysteries could save billions of dollars. Now, researchers from Harvard, Lawrence Berkeley National Labs, UC Santa Barbara, Tufts University and University College London are one step closer to being able to solve that and other difficult models…

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We hereby announce Tech Innovation Today’s Spring 2018 Technology Essay Contest Finalists!

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We hereby announce Tech Innovation Today’s Spring 2018 Technology Essay Contest Finalists! Our finalizes were chosen this year from more than 140 essays hailing from 12 countries. Thank you for your participation! Hang Wu Mingxuan Xu Graham Stevens Fei Yang Rongzi Peng Gulin Kumar Qunzhe Lin Susan Park K.S. Son Congxi Song Tianze Lin Jie Zhang Ruoci Ning Ying Ying Chen Mark Xu Ruixuan Liu Zhe Zhang

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Medical Tech 

Designing ultrasound tools with Lego-like proteins

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Ultrasound imaging is used around the world to help visualize developing babies and diagnose diseases. Sound waves bounce off the tissues, revealing their different densities and shapes. The next step in ultrasound technology is to image not just anatomy, but specific cells and molecules deeper in the body, such as those associated with tumors or bacteria in our gut.   A new study from Caltech outlines how protein engineering techniques might help achieve this milestone. The researchers engineered protein-shelled nanostructures called gas vesicles — which reflect sound waves — to…

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Error fix for long-lived qubits brings quantum computers nearer

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By Jacob Aron Useful quantum computers are one step closer, thanks to the latest demonstration of a technique designed to stop them making mistakes. Quantum computers store information as quantum bits, or qubits. Unlike binary bits, which store a 0 or a 1, qubits can hold a mixture of both states at the same time, boosting their computing potential for certain types of problems. But qubits are fragile – their quantum nature means they can’t hold data for long before errors creep in. So researchers wanting to build large-scale computers invented quantum…

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