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Peregrine's Patent Portfolio Surpasses 450 Issued and Pending Patents
Sep 11, 2017Patent Portfolios--6th in the Semiconductor-Manufacturing Sector and 24th Overall Peregrine Semiconductor Corp of San Diego, CA, USA – a fabless provider of radio-frequency integrated circuits (RFICs) based on silicon-on-insulator ...
Tags: Semiconductor, pending patents
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Feb 27, 2014Editor’s Note: As this podcast was being prepared, on 19 February 2014, the U.S. Federal Communications Commission announced plans to issue network neutrality regulations under another section of the Telecommunications Act, and ...
Tags: ISPs, Podcast, FCC, net neutrality
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Faulty Software Has Forced The Japanese Automaker to Recall 1.9 Million of Such Vehicles
Feb 27, 2014Faulty software in Toyota's popular Prius hybrids has forced the Japanese automaker to recall 1.9 million of such vehicles worldwide. The huge recall—representing more than half of all Prius cars ever sold—shows how Toyota has ...
Tags: Toyota, Software Flaw, Prius software
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Evidence for D-Wave's Claim to Have Built Commercial Quantum Computers Just Got Weaker
Feb 26, 2014The strongest scientific evidence for D-Wave's claim to have built commercial quantum computers just got weaker. A new paper finds that classical computing can explain the performance patterns of D-Wave's machines just as well as quantum ...
Tags: D-Wave, IEEE Spectrum's, quantum computer, ETH Zurich
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Climate Experts Recently Chose Distributed Nuclear Power to Make a Big Impact on Climate
Feb 19, 2014How would you advise a $100-billion venture capital fund to spend its money on preventing dangerous levels of global warming over the next 100 years? Climate experts recently chose distributed renewable energy, energy efficiency, and ...
Tags: Renewable Power
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NHSTA Will Soon Propose Rules for Vehicle to Vehicle Communications on U.S. Roads
Feb 13, 2014The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHSTA) will soon propose rules for vehicle to vehicle (V2V) communications on U.S. roads, it announced yesterday. The agency is now finalizing a report on a 2012 trial with almost 3000 ...
Tags: Vehicle-to-Vehicle, Communications
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Google Exited The Smartphone Manufacturing Business and Shored up Android's Legal Defenses
Feb 10, 2014Google has exited the smartphone manufacturing business and shored up Android's legal defenses in the smartphone patent wars in a single week. The technology giant sold off Motorola Mobility to Lenovo in a US $12.5-billion deal on Wednesday ...
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Big Changes of IEEE Spectrum on Your Phone
Feb 8, 2014If you routinely visit IEEE Spectrum on your phone, you've probably noticed some big changes recently. If you've never tried looking at this site on your phone, now's the perfect time to start! We've made major overhauls to the the mobile ...
Tags: IEEE Spectrum, Flash Necessary, mobile improvements, Speed
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Digi-Key Has Grown and Grown Into One of The Largest Electronic-Component Distributors
Feb 7, 2014In the 42 years since its founding, Digi-Key Corp. has grown—and grown—into one of the world’s largest electronic-component distributors. Its online catalog features nearly a million parts and products. Last year it sold ...
Tags: Mouser Electronics, IEEE Spectrum, SpaceX, Digi-Key
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Engineers Designed New Tools to Help Restore a Surgeon's Sense of Touch
Jan 22, 2014Surgeons' best tools for locating tumors inside the body are often their hands. But during minimally invasive surgeries—which can reduce recovery time by days—the ability to examine tissue through touch, called palpation, is ...
Tags: Electrical, Electronics
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South Korea Was Working on Some Sort of Massive Robot Theme Park
Jan 21, 2014In 2009, we heard that South Korea was working on some sort of massive robot theme park that was scheduled to open in 2012. And then, we kind of didn't hear anything for a very, very, very long time. Now that it's 2014, Robot Land is back ...
Tags: Consumer Electronics, Electronics
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A Research Team Has Produced One of 3-D Topological Dirac Semimetals
Jan 17, 2014While many believe that the key to producing the next generation of chips lies in developing better manufacturing techniques for nanomaterials rather than just creating new nanomaterials, there are others who simply can't resist the ...
Tags: mimics graphene, Construction, Chemicals
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Google X Lab Is Developing a Smart Contact Lens
Jan 17, 2014If Google's latest project is successful, the finger prick test for blood sugar levels could eventually become a thing of the past for diabetics. Google X lab is developing a smart contact lens that can measure glucose levels in tears ...
Tags: Smart Contact Lens, Google
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A Much-Discussed Piece on The Discrepancy Between Corporate Profits and Labor Compensation
Jan 13, 2014This is a guest post. The views expressed here are solely those of the author and do not represent positions of IEEE Spectrum or the IEEE. Two years ago, New York Times columnist Paul Krugman wrote a much-discussed piece on the ...
Tags: Robotics Industry, Robot
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A City Known for Its Gordian Roundabouts Is Testing a Clean New Form of Public Transit
Jan 13, 2014A city known for its Gordian roundabouts and pedestrian-defeating roads is testing a clean new form of public transit: electric buses charged via induction. The borough of Milton Keynes, in the UK, will begin testing eight electric buses ...