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Oct 14, 2015
Tesla is mapping the Earth, ‘cause your GPS won’t cut it for self-driving cars
Posted by Shailesh Prasad in categories: Elon Musk, robotics/AI, sustainability, transportation
Self-driving cars require an incredible amount of information to operate safely. Tesla and Elon Musk know this well.
Tesla Motors formally launched its long-awaited Autopilot feature on Wednesday, which is not quite a self-driving car, but rather a higher degree of autonomy. One of the new features of Autopilot: Tesla is creating high-precision digital maps of the Earth using GPS.
See also: I went hands-free in Tesla’s Model S on Autopilot, even though I wasn’t supposed to.
Oct 14, 2015
Tesla’s New Software Does the Lane-Changing and Parallel Parking For You
Posted by Shailesh Prasad in categories: robotics/AI, transportation
Tesla Motors Inc.’s newest software brings elements of autonomous driving to some of its Model S cars. With updated software, the vehicles can help drivers stay in their highway lane or change lanes for them.
The car can also parallel park for the driver or warn when an object such as another car is too close the side of the Model S, the company said in post on its website.
The maker of luxury electric vehicles has highlighted many high-tech features on its models, such as the industry’s largest touch screen and robust wireless access that allows for software upgrades, such as this update to version 7.0. But it has lagged some rival high-end automakers and even a few mainstream brands in its use of driver-assist technology such as lane-keep assist and adaptive cruise control. Tesla’s new system is the first to include automated lane changing.
Oct 14, 2015
Qualcomm enters the server race with 24-core CPU
Posted by Shailesh Prasad in category: computing
Qualcomm is prepping a massive, 24-core server chip to take on Intel — and says this is just the prototype.
Oct 14, 2015
Scientists Claim That They’ve Found A Particle Which Is Entirely Made of Nuclear Force
Posted by Shailesh Prasad in category: particle physics
After years of searching, researchers say they’ve lastlyidentified a glueball — a particle made only of nuclear force. Hypothesized to exist as part of the standard model of particle physics, glueballs have stunned researchers since the 1970s as they can only be spotted indirectly by measuring their procedure of decay. Now, a group of particle scientists in Austria say they’ve found proof for the existence of glueballs by observing the decay of a particle identified as f0(1710). Protons and neutrons — the particles that everyday matter consist of — are made of tiny elementary particles called quarks, and quarks are seized together by even minor particles called gluons.
Oct 14, 2015
A Geek’s Dream: Tesla Races DeLorean in “Back to the Future” VR Experience — By Daniel Terdiman | Fast Company
Posted by Odette Bohr Dienel in category: virtual reality
“Next Wednesday, the design agency Positron will release a virtual reality “experience” in which viewers can get a first-person look from the cockpit at a race between the DeLorean and a Tesla Model S P90-D. The date is no coincidence: fans know October 21, 2015, is the day Marty McFly arrives in the future in Back to the Future II. This year also marks the 30th anniversary of the first film, released in 1985.”
Oct 14, 2015
Asteroid Mining: The $100 Trillion Industry
Posted by Shailesh Prasad in category: space
The Biggest Opportunity of our Lifetime: Asteroid Mining could be a $100 Trillion Industry.
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Oct 14, 2015
If they had taught us Math using this method, I think most of us would have enjoyed it a lot more!
Posted by Shailesh Prasad in category: education
Oct 14, 2015
Watch: This is the world’s lightest metal
Posted by Shailesh Prasad in category: materials
A few years ago, researchers created the world’s lightest metal for Boeing, and now the airline has shown it off for the first time in this new video. Called microlattice, the material is 100 times lighter than styrofoam but is as rigid as metal, which means that it has some pretty exciting applications — not limited to being able to balance on top of a dandelion.
Microlattice was inspired by the structure of our bones, which are very rigid on the outside but mostly hollow on the inside, which means they can’t be easily crushed, but are lightweight enough for us to carry around all day. The new Boeing metal mimics this, and despite its rigid exterior, it has a 3D open-cellular polymer structure, which means its structure is 99.99 percent air.
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