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After leaving Apple last year, engineers Souroush Salehian and Mina Rezk co-founded Aeva in Mountain View, California, and recently unveiled its 4D LIDAR system. They say this next generation version of LIDAR (Light Detection and Ranging) technology is superior to what is found in most ...

Blockchain has been dubbed the biggest disrupter since the internet. It has huge potential to improve numerous industries. Possible benefits include reduced costs, elimination of data duplication, increased transaction speed and greater resilience. As blockchain breaks free of its cryptocurrency mold, many businesses are ...

Nearly all Fortune 500 companies use some form of automation in hiring, which is perfectly legal, but is it ethical? That’s the question Ifeoma Ajunwa is asking. The Cornell University sociology and law professor is concerned about the potential for bias when using artificial intelligence ...

The Internet of Things (IoT) is still humming along, but high deployment failure rates and IoT-enabled cyber threats are definitely putting a damper on it. Security, privacy and identity verification remain foundational concerns. Still, IoT is not going away. In fact, it’s a necessity ...

Multi-access edge computing (MEC) is a network architecture that brings real-time, high-bandwidth, low-latency access to radio network information, allowing operators to open their networks to a new ecosystem and value chain. MEC permits multiple types of access at the edge. The benefits of this technology ...

This is a sponsored post from Digi-Key. Written by Jennifer Boscavage With 60 nuclear power plants and 90 reactors in the United States, nuclear engineers have plenty of opportunities to work in alternative energy. Overall, nuclear power has a low impact on the environment, offering engineers ...

The National Science Foundation (NSF) recently announced a five-year $20 million grant for New Mexico’s SMART Grid Center. The grant was based on smart grid research happening at New Mexico State University (NMSU) over the past five years. The grant is part of NSF’s Established ...

California Governor Jerry Brown recently signed a bill to regulate the cyber security standards of connected devices. With this bill (SB 327), California is set to have the toughest Internet of Things (IoT) standards in the United States. It’s the first state with such ...

October is Cyber Security Awareness Month and there’s no better time than now to get your employees on board with cyber security procedures to keep customer information and other general company data protected. Here’s what the Forbes Technology Council suggests for improving employee compliance with ...