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Pump the brakes on buying a self-driving car any time soon
Reading Time: 5 minutesIf you followed CES 2018 in Las Vegas earlier this month or the North American International Auto Show in Detroit, you’re probably already hyped to head to your local dealership and put a down payment on a self-driving car. After all, both shows had plenty of news surrounding autonomous vehicles. And with…
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VICTOR sums up the trends that dominated CES 2018
Reading Time: 9 minutesFor normal people, the end of the year is a time for celebration, vacation, and family. For people in the tech industry, though, it’s a time of frantic preparation for the biggest trade show in the Western Hemisphere: CES. The Consumer Electronics Show takes place in Las Vegas every January, perfectly timed…
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Light up the elements with this periodic table display
Reading Time: < 1 minuteLight up the elements with this periodic table display Arduino Team — January 16th, 2018 If you took chemistry at any point in your life, you were exposed to the periodic table, which organizes different atomic structures by their atomic number. It’s an amazing chart, demonstrating just how much “stuff” our…
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RFID-controlled dry cleaner machine displays glowing leaves
Reading Time: < 1 minuteRFID-controlled dry cleaner machine displays glowing leaves Arduino Team — January 16th, 2018 While you may not give dry cleaning conveyors much thought, Andrew Quitmeyer and Madeline Schwartzman’s “Replantment” exhibition at the Pratt Manhattan Gallery uses them in an entirely new way, along with glowing silicone molds of leaves from all…
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AMD CEO: Our processors are more affordable than Intel's
Reading Time: 3 minutesDespite some recent concerns over security flaws in its chips, AMD (AMD) is poised for another solid year. The Austin, Texas-based chipmaker announced half a dozen new desktop and laptop processors sporting major performance upgrades over the past year, priced at a fraction of Intel’s (INTC) chips. “Our goal is to make…
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Amazon Alexa and Google Assistant duke it out at CES 2018
Reading Time: 4 minutesFILE PHOTO: An Amazon Dot is shown on top of a Hopper at the Dish Network booth during the 2017 CES in Las Vegas, Nevada January 6, 2017. Dish is introducing an “Ask Hopper Skill” that will allow customers to control the Hopper using the Alexa Voice Service. REUTERS/Steve Marcus/File Photo More…
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Automatically open doors with Arduino!
Reading Time: < 1 minuteAutomatically open doors with Arduino! Arduino Team — January 12th, 2018 Tired of doing the mundane task of opening your door? This hack from Sieuwe Elferink takes care of that for you, using an Arduino Uno for control. When someone comes within 50 cm of an ultrasonic sensor attached to the…
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The weirdest tech of CES 2018
Reading Time: 4 minutesJapanese firm Omron’s robot arms can play table tennis. More At its oddest, CES becomes a giant Mad Libs competition in which manufacturers unveil products that seem to have combined trending features and buzzwords — VR, blockchain, Alexa — at random. Consider the following seven items I came across at CES 2018,…
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Sennheiser co-CEO: Why we're betting on AR and VR with 3-D audio
Reading Time: 3 minutesSennheiser co-CEO Andreas Sennheiser doesn’t think virtual reality is the be-all and end-all, but instead, an intermediate step towards a day when augmented reality experiences are commonplace. “I personally don’t believe in mass VR usage because it encapsules yourself — it’s not very social,” Sennheiser told Yahoo Finance at CES 2018 this…
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Honda wants to prove robots can help you, not kill you
Reading Time: 3 minutesRobots. You either believe their cold, mechanical arms and the heartless logic will be humanity’s ultimate undoing, or that they’ll snatch away our jobs and destroy livelihoods. Honda (HMC), though, wants to change that perception. And it’s hoping to do so with four new concept robots. Based on a principle that robots…
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Ford will begin testing self-driving cars in an unnamed city
Reading Time: 3 minutesFord exhibited a self-driving delivery vehicle at CES 2018 this week – a modified Fusion. [Guardian] More The self-driving revolution is already upon us, with companies across the spectrum of the technology industry working hurriedly on the kind of software and hardware that will power the autonomous cars of the near future.…
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Intel wants this drone to fly you around
Reading Time: 4 minutesA two-seater Volocopter drone flies on stage at the Intel Keynote address at CES in Las Vegas, Nevada, U.S. January 8, 2018. REUTERS/Rick Wilking More The plaza outside the Las Vegas Convention Center here had an unusual occupant this week: the prototype of the pilotless, two-passenger helicopter that flew briefly for the…
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Create an Arduino Mega-powered, cable-cutting machine
Reading Time: < 1 minuteCreate an Arduino Mega-powered, cable-cutting machine Arduino Team — January 12th, 2018 What do you do when faced with measuring and cutting a bunch of cables? If you’re Edward Carlson, you “simply” build a machine to do it for you! While it may not save time on this run, at least…
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AMD CEO on chip security flaws: ‘We're absolutely all over this’
Reading Time: 3 minutesAMD CEO Lisa Su told Yahoo Finance that the Austin, Texas-based computer and graphics chip company is quickly working to resolve and address a recently-discovered security flaw that affects AMD (AMD) computer chips. “Security is incredibly important to us as a processor company, and we’re absolutely all over this,” Su told Yahoo…
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Nvidia went all out for PC gaming at CES 2018
Reading Time: 5 minutesNvidia (NVDA) might be making big news at CES 2018 thanks to its artificial intelligence and self-driving car technologies, but the company originally started out by building PC graphics cards. And despite all of its recent success, it’s not leaving those roots behind. In fact, it’s pushing them forward with a number…
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What a security expert thought of a few new smart-home devices at CES 2018
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The Edgytokei is a nunchucks-inspired edge clock
Reading Time: 2 minutesThe Edgytokei is a nunchucks-inspired edge clock Arduino Team — January 11th, 2018 Just when you thought you’d seen every possible hacked clock design, creator Ekaggrat Singh Kalsi has come up with something new: a faceless clock that is able to tell time with two hands that never make a full rotation.…
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Recreating the Apollo Guidance Computer Display and Keyboard with Arduino
Reading Time: < 1 minuteRecreating the Apollo Guidance Computer Display and Keyboard with Arduino Arduino Team — January 11th, 2018 Nearly 50 years ago, mankind made the giant leap of being able to travel to the moon. To celebrate, ST-Geotronics has come of with a replica of the Apollo Guidance Computer Display/Keyboard, or AGC DSKY…
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CES 2018 Day 4 roundup: Self-driving cars and insanely big screens
Reading Time: 3 minutesAs CES 2018 begins to wind down, several themes have begun to emerge for the year ahead in consumer technology. From self-driving cars and virtual assistants galore to new TVs and an abundance of new gaming hardware, CES 2018 was awash in a broad spectrum of gadgets and gizmos. We scoured the…
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Samsung’s plan to dominate the self-driving car industry
Reading Time: 2 minutesSelf-driving cars are coming, and we won’t have to wait nearly as long as we think. That’s what we heard from dozens of companies at CES 2018, including Samsung Electronics (SSNLF), which is vying for a significant chunk of what some estimate will be a $7 trillion market by 2050. The…
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CES 2018 Day 3 roundup: From huggable robots to exercise bike desks
Reading Time: 3 minutesCES 2018 moved into high gear on the third day of the popular tech convention, which meant spending a lot of time on the crowded showroom floors of the Las Vegas Convention Center exploring new wares from companies around the world. On the audio front, one of the major themes this year…





















