The UK government has launched a consultation on driverless cars, ahead of on-the-road trials of the vehicles next year. It has now been more than a decade since the prospect of driverless cars on ...

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New research from the University of Waterloo's Cybersecurity and Privacy Institute demonstrates that any artificial ...

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Researchers at Guangdong University of Technology have developed a new method to build powerful, compact energy storage ...

Cristian Cassella, a Northeastern associate professor of electrical and computer engineering, understands this problem better than most; it's one of his areas of focus at the university's Microsystem ...

A research team from the Ningbo Institute of Materials Technology and Engineering (NIMTE) of the Chinese Academy of Sciences ...