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Jaguar Land Rover To Test Autonomous Cars In 'Living Lab' (thestack.com) 24

Posted by timothy on Monday February 01, 2016 @06:46PM from the good-setting-for-a-horror-movie dept.

An anonymous reader writes: British automaker Jaguar Land Rover has announced its £5.5 million investment in a 'living lab' for the testing and development of connected and self-driving car technologies. The UK Connected Intelligent Transport Environment (CITE) will span 41-miles of public roads around Coventry and Solihull, and will be used to test new connected and autonomous vehicle (CAV) systems in real-life conditions. The company is planning to install roadside sensor equipment around the lab route to monitor vehicle-to-vehicle and vehicle-to-infrastructure communications. The fleet will include 100 CAV cars, which will test four different connectivity technologies; 4G long-term evolution (LTE) and its more advanced version LTE-V, dedicated short-range communication (DSRC), and local Wi-Fi hotspots.

Submission + - A Asteroid Will Pass Very Close to Earth Tomorrow

Submitted by Matt_dk on Monday October 11, 2010 @08:21AM

Matt_dk writes: A small asteroid will pass very close to Earth this Tuesday. Astronomers are still tracking the object, now designated as 2010 TD54, and various estimates say it could possibly come within anywhere from 52,000 km (33,000 miles) to 64,000 km (40,000 miles) on October 12, with closest approach at approximately 11:25 UT.

Intel Abandons Discrete Graphics 165

Posted by timothy on Wednesday May 26, 2010 @02:21PM from the out-of-the-lifeboat dept.

Stoobalou writes with this excerpt from Thinq: "Paul Otellini may think there's still life in Intel's Larrabee discrete graphics project, but the other guys at Intel don't appear to share his optimism. Intel's director of product and technology media relations, Bill Kircos, has just written a blog about Intel's graphics strategy, revealing that any plans for a discrete graphics card have been shelved for at least the foreseeable future. 'We will not bring a discrete graphics product to market,' stated Kircos, 'at least in the short-term.' He added that Intel had 'missed some key product milestones' in the development of the discrete Larrabee product, and said that the company's graphics division is now 'focused on processor graphics.'"

BlackBerry Bold Tops Radiation Ranking 189

Posted by timothy on Thursday February 25, 2010 @09:44PM from the woo-top-of-the-list-awesome dept.

geek4 writes with this excerpt from eWeek Europe: "Data from the Environmental Working Group places the BlackBerry Bold 9700 as the mobile device with the highest legal levels of cell phone radiation among popular smartphones. Research In Motion's BlackBerry Bold 9700 scores the highest among popular smartphones for exposing users to the highest legal levels of cell phone radiation, according to the latest 2010 Environmental Working Group ranking. Following the Bold 9700 are the Motorola Droid, the LG Chocolate and Google's HTC Nexus One. The rankings still put the phones well within federal guidelines and rules."

Feed Wired: Cold-Fusion Graybeards Keep the Research Coming (wired.com)

From feed by wiredfeed on Wednesday August 22, 2007 @03:52AM

Despite a dearth of funding and a plethora of derision from other scientists and the public, cold-fusion scientists continue to publish papers. An MIT gathering creates a forum to renew the discussion.

Comment Re:5.86 Gflops per processor (Score 0) 198

by psoendergaard on Friday August 10, 2001 @08:49AM (#2111921) Attached to: SGI Installs First Itanium Cluster At OSC

Sure, they have a great product: The P4! It has a huge memory bandwidth, better than the Itanium, and with a good compiler it can easily do 1.5 flop per clockcycle in double precision arithmetic (3.0 for single precision). This will give you 2.7 gflops in double precision for a 1.8 ghz P4.

Intel has a fantastic product, but compiler support is currently lacking bit.

The P4 is actually faster than the Athlon for scientific computing, except for the compiler fact, and this IS very important. The P4 looses to the Athlon simply by the reason that the compilers can not use the vector instructions properly. The chip itself is faster.

Why anyone would be an Itanium instead of a dual P4/Athlon beats me, it is supposed to only be a research chip and not really a production chip. It has less on-chip cache than a Celeron (128kb total)!! Sure it's packaged with a lot of sram, but still.

Intel tells everyone to wait for the McKinley, but just look where the P4 and Athlon will be at the time that chip rolls out in full production. It will loose out just as the Itanium is doing now.

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