The city of 2050

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走行中に道路からワイヤレス給電する路線バス「OLEV」が運行開始

「韓国西部の亀尾(クミ)市で、​地中に埋め込んだ電線から走行中にワイヤレス給電できる OLEV 路線バスが運行を開始しました。OLEV (Online Electric Vehicle、オンライン電気自動車)を開発したのは韓国の KAIST (Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology、韓国科学技術院)。」
「KAIST の発表によると、基本的に総運行距離の5%-15%に電線を埋め込めば十分な電力を供給できるとのこと。」
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Twelve Months in Two Minutes; Curiosity's First Year on Mars

映像としては地味。
12ヶ月の間、安定して動作し続けた（？）制御システムとしてみると色々考えるな、など。

Dude, where’s my phone? Simple steps to protect your Android device this summer.

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1. Lock your device screen.

2. Protect your phone from suspicious apps. 
  Scan apps during installing whether it would be installed via GooglePlay or not.

3. Locate, ring and wipe a misplaced device. 
  "A new service called Android Device Manager, which can quickly ring your phone at maximum volume so you can find it  If your phone can’t be recovered, or has been stolen, you can quickly and securely erase all of the data on your device to keep your data from ending up in the wrong hands. "

THE PERFECT PROCESSOR FOR EMBEDDED SYSTEMS

The most fascinating thing in this white paper is "built-in task management".


"Imagine: a chip that comes with its own operating system. 
The built-in task management is so advanced that it can prevent one task from interfering with a more-important task, so for example, an LED update doesn’t interfere with a critical motor-control loop. It can also allow one task to “chain” to another task, so that the two always run consecutively."  

RTOS程度ならCPUコアとセットになる時代？

Source Intel's whilte paper

Quantum boost for artificial intelligence

"Quantum computers of the future will have the potential to give artificial
intelligence a major boost"

"The team developed a quantum version of 'machine learning', a type of AI
in which programs can learn from previous experience to become
progressively better at finding patterns in data. "


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