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...It came the closest in the world to net energy gain last year when it produced 1.37 megajoules from a fusion reaction, which was about 70 per cent of the energy in the lasers on that occasion....
...Bitwise has enlisted the pitchman from Dos Equis’s “The Most Interesting Man in the World” ad campaign, Franklin Templeton’s X account last month temporarily endowed its logo with laser eyes, a popular crypto...
...In that experiment, the reaction produced about 3.15 megajoules, which was about 150 per cent of the 2.05MJ in the lasers....
...How robotaxis work A typical driverless taxi, as in this Waymo example, uses three main types of sensor to build a 3D picture of the environment around it Lidar Transmits millions of laser pulses per...
...So we're looking at a number of different technologies from laser sintering to casting. When we go to the Moon we're essentially going to be back in the Stone Age....
...In the “inertial confinement” process used by NIF, 192 laser beams focus simultaneously on a fuel capsule about the size of a peppercorn that contains two isotopes of hydrogen: deuterium and tritium....
...Cruise maps the roads it drives by mixing road data collected by both cameras and lidar — laser-based sensors. Tesla has called lidar a “crutch”....
...Carson and I play “spot the Waymo” and sing about the laser-sensors that enable the vehicle to see....
...That puts a premium on traits such as golden fur and laser eyes, which fewer than one per cent possess. Buying an ape also brings admission to a club with exclusive membership, enforced with tokens....
...And not incidental instances with lasers and children.)...
...Think of the bond market as a strip of nightclubs, where the popular hotspots can afford to invest in cutting-edge sound systems and laser shows....
...China’s official news agency Xinhua claimed the computer, which comprises lasers, mirrors, prisms and photon detectors, could process 10bn times faster than the quantum computer unveiled by Google last year...
...AT&T’s Bell Labs, which at its 1960s peak “employed 15,000 people, of whom about 1,200 had PhDs”, or Xerox’s Palo Alto Research Centre, which can lay claim to being the originator of the computer mouse, laser...
...We brought fast internet connectivity for our digital publishing to the refurbished building but nothing more than laser printers for physical publishing....
...The British Museum and Google Arts & Culture, a not-for-profit arm of the search company, laser-scanned the plastercasts which had lain in storage for more than a century and commissioned a limestone reproduction...
...“The imperative for marketers across all industries is a laser focus on providing relevant, personalised and engaging experiences,” said Brad Rencher, executive vice-president and general manager of digital...
...But as CDs gave way to digital downloads and now streaming, the industry has been laser-focused on staking out its share of revenues from streaming platforms — sometimes leading to contentious negotiations...
...Waymo also builds its entire self-driving system itself, including not only the software but also hardware such as laser sensors....
...A €637m loan from Coherent, a laser company, for example, was repriced from 3.5 per cent to 2.25 per cent over Euribor....
...Moreover, an appreciating yen and sluggish sales of laser printers have hurt operating performance and profitability in fiscal 2016....
...The Breakthrough Starshot initiative ,announced with Stephen Hawking yesterday, aims to use earthbound lasers to accelerate fleets of “nanocraft”, made out of a silicon chip and an attached atoms-thick sail...
...Propelled by a laser beam boost, each StarChip would travel at 134m miles per hour. Traditional spacecraft would take some 30,000 years to reach Alpha Centauri....
...Brian Gleason, Xaxis chief executive, said the partnership would allow “laser-like targeting” of voters online....
...See also Azzedine Alaïa laser-cut tote (£2,890, net-a-porter.com). Summer game There’s something about the sun that raises the competitive heat and we are witnessing the return of bat-and-ball games....
...They were the early club promoters, tape and record slingers, and artist managers whose class and race often limited their options for advancement and focused them, laser-like, on hip hop....
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