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We asked our panel of industry players if they thought telcos would make a move for a dominant role in edge computing. Most were not entirely convince...

A "think tank" is, in general United States of America|American parlance, an institution dedicated to research and/or analysis which does not ...

How the Bayh-Dole Act wrested public science from the people’s hands.

11:35 The chip that Piet Haaijman brought from Silicon Valley to Philips’ Natlab in 1962 caused the sense of urgency needed to invest in lithography. Compared to the US, Europe was another planet in the decades after World War II, in both economic and technological terms. Countries like England and France were putting money into defense technology, but not the billions the Americans were investing. Large industrial companies like Philips and Siemens primarily served consumers and other compan...

R&D The aim of the scheme is to boost high-risk projects “I want the UK to continue to be a global science superpower,” said Boris Johnson last year. On the basis of current R& GDP devoted to R& Listen to this story Enjoy more audio and podcasts oniOSorAndroid. The government’s first step towards improving Britain’s dismal performance is the announcement that Kwasi Kwarteng, the new business secretary, is creating an agency to foster fundamental research. Its working title, the “Ad...

For five years, we lived with one of the most brilliant people on the planet. Sort of. See, we spent those all-consuming five years writing our biography of American mathematician Claude Shannon, whose work in the 1930s and ’40s earned him the title of “father of the information age.” That’s how long it took us to understand the influence of the most important genius you’ve never heard of, a man whose intellect was on par with that of Albert Einstein and Isaac Newton. During that time...

Insights on work from the life of mathematician Claude Shannon, the most influential figure you've never heard of.

Nokia selected by NASA to build first ever cellular network on the Moon Nokia selected by NASA to build first ever cellular network on the Moon Lunes, 19 Octubre 2020 04:01 LTE/4G technology promises to revolutionize lunar surface communications by delivering reliable, high data rates while containing power, size and cost. Communications will be a crucial component for NASAs Artemis program, which will establish a sustainable presence on the Moon by the end of the decade. E...

December 19th, 2020 Bell Telephone Labs The modern world would be a pale shade of itself if not for the myriad foundational technologies developed at the Bell Telephone Labs. Its engineers invented the transistor and photovoltaic cell, charge-coupled devices, frickin’ lasers — even Unix and the C++ programming language. Those same engineers also worked with some of the Cold War era’s most influential artists — including Andy Warhol, Robert Rauschenberg, and Yvonne Rainer — to create a...