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April 2016
This is the year you’ll see self-driving car technology reach mass-market vehicles
Robotics
Video Friday: Snakebot Swimming, Robots and Duckies, and Giant Eyeball Blimp
Your weekly selection of awesome robot videos
Semiconductors
A Pinch of Salt Completes the Recipe for 2-D Materials in Supercapacitors
A low-cost technique offers purer transitional metal oxides for supercapacitor electrodes
Which Companies Pay Engineers the Most?
Juniper Networks, Google, and VMWare shine among U.S. companies that offer high salaries, says recruitment firm Glassdoor
Geek Life
Great Computers Never Die
Catch a glimpse of some classic machines displayed at the Vintage Computer Festival East
Telecom
In Privacy Versus Security, End-to-End Encryption Is Definitely Winning
Viber and WhatsApp have switched it on to protect 1.7 billion users worldwide
Transportation
Jia Yueting’s Sprawling Self-Driving Car Empire
Owner of Faraday Future, investor in Atieva, and partner of Aston Martin unveils flashy LeEco car in Beijing
Semiconductors
Nanotubes Serve as Light Emitter in Integrated Photonic Circuit
CMOS compatible process could enable the next generation of photonic-based computing
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