In an attempt to establish itself as a clean energy giant, Tesla Motors has offered to buy SolarCity, one of the largest makers of residential and commercial solar panels. The deal, which was proposed yesterday, would be valued in the neighborhoo...
NXP Semiconductors has taken another step toward sorting out its merger with Freescale and defining its main business. The Dutch chipmaker, which supplies parts to automakers and device makers like Apple, said that it was selling its standard...
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Type low-power wide-area network into a search engine and you will get tangled in a rubber band ball of information about wireless links for sensors and household objects. While most provide similar benefits, there are a dizzying number of option...
The 8 Ball supercomputer, a spherical monolith that can harness the rules of quantum mechanics to solve vastly complex problems, is not real. It’s actually a quantum computer that appeared in a short story written by science fiction novelist Greg...
In the semiconductor industry, the time between new generations of chips is stretching out. The task of etching smaller transistors onto silicon has grown vastly more difficult, while shrinking transistors near atomic limits has introduced...
One of the lesser-known projects being pursued by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration is the development of software that learns automatically to find patterns in scientific data. Now, the project could get its computer hardware from...
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Svenn-Tore Larsen is trying to build a business on Bluetooth. But the company where he serves as chief executive, Nordic Semiconductor, is not using the familiar wireless standard that has found its place in everything from smartphones to...
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