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On this week’s podcast: The adoption of renewable energy sources complicates the process of managing power grids. To compensate, the industry is trying to develop massive storage batteries, but what i...

28 Maj 202137min

This week’s podcast: Space exploration was once the exclusive province of nation-states. Now space is being commercialized. But what does that mean, exactly? Where are we heading, and how will we get ...

21 Maj 202130min

This week’s podcast: There is so much more to learn before machine vision is anywhere near as capable as human eyesight, but we’re making progress toward that goal all the time. This week we discuss p...

14 Maj 202137min

This week’s podcast: The concept of smart cities got a lot of buzz 20 years ago, and then the hype died. But in the intervening years, there’s been a lot of activity preparing for a resurgence of smar...

7 Maj 202139min

This week’s podcast: Silicon Labs just sold off a thriving business line that represented 40 percent of sales. Junko Yoshida interviews Silicon Labs CEO Tyson Tuttle on why a company would do somethin...

30 Apr 202127min

This week’s podcast: Nvidia is as dominant in its area of expertise — GPUs, as Arm is in its area of expertise — processor core designs. Each already has an enormous amount of market power. Is letting...

23 Apr 202128min

This week’s podcast: Ten years ago, Arm introduced its v8 architecture of its processor cores, which turned out to be a pretty big deal. The company just revealed v9. The announcement was light on det...

9 Apr 202126min

This week’s podcast: Every year, the automotive industry is offering vehicles with increasingly autonomous capabilities. There is a problem in how it describes its progress that is already undermining...

2 Apr 202130min