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April 2015 Issue

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Gordon Moore: The Man Whose Name Means Progress

The visionary engineer reflects on 50 years of Moore’s Law

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April 2015 Issue

Why Gordon Moore’s grand prediction has endured for 50 years

As the stakes got higher and higher, semiconductor specialists performed the near impossible to keep the winning streak alive

A look at Moore’s Law in action

This year’s cars are super fuel efficient. But with today’s gas prices, will anyone care?

Doubling down on hydrogen fuel cells

Miniaturization may be tough, but there's still room to drive down power consumption in modern computers

As transistors stop shrinking, open-source hardware will have its day

A millionaire’s gull-winged dream

Fast, but it won’t run away from you

The visionary engineer reflects on 50 years of Moore’s Law

An aluminum truck for the masses

The best bang for your buck

Luxury-car brains at mass-market prices

Choose your power: gas, diesel, or electric

A green machine on the racing scene

The future of nuclear energy could lie with supersmall reactors and alternative technologies

Genome-search companies vie to be the Google of personalized medicine

The many metaphors used to explain Net neutrality—and why they all stink

Storage plants built for nuclear power are being revamped for wind and solar

Should privacy and security measures be built into devices before they reach the market?

There is a dark side to the revolution in electronics: unjustified technological expectations

What will we call driving, when we no longer drive?

Pair the Nanospark with an iPhone to create a smart microcontroller

Temporal precision in a box

Consumer devices will run longer by pulling power from the environment

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