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January 2017 Issue

An AI alternative to deep learning makes it easier to debug the startup’s self-driving cars

Larry Page and other entrepreneurs want to let robotic pilots whisk you away

In 2017, the company will exploit its manufacturing edge to create a new generation of chips

In 2017, Samsung will likely release a smartphone that transforms into a tablet

Boeing and SpaceX are slated to test-fly spacecraft, first for NASA and then the private sector

Controversy flares as rivals rush to launch 5G services

Supercharged hardware will speed up deep learning in everything from tiny devices to massive data centers

Class-action lawsuits target the biometric privacy policies of several Internet giants

While we waited for a Magic Leap, Pokémon Go walked off with the AR crown

This factory robot can be trusted not to kill its human coworkers

Engineers are figuring out how to let drones fly beyond visual range

For patients with congestive heart failure, mechanical replacements can’t come soon enough

Survival rates are boosted by an oscillating field that attacks dividing cancer cells

The experimental 1,000-component optical processor is made for challenges like the “traveling salesman problem”

Physics simulations and AI combine to give pollution forecasts to city dwellers in Beijing and beyond

A programmable chip turns a robot’s long pauses into quick action

Connected cars and driverless fleet cars are on the way. How will we deal with them?

Samuel Arbesman has some radical ideas for coping with complexity

They need to store an order of magnitude more than anything yet seen

Old-school driver technology proves it still has what it takes

Microchip’s AWS-ECC508 bakes in secure communications

For this radio-controlled lawn mower, the garden of tomorrow never arrived

Disabled engineers make great contributors—if they can get past the interview

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