Jony Ive, Apple's design boss, said in a recent speech that the miniaturization of the clock, and the democratization of time, was part of what inspiredApple's miniaturization of the computer.
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This is why miniaturization is so important to North Korea.
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And that's a question of missile design, not of miniaturization.
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DIY projects typically aren't best known for their miniaturization efforts.
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"It is the ultimate way to miniaturization," Dr. Lutz said.
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This "miniaturization" capability has long eluded the country's weapons development program.
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What makes the hydrogen bomb more concerning is this "miniaturization" process.
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The Japanese Ministry of Defense also believes North Korea has achieved miniaturization.
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"We've been monitoring virtual and mixed reality and sensor miniaturization," Stephens said.
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The odd thing is, people are often complicit in their own miniaturization.
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One is the continued trend in miniaturization and its implications on interactive eyewear.
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"I know there's some debate about the miniaturization advancements made by Pyongyang," Adm.
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First, they cover how cellular miniaturization was discovered, tested, and presented to the world.
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This is completely possible, as we can witness in the ongoing miniaturization of technology.
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The miniaturization of these devices will require a different interface than touch or keyboard.
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Mobile phones have already laid the path from coding to miniaturization, infrastructure and ecosystem.
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Yang Jianjun still remembers the stress of working on drone miniaturization with others at Qualcomm.
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It called the photos and miniaturization claim an "intolerable direct challenge" to the international community.
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While consumer electronics have greatly benefited from miniaturization, the same can't be said about space.
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Eugene: The miniaturization of music recording has created this illusion that this shit is easy.
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This report of miniaturization goes a long way toward confirming that implication beyond a doubt.
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This shows that, during the miniaturization process, there's a tradeoff between genome size and growth rate.
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Miniaturization is partly a matter of improving the conventional explosives used to trigger the nuclear device.
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" [Holmes] added that, thanks to "miniaturization and automation, we are able to handle these tiny samples.
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"But the second goal — the miniaturization of machines — we're really just getting started," Dr. Miskin said.
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We didn't have the miniaturization of computing power or power density capabilities that we have today.
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But the smartphone revolution led to rapid miniaturization of technology and a rapid decrease in pricing.
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These advantages look especially appealing as the limits of miniaturization and efficiency for silicon microprocessors now loom.
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The miniaturization progresses, now the computer fits in the backpack, you can bring it to a gig.
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Ms. McGlynn said that the miniaturization of cameras has "almost certainly" contributed to the rise of upskirting.
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So miniaturization I think is less important for this type of ... Maybe something lighter on the head.
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This miniaturization of rockets and spacecraft places outer space within reach of a broader swath of the economy.
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"Think about the convergence of hardware development, the miniaturization of sensor technology, big data and AI," said Ahuja.
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FB: Miniaturization is a really important effect of the book, which shrinks all of these philosophical dualisms down.
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Hank Pym is the co-inventor of the miniaturization/growth technology and was, in fact, the original Ant-Man.
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Design, sourcing, miniaturization and manufacturing is all ludicrously complicated, and often isn't core to the functionality of a fitness tracker.
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"Generation over generation you're going to see a dramatic miniaturization," Ryan Pamplin, Meta's VP of Sales and Partnerships, told me.
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Big Data, AI, miniaturization, and automation will bring changes that dwarf what the internet revolution has brought about thus far.
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Born in Iran, he learned satellite design at the University of Texas and NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory, specializing in miniaturization.
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Among the evolutionary advantages of miniaturization in animals were opportunities to occupy new habitats and exploit alternate food sources, he said.
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And, indeed, previewing what's coming to the show in September, confirms those proclivities: Car makers are taking the miniaturization idea global.
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Innovations in machine learning and AI, device miniaturization, cryptocurrency, and autonomous vehicles held out one promise after another of uninterrupted growth.
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Mobile has driven the kind of miniaturization that can take a hack out of the garage and into the mass market.
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This miniaturization is made possible by FLIR's partnership with Movidius—the makers of the new Myriad 2 chip that powers it.
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Get smart: The reason miniaturization is so key is because a missile's range depends on how heavy the nuclear warhead is.
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Facebook also expects to create and ship these sensors at scale, thanks in part to miniaturization advancements from the telecom industry.
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The diminutive 12-inch MacBook was (and is) a marvel of miniaturization, but it was too underpowered and overpriced for most people.
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In the world of hardware and sensors, there's a race toward miniaturization and efficiency both for spacefaring satellites and their terrestrial endpoints.
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Miniaturization one of several key steps Miniaturizing a nuclear weapon is one key part of building a nuclear-armed intercontinental ballistic missile.
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The millipede measures only 8.2 millimeters in length, making it an "an extreme case of miniaturization" for its order, the study said.
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They are the result of great feats of design, engineering, and technological miniaturization, however I haven't fallen in love with either one.
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"The whole maker, additive manufacturing, miniaturization, commoditization, reduction of cost… has really enabled this kind of citizen science and engineering," he said.
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Even as computers and devices have trended toward miniaturization over the years, desktop graphics cards have only seemed to get increasingly monstrous.
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Over the next three decades, chip makers embarked on a seemingly endless miniaturization effort that made computers more powerful and more affordable.
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Miniaturization was confounding: how is it possible to make something so small and so perfect, and why in the world would you?
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Seborer helped devise the bomb's explosive trigger, an innovation that was part and parcel of the 20th-century trend toward weapon miniaturization.
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The focus on the intercontinental ballistic missiles (ICBM ) program and the miniaturization of nuclear weapons gets the headline but ignores other possibilities.
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That single satellite's capabilities can be distributed across ten or 20 satellites, themselves at reduced cost thanks to miniaturization and advanced electronics.
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I far prefer its minimalist look to Nintendo's original hardware, but I do acknowledge the Super Nt benefits from decades of electronics miniaturization.
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These are, by far, the most compact and unobtrusive true wireless earphones I've tested, and I commend Samsung's advances on the miniaturization front.
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Pyongyang will likely detonate more devices as it tries to master the miniaturization of nuclear warheads to put atop missiles, the lawmakers said.
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As a holding tank of its own, Climats Artificiels contains a rather pleasurable pantomime sensibility based on manipulations of the miniaturization of landscape.
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The design is clearly an homage to the Atari of yore, but it's also not a straight up miniaturization like the NES Classic.
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Instead, they are housed in places like Leisureland—a vast biodome, self-enclosed and self-sustaining, to which the Safraneks travel for miniaturization.
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In March 2016, she accompanied Kim Jong Un to a field guidance for nuclear scientists, where he claimed successful miniaturization of nuclear warheads.
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In the years since, improvements have made the Falcon 9 more powerful, and miniaturization of electronics has shrunk the size of many satellites.
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But over the past decade, manufacturers have developed ways to make satellites smaller and smaller, thanks to standardization and miniaturization of consumer electronics.
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Experts say fine tuning the nuclear warhead miniaturization on the missiles is one reason the North Koreans want to continue testing nuclear weapons.
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Part of the reason this design was even possible is the miniaturization of components along with the computing power now available on small chips.
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The laws of physics can't be fooled, and we have reached a level where the miniaturization of transistors is now bumping against physical limits.
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The laws of physics can't be fooled and we have reached a level where the miniaturization of transistors is now bumping against physical limits.
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"The NIMPH system combines in situ resource utilization, miniaturization, [and] electric propulsion," said ExoTerra Resource President Michael VanWoerkom at the NIAC symposium in 2016.
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Like us, Girault was using the sweep and miniaturization of the panorama to document a roisterous city, where past beauties framed contemporary political troubles.
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Meanwhile, an ongoing revolution in the life sciences, toward miniaturization and automation, places the possibility of doing sophisticated molecular biology in outer space within reach.
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The screen has a slightly lower resolution but should be the same PPI — it's more of a cutout of the original screen than a miniaturization.
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Planet's own satellite imaging business has involved miniaturization of satellite tech, as well as growing the scale of its manufacturing operation to meet its needs.
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The miniaturization of AI is a big step forward Running these programs can be tricky, though, as they take up a lot of processing power.
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But Yankees reliever Andrew Miller, who played college ball with Hansen at North Carolina, said miniaturization might eventually change that, assuming privacy concerns were addressed.
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Miniaturization may not work for orbiting telescopes used in astronomy, nor for high-powered satellites that beam television signals to rooftop antennas and home viewers.
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With advances in electronics and miniaturization, satellites have been getting smaller, and the trend among rocket start-ups — has been toward smaller and smaller rockets.
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Given current trends in miniaturization and quantum computing, the third requirement—availability of suitable hardware—seems likely to be achieved before the end of the century.
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People think it's just the astronauts going up into space, but it's the technology: Magnetic resonance imaging, miniaturization, GPS—we couldn't have Pokémon Go without it!
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The miniaturization of nuclear equipment and other technological advances have facilitated the potential acquisition of nuclear weapons by terrorist groups, organized crime networks, and rebel movements.
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"Hypersonic weapons use advances in electronic capacity, sensor quality, and miniaturization to create a new threat," said Trey Obering, former head of the Missile Defense Agency.
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Another, a backpack-size craft made in the United States, is to open up and bounce radar signals off Earth's surface — a major feat of miniaturization.
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Taking advantage of 32 years of electronics miniaturization, the new Teddy Ruxpin no longer feels like you're lifting a hefty cassette player that's been wrapped in fur.
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North Korea is likely moving along the miniaturization path, developing a boosting process and reducing the amount of chemical explosive needed to compress the core, experts say.
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This miniaturization of AI and Facebook's new Caffe2go infrastructure (which is available to developers) is going to enable lots of new features, says Facebook CTO Mike Schroepfer.
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Drivers of greater wearable adoption include consumers new to the market; the improved accuracy of sensors; "advances in miniaturization"; and better protection of user data, Gartner said.
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But the appeal of miniaturization is likely to grow: a large mission becomes less vulnerable to total failure if it can be subdivided into many tiny parts.
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The slowdown led designers to start dreaming up more specialized chips that could work alongside Intel processors and wring more benefits from the miniaturization of chip circuitry.
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Miniaturization of Hardware Along with Computer Vision and AI will allow Diagnostic Imaging to be Mobile Medical imaging is dominated by large incumbents that are slow to innovate.
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The demand for miniaturization had led Gordon Moore, Fairchild's head of R&D, to hypothesize that the number of components on an integrated circuit would double every year.
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Considering how far we've come in other sectors when it comes to miniaturization, manufacturing techniques and power efficiency, Carmena and Maharbiz thought, why don't we have something better?
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Innovations in miniaturization and battery life will provide hundreds of times the computing power of your current smartphone, and on-board earbuds will be embedded in the temples.
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These firms are using technology that's been made affordable for startup budgets through miniaturization and efficiency gains evolved through the progress of the smartphone and other computing industries.
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Kim's totalitarian regime is working furiously on the miniaturization and other technological advances that would enable it to fire a nuclear-tipped intercontinental ballistic missile at Los Angeles.
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That compares with the assessment in last year's report in which the government said it was possible North Korea had achieved miniaturization, the Japanese daily said without citing sources.
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Through its own engineering expertise and with the knowledge gained by acquiring Hush, Bose has put a lot of work into miniaturization and making these as tiny as possible.
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Five nuclear tests over the past 11 years suggest that the regime has indeed developed nuclear weaponry, and many analysts now believe that the miniaturization process is progressing rapidly.
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The rate of change in these fields has become not just incremental, but exponential, as one technology builds upon another, extreme miniaturization occurs, and the cost of manufacturing plummets.
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"The trajectory of the traditional semiconductor industry is all around miniaturization—making things smaller and thinner," John Rogers, a professor in engineering from the University of Illinois, told Gizmodo.
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Yet Intel has lately struggled to sustain Moore's Law, the pace of chip miniaturization named for the company's co-founder, Gordon Moore, which expands the capabilities of its chips.
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Just two years after its founding, its patented tourbillon differential — which helps allow enhanced miniaturization of parts — won the best-innovation prize at the Grand Prix d'Horlogerie de Genève.
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The successful development of the daunting technology let Los Alamos significantly reduce the amount of costly fuel needed for atomic bombs and began a long trend of weapon miniaturization.
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The virtual pet has now been made even smaller and easier to pocket, but decades of electronic miniaturization is unfortunately the only technological improvement the resurrected Tamagotchi takes advantage of.
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It qualifies as transportable, but then so do all-in-one PCs, which have a number of ergonomic advantages and don't come with the same miniaturization premium as a laptop.
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As proof of concept, researchers stored a passage from scientist Richard Feynman's classic lecture on miniaturization, Plenty of room at the bottom, in a 1,016-byte block of atomic memory.
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But interest in the use of animals has changed with the development of microelectronics and miniaturization that allowed small listening devices to be put on birds and even small mammals.
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There's a huge number of technology spin offs from the program [like] ... the miniaturization of computers that people walk around with their cell phones or UV coatings on your sunglasses.
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Related: North Korea Is Slowly Learning How to Launch a Ballistic Missile From a Submarine "In the past, North Korea has also used the word miniature or miniaturization," Hanham said.
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"There's no reason this couldn't be integrated into smartphones in the next few years," says Harrison, anticipating miniaturization of the EM sensing tech to pave the way for future commercial deployment.
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Thanks to the miniaturization of electronics and the standardization of satellite technology, manufacturers are able to build vehicles as small as cereal boxes that are just as capable as their predecessors.
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What's missing: Miniaturization details: We don't know to what extent North Korea has miniaturized a nuclear warhead — South Korea has assessed that it's likely not technologically capable of miniaturizing a warhead enough.
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Indeed, tin usage is facing its own structural challenge from the miniaturization of solders and demand is estimated to have contracted by a little over three percent last year, according to ITRI.
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But Iceye-X1, which weighs less than 220 pounds, takes advantage of the miniaturization of modern consumer electronics, largely using off-the-shelf components, and the cheaper rides to space now available.
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North Korea's miniaturization of nuclear weapons has gone from essentially the size of a large refrigerator a decade ago to something small enough to fit inside its ballistic missiles, according to experts.
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Writing about satellites: Now, driven largely by miniaturization and manufacturing efficiency gains resulting from the ubiquity of home computing and smartphones, those components are a lot more affordable and a lot more available.
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"Creating a large sensor camera of the size of a[n action] camera required unprecedented optical and mechanical miniaturization, and continuous autofocus appears to be one of the tradeoffs," said a Sony representative.
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Yet any nation that has built nuclear weapons and long-range missiles, as North Korea has done, can easily overcome the relatively much simpler technological challenge of warhead miniaturization and reentry vehicle design.
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Miniaturization The Boson is half the size, one tenth the volume, one seventh the weight and twice as power efficient as the previous model made by FLIR which was called the TAU 2.
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"Given the time that has elapsed since its first nuclear test, we believe that North Korea has achieved a significant level of miniaturization," Han Min-koo, South Korea's defense minister, said in March.
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There's quite a bit of competition in the spherical space, from the likes of GoPro and Insta360, but Vecnos is touting the miniaturization of the components as one of its camera's standout features.
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Yet, here we are 85033 years later, and the incredible power of the PC revolution, the internet revolution, the digital revolution, the miniaturization revolution and, oh yeah, wireless internet, are almost entirely neglected.
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"The large body size and high number of grasping spines in C. praetermissus may indicate that miniaturization and migration to a planktonic lifestyle," the lifestyle most chaetognaths enjoy today, "were secondary," the researchers write.
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Cracking open my iPhone 6 Plus—Apple's version of the big-screen "phablet"—reveals not just a marvel of globally sourced miniaturization but also a high-tech road map that touches just about everywhere.
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"We believe they have accomplished miniaturization of a nuclear warhead to mount it on a Rodong missile," said the South Korean official, who has knowledge of South Korea's assessment of the North's nuclear program.
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It's not the fastest or the sexiest, but after taking a spin in one it's easy to see how it could play a part in the miniaturization, electrification, and personalization of our future cities.
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One main cause for concern was the company's stumble in establishing a new process for producing tinier transistors on chips, a pattern of miniaturization that regularly lowers the cost of computing and storing data.
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The missile program has put satellites in orbit -- albeit to a questionable degree of success -- and "advanced its long-range missiles and (taken significant steps towards) the successful miniaturization of a nuclear warhead," Choi added.
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Miniaturization is a critical step toward being able to mount such a device onto a missile -- so, if the report is true, it's certainly worthy of due concern by those charged with our national defense.
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While experts are dubious as to the accuracy of these claims, undoubtedly Pyongyang is working towards miniaturization, and has recently tested submarine-launched ballistic missiles (SLBMs), which would give it the capability to strike Hawaii.
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Kim said on Wednesday his country has miniaturized nuclear warheads to mount on ballistic missiles and ordered improvements in the power and precision of its arsenal in his first direct comment about nuclear warhead miniaturization.
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Unfortunately, the constant miniaturization of electronics means that solder demand does not directly follow demand for semiconductors, but the longer-term outlook for tin is strong, said Jeremy Pearce, technology team leader at the association.
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In addition, as technology continues to progress and lead to the miniaturization of sensors, receivers and transmitter and lighter materials, smaller drones are increasingly expected to perform those larger missions currently reserved to large drone platforms.
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Nuclear experts say the metal sphere does indeed resemble a warhead, and that North Korea's history of nuclear tests suggests it is at least within the realm of possibility that the country could have achieved miniaturization.
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The law has held up remarkably well since the 1970s, but Intel—the biggest adopter of Moore's chip guidance—has shown signs of chip miniaturization slowing, stretching out Moore's original two-year prediction to 2.5 years.
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Although the PlayStation Classic is a faithful miniaturization of the original console, it's simply an emulator, and the people at YouTube channel Retro Gaming Arts have managed to find a way to access the console's secret menu.
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But when I look at the limits of what's possible today — in terms of miniaturization of audio and wireless components — I can't see a better combination of price, features, and performance than what's offered by the AirPods.
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Meanwhile, thanks to gains in networking, language processing and miniaturization, it has become simple to manufacture small, cheap computers that can understand basic questions and commands, gather and synthesize information from online databanks and control other electronics.
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The diplomatic pressure from China to stop a sixth nuclear test at the Punggye-ri test site is intended to keep the North Koreans from making advances in warhead miniaturization and the design of a hydrogen bomb.
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While miniaturization is critical, it does not in and of itself speak to the ability to mount the warhead on a missile, precisely target that missile, or ensure the warhead can even survive reentry into the Earth's atmosphere.
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One could readily envision the miniaturization of computers, the rise of smart phones and Dick Tracy watches, the proliferation of sensors, higher processing speeds, storage capacity, compute power that would permit robotics, augmented intelligence and edge network computing.
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The second part of their work, then, and the part that is clearly most in need of further improvement and miniaturization, is the receiver, which collects and re-transmits the sensor's signal to a phone or other device.
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He cited the rapidly falling cost of space access thanks to reusable rockets, as well as the miniaturization of key technologies such as software-defined radios as the main reasons that space-based cell networks are finally viable.
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But the development of the Heavy took years longer than anticipated — the central booster had to be redesigned to withstand the stresses of the powerful side boosters — and with advances in miniaturization, the trend is toward smaller satellites.
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It inflects the display of four sculptures whose visible debts to Robert Gober's surreal conflations of objects and Charles LeDray's miniaturization of the everyday are balanced by the artist's own strange sense of bricolage, scale and mordant allusion.
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Boosting is key to miniaturizing a thermonuclear weapon, and Pyongyang must master miniaturization in order to build a warhead small enough to fit atop a ballistic missile that can reach the United States or other distant targets, experts said.
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Japan has upgraded its estimate of North Korea's nuclear weapons capability in an upcoming annual Defense White Paper, saying it seems Pyongyang has already achieved the miniaturization of warheads, the Yomiuri newspaper said in an unsourced report on Wednesday.
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Major breakthroughs in the sophistication and miniaturization of surveillance technology, particularly after World War II, concomitant with political, social, and cultural trends, fostered an acceptance of widespread physical surveillance by not only the government but private citizens as well.
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Kemp, a former NASA CTO, and Adam London, an aerospace engineer who previously founded rocket miniaturization startup Ventions, designed their rocket startup from the ground up in a way that's quite different from companies like SpaceX, Blue Origin and Rocket Lab.
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TOKYO (Reuters) - Japan has upgraded its estimate of North Korea's nuclear weapons capability in an upcoming annual Defence White Paper, saying it seems Pyongyang has achieved the miniaturization of warheads, the Yomiuri newspaper said in an unsourced report on Wednesday.
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Three powerful trends — including miniaturization of diagnostic imaging devices, next generation imaging to for the earliest stages of disease detection and virtual medicine — are shaping the ways in which visual technologies are poised to improve healthcare over the next decade.
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While news of potential miniaturization of a nuclear device by North Korea was cited in a Japanese Defense Ministry annual report earlier on Tuesday, the decline in global markets during U.S. trading hours coincided with a report from the Washington Post.
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Yet remember, as we already know from press reports, North Korea has been diligently working on everything that would actually be required for such a confrontation: miniaturization of nuclear warheads, intercontinental ballistic missiles, and even cyberwarfare (per the Sony hacking episode).
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Development on IoT, augmented and mixed reality, Assistive Intelligence (my term for AI, but that's an entirely different conversation) and even the miniaturization and extension properties on display in mobility and power advancements are all examples of the quest for that quality.
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After the North's recent claims, the South Korean Defense Ministry said on March 9 that it did not believe the North had achieved the miniaturization of a nuclear warhead, but it did not clarify whether it meant long-or short-range missiles.
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The comedy's cast includes the "Saturday Night Live" veterans Kristen Wiig (as Mr. Damon's reluctant wife) and Jason Sudeikis (as a gung ho advocate of miniaturization), and the new trailer offers glimpses of Laura Dern, Neil Patrick Harris, Niecy Nash and Christoph Waltz.
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While all eyes here have been focused on Trump, North Korea has been focused on perfecting the miniaturization of its nuclear stockpile into warheads that could fit on long-range ballistic missiles and on methodically testing those missiles, with mixed success, so far.
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The U.S. government today also believes China obtained information through espionage in the 1980s and as late as the 1990s about U.S. nuclear secrets and miniaturization of bombs that allowed it to shrink the size of weapons and make them even more powerful.
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The Stanford report said that while North Korea was likely to have continued work on warhead miniaturization and to ensure they can stand up to delivery via intercontinental ballistic missiles, the halt in testing greatly limited its ability to make such improvements.
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So this research appeared to be aimed at developing miniaturization technology, and Lewis also sees hints from North Korea's nuclear tests that it was trying to build a miniaturized device all along — suggesting the successful nuclear tests could have been bringing them much closer.
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But the same miniaturization that could allow bots to deploy bots in wartime or during some routine security patrol could give terrorists the perfect tool for mass mayhem, according to Stuart Russell, a professor of computer science and engineering at the University of California, Berkeley.
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Those advantages have now evaporated, and of all the new technologies that have emerged in recent decades, such as genomics or miniaturization, "the one thing that has the widest application to the widest number of D.O.D. missions is artificial intelligence and autonomy," Mr. Work said.
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Semi will eventually write a play about that plague called "The Spectators" — duBois makes it sound like an Off Broadway miniaturization of Tony Kushner's "Angels in America" — but for most of this novel, Semi is a writer's-blocked spectator peeping into Mattie's private life.
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North Korea has significantly improved its missile delivery systems, made progress in the miniaturization and yield of its nuclear warheads and accelerated the rate of its missile development since the Obama administration agreed to the increase of South Korea's missile range from 300km to 800km.
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Thousands of new satellites will be launched into space in the coming decade and many will use technology from Israel, which has built on its military expertise to capture a sizeable chunk of the growing commercial space market, particularly in the field of miniaturization.
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In last year's Defense White Paper, Japan said "miniaturizing a nuclear weapon small enough to be mounted on a ballistic missile requires a considerably high degree of technological capacity," and that "it is possible that North Korea has achieved the miniaturization of nuclear weapons and has developed nuclear warheads."
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Even if the DPRK has not fully worked out the kinks of their programs, they have achieved the foundations of long-range ballistic missile technology (though with poor accuracy), domestic fuel production, a nuclear capability with the goal of achieving thermonuclear proficiency, and potentially the means of warhead miniaturization.
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While some intelligence agencies suggested as early as 2013 that the North had learned enough about rocket engineering and the miniaturization of nuclear warheads to mount one on a shorter-range missile, there is a new consensus and greater confidence in that view in both Washington and Seoul, the officials said.
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Payne and Taylor spend a solid chunk of the film on the curious mechanics of the miniaturization industry, like the way nurses scoop up their anesthetized, freshly downsized clients with spatulas, or the "keepsakes" box that becomes a delivery truck, bringing the downsized their most important un-shrunk personal positions in their new community.
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A nice side effect of this miniaturization process was that it allowed Fitbit to fit a larger battery inside the device, which means you could hopefully expect about 7 days of usage from the Alta HR.Like the original Fitbit Alta, the Alta HR has a display that can show off calorie counts, steps walked, and now your heart rate.
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"Research-to-date reveals a clear potential in terms of safety, resistance to leakage, resistance to combustion, miniaturization, flexibility of design in terms of direct layer formation for cells, relative long discharge cycle lifespan, lack of degradation thanks to good high/low temperature properties, short charge times, high energy density, and high power," the analyst added.
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Expanded by side mirrors into passages to nowhere, these antiseptic veneers feel as haunted as the Gothic clutter of Levy's video, especially "Showers" (2018), a construction of gray walls and yellow and white tiles; it could be the shower room of a typical Y, but its miniaturization concentrates the array of light and shadow into an emptiness equal parts foreboding and forsaken.
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While iPads and iPhones are getting larger, the Apple Watch and AirPods are pushing the limits of miniaturization — something that is key when we start thinking about future wearables, where companies will pack tremendous amounts of technology — sensors, microprocessors, batteries and more —into extremely small objects and manufacturing them at scale is an incredibly important skill set to develop for the future.
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The North makes progress with each new nuclear test — it staged its fourth in January — but many experts say its arsenal may consist only of still-crude nuclear bombs; there's uncertainty about whether they've mastered the miniaturization process needed to mount bombs on warheads and widespread doubt about whether they have a reliable long-range missile that could deliver such a bomb to the U.S. mainland.
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While the process of miniaturization has advanced more slowly than the company may have expected, where the clearest failures have lied is in the cult of mystery and high expectations that Magic Leap CEO Rony Abovitz seems to have chased in order to inflate his company and his own premature illusions of grandeur, all of this before the company has anything to back that visionary status up with.
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