Self-driving cars a reality for consumers in 5 years

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	Self-driving cars a reality for 'ordinary people' within 5 years, says Google's Sergey Brin Google is known for setting ambitious targets for itself, and it's apparently making no exception for self-driving cars. Such "autonomous vehicles" will be a reality for "ordinary people" in less than five years, Google CEO Sergey Brin said on Tuesday. Read More WHITE PAPER: HP & Intel Strategic Guide to Converged Infrastructure In this exclusive Computerworld Strategic Guide you'll benefit from the experience of IT managers who have implemented infrastructure convergence in their own data centers, including those who have used this new architecture as a platform for next-generation initiatives through case studies and articles. Read Now! In this Issue Jonny Evans: iPhone, Siri and mind control: the future evolution of the smartphone Wind energy beat iPod in U.S. job creation WD releases 4TB enterprise drives, again NASA says Curiosity rover finds evidence of water on Mars Intel pitches its "Clover Trail" Atom processor at launch event DARPA begins testing robotic mule for battlefields Video: Toyota's Smart INSECT concept car Artist's project to blast gold-plated artifact disc into orbit Jonny Evans: iPhone, Siri and mind control: the future evolution of the smartphone It would be foolish to underestimate the importance of Apple's iPhone 5's Siri or any other voice-activated intelligent assistant. These solutions are big steps toward new user interfaces: one day your iPhone may be controlled by your mind. Read More Wind energy beat iPod in U.S. job creation As many as half of wind energy jobs -- mostly in the U.S. -- may disappear if a tax credit is allowed to expire at year-end, say industry reports. Read More WD releases 4TB enterprise drives, again Western Digital today announced it is selling 7200RPM, 4TB hard drives, just as it announced in the spring. The difference? In the spring it rolled out 4TB drives from its HGST subsidiary. Read More NASA says Curiosity rover finds evidence of water on Mars Less than two months into its mission, NASA scientist say the Curiosity rover has found evidence of a "vigorous" thousand-year water flow on the surface of Mars. Read More Intel pitches its "Clover Trail" Atom processor at launch event PC makers and Intel came together to showcase new tablets with the Intel Atom chip inside, in San Francisco. Read More DARPA begins testing robotic mule for battlefields It looks like a bull, trots at the speed of a wolf and carries equipment like a pack mule, but does it have a place on the battlefield of the future? Researchers are conducting a two-year study of a robot that promises to lighten the load that soldiers must carry and they gave it a high-profile demonstration in September. Read More Video: Toyota's Smart INSECT concept car Toyota's latest concept car, called the Smart INSECT, works as a giant accessory for your cell phone, connecting to all sorts of services once its owner places their phone on a dashboard pad. Read More Artist's project to blast gold-plated artifact disc into orbit The Last Pictures project is scheduled to blast off this fall, sending a communications satellite into space with a gold-plated, photo-filled disc attached to it that is meant to be a cultural artifact for aliens to find. Read More
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