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A "Stanley" for the road: DARPA Grand Challenge hints to the future of driving
October 13, 2005 – 8:27 PM
Completely autonomous vehicles may be decades away, but Sven Strohnband, Volkwagen's lead engineer and project manager for Stanford's Grand Challenge project, says computerized driver-assistance is just around the corner.
DARPA Grand Challenge update #1: Qualification day 1 results
October 1, 2005 – 8:20 PM
acing hot temperatures, high winds and an occasional dust storm, the 43 DARPA Grand Challenge teams entered the qualification round at the Fontana Speedway. The first day seemed to resemble more a destruction derby than a race.
DARPA Urban Challenge to have multiple cash prizes
February 23, 2007 – 6:42 PM
The head of the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency, Dr. Tony Tether, says the Urban Challenge will have multiple cash prizes. Tether told Wired magazine that prizes from $500,000 to $2,000,000 will be given to the top teams that successfully complete the 60-mile urban course with robotic vehicles.
Gearing up for the DARPA Grand Challenge
October 1, 2005 – 8:07 PM
Today 43 autonomous vehicle teams entered the qualifying round of the DARPA Grand Challenge. In the next tension filled week, the driverless vehicles must steer though a 2.2 mile course at the Fontana Speedway filled with speed bumps, parked cars and tank traps.
Industry group to challenge Intel's AMT manageability tech, sort of
September 14, 2005 – 6:04 PM
As Intel continues to move from plain processors and chipsets to complete platforms with unique features - one of them being Active Management Technology (AMT) - competitors and partners are lining up support for an open standard manageability platform called ASF 2.0. Positioned as an option for AMT, network administrators should count on working with not one but two smart network management standards in the future.

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Innovate or perish: The challenge facing Apple's new Intel iMac and MacBook
January 10, 2006 – 9:15 PM
Today's announcement that Apple is releasing both desktop- and notebook-based Intel Macintoshes ahead of schedule, may have the market excited for now. But the excitement won't last, says IDC analyst David Daoud, if Apple isn't ready to start a course of rapid and drastic innovation, redefining what it means for a system to be a Macintosh.
DARPA Grand Challenge update #2: A chat with Team Mojavaton
October 1, 2005 – 8:44 PM
Not only is Team Mojavaton officially designated team #1 out of the 43 that made it to the qualification round, but they were also first to successfully complete the 2.2 mile route in the qualification round at the DARPA Grand Challenge. Tom's Hardware Guide chatted with Alan Peck, technical supervisor for the team about vehicle design and development.
The 2.5" vs. 3.5" RAID Challenge
April 21, 2005 – 1:03 PM
Four 2.5" Fujitsu SATA drives have to stand up to four speedy 3.5" models. Can the chunky little disk drives be an alternative in RAID configurations?
RDX QuikStor Hard Drive Solutions Challenge Tape Backup
November 14, 2006 – 12:57 PM
Tandberg's new RDX QuikStor backup solution uses hard drive technology in the form of backup cartridges, which the company claims is a superior alternative to existing tape backup solutions.
Money isn't everything to mastering the Grand Challenge
October 12, 2005 – 2:10 PM
With all the press focusing on Grand Challenge winner Stanford and the runner-up, Carnegie Mellon, it's easy to miss another finisher The Gray Team. Hailing from Metairie Louisiana, this small team with a small budget held their own against more heavily-funded teams.