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urbanspace Partners with car2go Mobility Program

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car2go offers mobility to urbanspace clients who are moving to downtown Austin, one of the fastest growing urban areas in the country. Furthermore, car2go aims to significantly reduce Austin’s carbon footprint. Founded in 2000, urbanspace focuses on high-end residential, commercial and mixed-use spaces.

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Video Friday: Peep Handling

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Rover mission concepts recently suggested for the Moon would drive about 1500 to 2000 km in under 4 years, which requires significant advances in autonomy. Happy Peep Consumption Day! Soft Robotics ] Appropriate facial expressions for Ameca in this video are selected by GPT-3. Engineered Arts ] Kittens: the enemy of lazy robots everywhere.

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AMD’s Lisa Su Breaks Through the Silicon Ceiling

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In 2000 she was assigned to be the technical assistant for IBM's chief executive. One of the first places she got a chance to put her training into action was at Freescale Semiconductor , in Austin, Texas. She left in 2012 to join AMD, also in Austin, as senior vice president, overseeing the company's global business units.

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Satellite study shows drought-stricken Colorado River Basin states depleting their groundwater

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According to the US Bureau of Reclamation, the federal water management agency, the basin has been suffering from prolonged, severe drought since 2000 and has experienced the driest 14-year period in the last hundred years. This study is the first to quantify the amount that groundwater contributes to the water needs of western states.

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Will Robots Triumph over World Cup Winners by 2050?

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Standard Platform League Austin Villa , UT Austin’s RoboCup team, describing the RoboCup Standard Platform League in 2008. My own team, UT Austin Villa, started using hierarchical machine learning to develop skills such as walking and kicking in the Simulation League in 2014, which allowed us to dominate the competition.

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GISS study finds applying stricter non-CO2 vehicle emission standards worldwide would yield climate benefits in addition to major health and agricultural benefits

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Impacts of worldwide vehicle emissions in 2030 compared with 2000. Austin, Koch. Relative to no extra controls, the tight standards lead to annual benefits in 2030 and beyond of 120,000-280,000 avoided premature air pollution-related deaths; 6.1-19.7 million metric tons of avoided ozone-related yield losses of major food crops; $US0.6-2.4

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Univ. of Texas researchers propose lithium- or sodium-water batteries as next generation of high-capacity battery technology; applicable for EVs and grid storage

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More recently, at the University of Texas, Austin, Dr. Goodenough patented a new class of iron phosphate materials with potential to replace the more costly cobalt materials. In 2000, he received the prestigious Japan Prize for his discoveries of the materials critical to the development of lightweight rechargeable batteries.

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