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Volkswagen Group, Google partnering on quantum computing; traffic optimization, batteries, AI

Green Car Congress

The Volkswagen Group and Google will partner on research in the field of quantum computing. The two companies will explore the utilization of quantum computers together, with aims to build up specialist knowledge and to carry out practically oriented research. They will carry out this work using Google universal quantum computers.

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Google and IEEE launch $1M challenge for downsized inverters

Green Car Congress

Google and the IEEE have launched the Littlebox Challenge—an open competition to design and build a small kW-scale inverter with the highest power density (of at least 50 W/in 3 , or 3.05 Google and IEEE are emphasizing size reduction in their challenge, without targeting a specific application area such as automotive.

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How Skycharger Built Their Charging Network on the EV Connect Charging Business Platform

EV Connect

Skycharger, an ambitious and innovative branded EV charging network, has been making waves in the industry since its inception in 2013. By scaling revenue faster than session and kWh growth, which is a cost, Skycharger is building an efficient charging business that sets them up nicely for the next phase of growth.

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We Need to Decarbonize Software

Cars That Think

Green software engineering is an emerging discipline consisting of best practices to build applications that reduce carbon emissions. And software engineers have tremendous influence on the actual purpose and emissions of what they build. The green software movement is fast gaining momentum. What Is Green Software Engineering?

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An Engineer Who Keeps Meta’s AI infrastructure Humming

Cars That Think

Not only is Meta building some of the world’s first AI supercomputers, it is racing against other companies like Google and OpenAI to be the first to make breakthroughs. Following that with a stint as a network engineer at Amazon ’s facility in Dublin from 2011 to 2013, she then joined Meta and “the rest is history,” she says.

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Pioneer of Google’s Data Centers Dies at 58

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Luiz André Barroso Data center pioneer Senior member, 59; died 16 September An engineer at Google for more than 20 years, Barroso is credited with designing the company’s warehouse-size data centers. While there, he investigated how to build hardware to run more modern business applications and Web services. as a software engineer.

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Greenius Declaration of Human Rights

Creative Greenius

When I was a child, Wednesday was Incinerator Day, the day they burned the garbage we all threw down the garbage chute in the six story brick apartment building my family lived in (which was one of a dozen six story brick apartment buildings that were all part of the same Brooklyn complex we called home.).