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An Undersea Cable Could Fill In the Gaps on Fiber-Optic Maps

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Take Africa in particular: The continent is less a component of the cable network than an extension of it. Even as Google and Meta set their sights on building entirely new lines that will drastically boost the continent’s capacity, those lines hug well-trodden, predictable routes. The gaps aren’t completely empty.

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Ford to begin autonomous vehicle testing on California roads; Silicon Valley Lab accelerates Smart Mobility Plan

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The testing is further advancement of Ford’s 10-year autonomous vehicle development program and a key element of Ford Smart Mobility, the plan to take the company to the next level in connectivity, mobility, autonomous vehicles, the customer experience, and data and analytics. Click to enlarge. Click to enlarge.

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How the Huawei Fight is Changing the Face of 5G

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5G devices, meanwhile, can connect directly to each other through radio networks forming an " edge cloud " of their own. That's a problem for all governments connected to the network. "If Other countries are following suit, though Huawei still has a stronghold in Africa and Southeast Asia. So the U.S. So the U.S.

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Car Crash Prevention System Wins Student $10,000 IEEE Scholarship

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He came up with a mechanical barrier system that attaches to the hood and connects to the car's electronic control unit. Google Earth , she was able to gather and annotate more than 1,000 images of beaches in Africa, Australia, and North America. The city was an ideal place to tackle the project because of its beaches, she says.

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How Remote Sensing Technologies Increase Food Production

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The award is sponsored by Google. Her team’s research program included projects in Australia and Africa. IEEE: Staying connected to a community Crawford joined IEEE when she began her academic career and had to publish her research. An early environmental activist As a teen in the 1960s, Crawford was drawn to the U.S.

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Europe Expands Virtual Borders To Thwart Migrants

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In other words, European agencies are treating their direct contact with migrants as the problem, instead of treating the migrants’ precarious situations at sea or in North Africa as the problem. He eventually found work for someone Jacob describes as “connected to traffickers.”. What the tech is up against. For example, one E.U.-funded

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Bezos Bucks? Get Ready for Corporate Digital Currency

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With its efforts on Libra, Facebook drew a compelling picture of the plight of those excluded from banking—not only in sub-Saharan Africa but also in South Central Los Angeles and the South Side of Chicago. The owner of a FIL token is essentially buying a security connected to (and making a bet on) revenue in the data-storage market.