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Linking Chips With Light For Faster AI

Cars That Think

And recently, you wrote an article about the race to replace electricity with light inside computers, which is letting chips talk to each other with fiber optics rather than just using fiber optics to communicate between computers. Light, on the other hand, doesn’t work like that. So what’s going on? Cass: Okay, great.

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US and Canada Reach 1% of Vehicles on the Road Being BEVs and PHEVs

EV Adoption

See VIO definition at the end of the article.) EV Sales Share Versus Electric Vehicles in Operation Like basketball superstar Stephen Curry of the Golden State Warriors, EV sales share — the percentage of EVs sold in a year as a percentage of total light passenger vehicles gets all of the headlines and buzz.

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The Cheesy Charm of the Clapper

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This 1980s earworm of a jingle touted a gadget to turn your lights, your TV, or any other electrical device on or off with the clap of your hands. In 1985, Peter Liljequist and Kou Chen filed a Canadian patent for an acoustic switch for turning lights and other appliances on and off. The Clapper!” 5,493,618 ) is a chatty marvel. “In

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14 Things to Include in Your Truck Maintenance Schedule

Clean Fleet Report

This Will Help Keep Your Truck on the Road This article may contain affiliate links. Keeping things clean can take some elbow grease, but it will pay off Get the Oil Changed Getting your truck’s oil changed regularly should definitely be on your to-do list. Truck ownership can be a lot of fun. Some people love these vehicles.

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This 1920 Chess Automaton Was Wired to Win

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In 1914, Torres Quevedo laid out his ideas in the article, “Ensayos sobre automática. Its Definition. In the article, he updated Charles Babbage’s ideas for the analytical engine with the currency of the day: electricity. Torres Quevedo wanted to reframe what we mean by thinking. Si definición.

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“Charging Station” — Is That the Location or the “Charger”?

EV Adoption

Below is a simple and typical example of the confusing and inconsistent use of the term “charging station” from a news article shared on Twitter. To attempt to shine a light on this confusion and inconsistent usage, I conducted a simple and very unscientific poll on Twitter. Charging Station Twitter Poll.

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NanoXplore acquires assets of XG Sciences; silicon-graphene anode materials

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a leading graphene company, announced that it was the winning bidder for a significant portion of the assets of XG Sciences Inc, a developer of silicon-graphene anode materials ( earlier post ), in a sale conducted by XG’s senior secured creditor pursuant to Article 9 of Michigan’s enactment of the Uniform Commercial Code. NanoXplore Inc.,