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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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Polestar 7 to replace Polestar 2 in EV line-up to avoid Volkswagen Golf-like fate

Baua Electric

The Polestar 2 was the first to feature an Android Automotive OS-powered infotainment with built-in Google. As much as we might build a very similar car, because it has a different number, we won’t have this natural trap where we’re boxed into that concept of what the car had been,” Ingenlath explained.

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Ending an Ugly Chapter in Chip Design

Cars That Think

The crux of the clash was whether Google’s AI solution to one of chip design’s thornier problems was really better than humans or state-of-the-art algorithms. It pitted established male EDA experts against two young female Google computer scientists, and the underlying argument had already led to the firing of one Google researcher.

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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.).

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15 Graphs That Explain the State of AI in 2024

Cars That Think

Google is dominating the foundation model race Foundation models are big multipurpose models—for example, OpenAI’s GPT-3 and GPT-4 are the foundation model that enable ChatGPT users to write code or Shakespearean sonnets. Google released the most in 2023.

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

Cars That Think

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. There is one effort that hopes to do what Google and Meta won’t—SAEx, or the Southern Oceans Network. But it’s been slow to come.

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USDA provides $91M loan guarantee to Cool Planet for biogasoline blendstock plant; biomass pyrolysis and catalytic conversion

Green Car Congress

Gas chromatography comparison of Conoco fuel and a Conoco-CoolPlanet blend. In addition to USDA’s contribution, Cool Planet has attracted private investments from numerous companies, including Google Ventures; BP; ConocoPhillips; GE; Exelon; and NRG Energy. Cool Planet’s biogasoline blendstock is 100% compatible with pump gasoline.