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GE VC Firms Announce $200M Open Innovation Challenge to Accelerate Power Grid Technology Through Open Collaboration

Green Car Congress

The global challenge invites technologists, entrepreneurs and start-ups to share their best ideas and come together to build the next-generation power grid to meet the needs of the 21 st century. Proposals are sought in three, broad categories: Renewables, Grid and Eco Homes/Eco Buildings.

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One Way to Stop the Social Spread of Disinformation

Cars That Think

When you encourage people to spread falsities to get advertising and make money, then this thing kind of builds on itself. An article describing how the platform works was published in the September issue of IEEE Communications Magazine. “If There he helped build Wi-Fi access points with a 2-kilometer range. Wireless innovator.

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Solar Smackdown in Torrance – Installer Sues City on Behalf of the Sun

Creative Greenius

Its wholly interpretive guidelines can be used to approve or disapprove a building, addition or remodel completely on subjective principles. I went down to the Building Dept and they said, “It will be two weeks before we get back to you.” And then the senior gentlemen in the building with the Safety Dept. What happened?”.

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Inventing Postscript, the Tech That Took the Pain out of Printing

Cars That Think

by-9 meter) screens displaying a computer-generated representation of New York Harbor, complete with buildings, piers, movable buoys, changing weather conditions, and other ships to be avoided. Only when the simulator hardware was ready would they build a compiler to translate the database into the appropriate machine language.

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The Soviet-Era, Z80-based Galaksija Dared to Be Different

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Complete plans for the Galaksija were first published in 1983 in an article in the computer magazine Računari u vašoj kući as a joint venture between the Galaksija’s designer, Voja Antonić , and the magazine’s editor, Dejan Ristanović. (An An English translation of the article was published by No Starch Press in 2018 in PoC||GTFO Vol.

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A Small Startup Fights Rare Diseases With Big Data

Cars That Think

Steven Cherry: One of your company's slogans, at least on Twitter and you alluded to this before, is "Build the haystack, find the needle.". And at Vyasa, we're excited about the applications of these technologies in the life sciences and health care space, but also in other verticals like legal, like fintech, like manufacturing.

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Finding The Wisest Ways To Global AI Regulation

Cars That Think

Before we launch into this episode, I’d like to let listeners know that the cost of membership in the IEEE is currently 50 percent off for the rest of the year, giving you access to perks, including Spectrum Magazine and lots of education and career resources. So go to IEEE.org/join to get started. Wald: Absolutely. What would you do?”

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