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Europe/US team: transitioning to a low-carbon world will create new rivalries, winners and losers

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In their commentary, Andreas Goldthau (Royal Holloway University of London), Kirsten Westphal (German Institute for International and Security Affairs (SWP)), Morgan Bazilian (Colorado School of Mines) & Michael Bradshaw (University of Warwick) present four geopolitical scenarios to illustrate how varied the transition could be by 2030.

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Powered By IEEE Program Saves Startups Money

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Running a startup isn't cheap. HARDWARE FOR COMPACT SYSTEMS IEEE Member Josh Elijah is the founder of BotBlox , in London. I saw a massive niche in the market that no one was filling, and I believe I am the right person to make products to fill that niche. Many founders bootstrap their company to survive.

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Is Worldcoin a Crypto-currency for the Masses or Your Digital ID?

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That’s because Worldcoin , the company behind the project, wants to create the most widely and evenly distributed cryptocurrency ever by giving every person on the planet the same small allocation of coins. What would happen if they gave every person on the planet an equal share of a new cryptocurrency? Bitcoin since they launched.

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The Turbulent Past and Uncertain Future of Artificial Intelligence

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The field of AI began at a 1956 workshop [top] attended by, from left, Oliver Selfridge, Nathaniel Rochester, Ray Solomonoff, Marvin Minsky, an unidentified person, workshop organizer John McCarthy, and Claude Shannon. Symbolists such as Herbert Simon [middle] and Allen Newell [bottom] wanted to teach AI rules about the world.

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A Quantum of Sensing—Atomic Scale Bolsters New Sensor Boom

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This means they can get placed much closer to a person's head, resulting in a signal at least two times better and theoretically up to five times better, for magnetic images with millimeter accuracy and millisecond resolution of surface areas of the brain, says Matthew Brookes , chairman of Cerca and a researcher at the University of Nottingham.

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Report from the REFF-Wall Street; Themes in Renewable Energy Finance

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The sponsor is the person who is responsible for the overall execution and has the greatest risk/reward. In general, the sponsor’s goal is to use as much cheap debt financing and as little equity as possible to complete the deal. The LIBOR is the London Inter-Bank Offered Rate and is an industry benchmark interest rate.

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Smart-grid project matches wind to electric cars | Green Tech - CNET News

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