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Ending an Ugly Chapter in Chip Design

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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. While still at Google, Chatterjee’s team produced a paper titled “ Stronger Baselines ”, critical of the research published in Nature.

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Univ of Utah studies find up to 27 seconds of mental distraction for drivers after using new hands-free technologies

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Potentially unsafe mental distractions for drivers can persist for as long as 27 seconds after dialing, changing music or sending a text using voice commands, according to a pair of new studies for the AAA Foundation for Traffic Safety by University of Utah researchers. Google Now rated highly distracting (3.0,

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ORNL researchers use stop-light cameras to reduce fuel consumption of less-efficient vehicles via traffic management

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Karnowski recalled a vehicle-image project by Stanford University researcher Timnit Gebru that identified 22 million cars from Google Street View images, classifying them into more than 2,600 categories (such as make and model) and then correlating them with demographic data. So, where to find a larger, fine-grained vehicle dataset?

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Researchers use Google Street View cars for high-resolution air pollution mapping

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Engineering researchers at The University of Texas at Austin and colleagues have. The study included co-authors from the University of Washington, University of British Columbia, Utrecht University, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Aclima and EDF. —Kyle Messier, a UT Austin postdoc and a co-author.

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AI Poised to Transform Video Compression Landscape

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In one comparison , WaveOne reconstructions of images were five to 10 times more likely to be chosen over conventional codecs by a group of independent users. WaveOne has shown success in neural network compression of still images. WaveOne will likely continue working on full neural video compression under Apple’s aegis.

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Drones That Can Fly Better Than You Can

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Foundation for Skydio’s drones can be traced back to Adam’s work on autonomous agile drones at MIT , and after spending a few years at Google working on Project Wing’s delivery drones , Adam cofounded Skydio in 2014. Davide Scaramuzza directs the Robotics and Perception group at the University of Zürich. Bry: Yeah.

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How Police Exploited the Capitol Riot’s Digital Records

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One of these warrants, served on Google and covering the interior of the Capitol, showed that a device associated with the Gmail account in question entered the Senate Wing door at 2:18 p.m. Far more accurate are the geolocation data gathered by Google Maps and other apps, on both Android and Apple devices. on 6 January.

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