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NASA to fly payload with SpinLaunch’s mass accelerator to test low-cost, high-cadence kinetic launch system

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After full review, NASA and SpinLaunch will publish all non-proprietary launch environment information from the test flight. What started as an innovative idea to make space more accessible has materialized into a technically mature and game-changing approach to launch.

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Meet Mr. Internet: Vint Cerf

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The two had been exchanging ideas in person and via email and reviewing the work of others who were trying to solve similar issues. The networks couldn’t be changed and couldn’t know that they were part of the Internet, because they already existed,” Cerf recalls recently in an interview at his office at Google, in Reston, Va.

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3 autonomous vehicle startups move into U-M incubator

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Mcity, operated by the U-M Mobility Transformation Center, is the first controlled environment specifically designed to test the potential of connected and automated vehicle technologies. In February 2016, CFE launched the pilot of TechLab with Zendrive, a Bay Area startup founded by Google and Facebook veterans.

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Open-Source AI Is Good for Us

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Congress and U.K. In this environment, open models play a vital role. Small developers won’t be able to comply with the premarket licensing and approval requirements that have been proposed in Congress, or the “one size fits all” evaluation, mitigation, and documentation requirements initially drafted by the European Parliament.

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Materials Project releases trove of data to public; support for work on multivalent battery chemistries and electrolytes

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The Materials Project, a Google-like database of material properties aimed at accelerating innovation ( earlier post ), has released an enormous trove of data to the public, giving scientists working on batteries, fuel cells, photovoltaics, thermoelectrics, and other advanced materials a powerful tool to explore new avenues of research.

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Ford, GM rolling out third-party developer programs for in-vehicle apps

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With more than three dozen AppLink-compatible apps publicly available on Apple iOS and Google Android, the SDK is now mature enough that Ford engineers are ready to let larger ecosystem of developers try it out. The new SDK will expand the environment so developers can work with the actual vehicle through the infotainment system.

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Finding The Wisest Ways To Global AI Regulation

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The heads of OpenAI and Google have both openly discussed the need for regulations. But yeah, just curious about your ideas about what would work in this way. I think Europe might need to look into as much as possible a degree of fostering an environment that will allow for that same level of innovation. Wald: Yeah. Wald: Yeah.

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