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The Rise and Fall of 3M’s Floppy Disk

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BASF, a German chemical manufacturer, has a somewhat similar corporate history and logo design to fellow thick-Helvetica enthusiast 3M. Its former corporate parent 3M, meanwhile, has a market cap of $51.33 Before World War II, one company did attempt to manufacture a tape recorder in the U.S. billion at the time of this writing.

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DOE awarding >$24M to 77 projects through Technology Commercialization Fund

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Quanex Building Products Corporation, Houston, Texas SCP SYS LLC, San Francisco, Calif. Arlington, Texas Environmental Insights Explorer for Buildings, $750,000 Google, Mountian View, Calif. Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, Ga. Louis , Mo. San Jose, Calif. Sunrun, San Francisco, Calif. Vitriflex Inc., San Jose, Calif.

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What Robotics Experts Think of Tesla’s Optimus Robot

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Georgia Chalvatzaki. In short, I’d bet that any decent university or corporate robotics lab with a similar budget and an active PR team would be able to pull this off. Roboticist, Google Brain. Click the link under each section to jump back up to the list of experts. Assistant Professor, Technische Universität Darmstadt.

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LA-based SMLC to lead new DOE Smart Manufacturing Innovation Institute; ~$800M for 5 new hub competitions

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Georgia Institute of Technology; Idaho National Laboratory; Jet Propulsion National Laboratory; Lamar U.; LanzaTech; Materia; SEVA; TowerJazz; Small: Able Industrial Products Inc.; VRCO; and many more small and medium-sized manufacturers. LanzaTech; Materia; SEVA; TowerJazz; Small: Able Industrial Products Inc.; Missouri U. Purdue U.

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Building a Zero Trust Security Model for Autonomous Systems

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Hackers took control of a car’s OEM corporate network by reverse engineering a car’s transmission control unit to infiltrate the network. One of the most promising approaches is CHERI (Capability Hardware Enhanced RISC Instructions), which is being explored by DARPA, Google, SRI International, and the University of Cambridge.

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IEEE Celebrates Engineering Brilliance

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KAHN Corporation for National Research Initiatives Reston, Va. IEEE MILDRED DRESSELHAUS MEDAL Sponsor: Google CLAIRE J. IEEE CORPORATE INNOVATION AWARD Sponsor: IEEE ADVANCED MICRO DEVICES Austin, Texas “For leadership in development and deployment of chiplet architecture designs for high-performance and adaptive computing.”

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