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New $20M XPRIZE tackles conversion of CO2 into products

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Co-sponsored by NRG and COSIA (Canada’s Oil Sands Innovation Alliance), the 4-½ year competition will include two tracks, with the new technologies tested at either a coal power plant or a natural gas facility.

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Timnit Gebru Is Building a Slow AI Movement

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Timnit Gebru was a well-known scholar in the AI ethics community long before she got fired by Google in December 2020—but that messy and dramatic incident brought a new level of attention to her work. I don’t know if you know Mimi Onuoha —she’s an artist who made a similar point about how Google Maps completely ignores favelas in Brazil.

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Fact or Fiction: Electric Vehicle Charging in 2022

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With an output of up to 50 amps, the HQ 200 can connect to your wi-fi, and communicate with all your talkative home smart devices like Alexa, Google Home, or Siri. EV batteries are just as bad for the environment as gasoline. Ford is just one company coming out with a vast array of new EVs for those who crave something different. .

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Volkswagen Group invested €11.5B (US$12.9B) in R&D in 2014; ongoing focus on electromobility and digitalization of vehicles

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It may come as a surprise for you, but I highly welcome the interest of Apple, Google and others in the automobile. Because they make driving safer and more comfortable, because they conserve resources and protect the environment, and because they bring together the mobile and the digital worlds. Earlier post.). —Prof.

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Are You Still Using Real Data to Train Your AI?

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But some argue that the key to training AI systems that must work in messy real-world environments, such as self-driving cars and warehouse robots, is not, in fact, real-world data. What if I reconfigure my factory or make different decisions about how I manipulate things in my environment? That’s why people say data is the new oil.

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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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In addition, the newly announced manufacturing innovation institute topics now under competition include: Robotics in Manufacturing Environments Manufacturing Innovation Institute. quadrillion BTU of energy annually, equivalent to 280 million barrels of oil, or a month’s worth of that nation’s oil imports.

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GM to Make Use of Heat Pump Technology to Improve The Efficiency of Their EVs 

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We could simply cool the batteries and motors by some means (water, air or oil), and then use radiators to return the heat to the atmosphere. Battery preconditioning will be available either manually or automatically if a fast-charging destination is chosen in the GM Navigation app or in-vehicle Google Maps.

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