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Hey Google! Lets Reinvent Detroit Together Using Our Creative Greenius Before The Opportunivors Scavenge It

Creative Greenius

No this is a job for the company I’ve long been a stockholder of – Google. Because Google is smart enough to not only see the opportunity and have the wherewithal to seize it, they also know what to do with it. Google dudes, you have my gmail address. Communications. Climate change adaptation and Sustainability.

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Google and IEEE launch $1M challenge for downsized inverters

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Google and the IEEE have launched the Littlebox Challenge—an open competition to design and build a small kW-scale inverter with the highest power density (of at least 50 W/in 3 , or 3.05 Google and IEEE are emphasizing size reduction in their challenge, without targeting a specific application area such as automotive.

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Tesla Chair urges Australia to ignite tech startup revolution for economic growth

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At a business forum in Brisbane on Wednesday, Tesla Chair Robyn Denholm highlighted that Australia could not rely on its natural resources indefinitely. Thus, if Australia could change its laws to properly support and foster a startup-friendly environment, businesses could thrive in the country.

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Volkswagen progressing with work on quantum computing, develops traffic management system for taxi companies

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In the field of quantum computing, the Volkswagen Group is cooperating with technology partners D-Wave and Google, who provide the Volkswagen experts with access to their systems. D-Wave Leap Quantum Application Environment. Wave Leap Quantum Application Environment (QAE).

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We Need to Decarbonize Software

Cars That Think

Companies like Salesforce have launched their own software sustainability initiatives , while the Green Software Foundation now comprises 64 member organizations, including tech giants Google , Intel , and Microsoft. Now, the Green Web Foundation is working toward the ambitious goal of a fossil-free Internet by 2030.

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Years Later, Alphabet’s Everyday Robots Have Made Some Progress

Cars That Think

Last week, Google or Alphabet or X or whatever you want to call it announced that its Everyday Robots team has grown enough and made enough progress that it's time for it to become its own thing, now called, you guessed it, "Everyday Robots." But this doesn't seem fair to me, especially for a company that Google used to own.

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Study using satellite data finds rate of urban growth much greater than previously thought

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The researchers used Landsat imagery to map annual changes in urban extent at a 30 m resolution for the period 1985 to 2015 on the Google Earth Engine (GEE) platform. —Liu et al. Finally, they assessed the accuracy of all derived products over the past three decades. Huang, Y., Nat Sustain doi: 10.1038/s41893-020-0521-x.