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SwRI-led team achieves 20% improvement in vehicle fuel efficiency with connectivity, automation; ARPA-E NEXTCAR

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Onboard sensing combined with data from vehicle-to-vehicle (V2V), vehicle-to-infrastructure (V2I) and vehicle-to-everything (V2X) technologies provided the information needed to predict driving environments and develop new technologies.

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Tesla Gigafactory Berlin approval delays push back production start to mid-March: rbb24

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Additionally, officials have not discussed plans for wastewater cleanup (via rbb24 , Google Translate): Tesla had repeatedly changed quantities of toxic chemicals that could leak in accidents. However, it sounded as if the Texas factory was closer to production than the Berlin plant.

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

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Advanced Flow Meter for Extreme Environments (AFMEE), $100,000 MicroNuclear LLC, Franklin, Tenn. Quanex Building Products Corporation, Houston, Texas SCP SYS LLC, San Francisco, Calif. Austin, Texas First Solar Inc., Arlington, Texas Environmental Insights Explorer for Buildings, $750,000 Google, Mountian View, Calif.

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Video Friday: Ingenuity’s 50th Flight

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DARPA’s Robotic Autonomy in Complex Environments with Resiliency (RACER) program recently conducted its third experiment to assess the performance of off-road unmanned vehicles. NASA’s Ingenuity Mars Helicopter made history when it achieved the first powered, controlled flight on another planet on April 19, 2021.

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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. If you’re in a place like Texas or Florida, that can be potential for reporting the student to child welfare services. Back to top.

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How Remote Sensing Technologies Increase Food Production

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The award is sponsored by Google. People were really interested in clean air and clean water, so I decided there would always be interest in the environment,” Crawford says. You study many areas in civil engineering, including structures, soils, transportation, and the environment,” she says.

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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. of Connecticut; Louisville; Massachusetts; Southern California; Tennessee Knoxville ; University of Texas (Austin; Rio Grande Valley); U.