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Google and IEEE launch $1M challenge for downsized inverters

Green Car Congress

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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7 Scholarships Exclusively for Women Studying Engineering

Cars That Think

WIE offers three grants. It awards US $2,500 to an IEEE student member who has completed two years of undergraduate study at an ABET-accredited school in the United States. Google is responsible for quite a few scholarships empowering women; this program is for students studying computer science in the United States and Canada.

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15 Graphs That Explain the State of AI in 2024

Cars That Think

Another chart in the report shows that most of that private investment in generative AI is happening in the United States. Companies release foundation models both to push the state-of-the-art forward and to give developers a foundation on which to build products and services. Google released the most in 2023.

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Meet Mr. Internet: Vint Cerf

Cars That Think

But extending it to handle multiple networks—whose reliability couldn’t be taken for granted—was a different story. 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. in Santa Monica, Calif.,

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This App Gauges Your Risk of COVID-19 Exposure in Public Places

Cars That Think

Cheng’s app uses Google Maps’ popular-times option , which shows how busy a place tends to be at specific times during the day. Albert Cheng The app was supported with a grant from Cheng’s university. I’d like to empower them,” he says, “with up-to-date information, all in one place.” Right now, the app cannot serve all cities.”

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Recharge IT

Plug In Partners

Google.org to to Accelerate Plug-In Hybrid and Vehicle-to-Grid Technology Google.org , the philanthropic arm of Google Inc. In addition, Google Inc. At today’s event, Google teamed with PG&E to demonstrate the bi-directional flow of electricity between plug-ins and the electric grid.

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How To Choose the Right EV Charging Equipment for Your Dealership

Blink Charging

Forecasts predict that over half of vehicle sales in the United States will be electric by 2030 thanks to US federal tax credits for EVs and EV charging equipment. Your business will be added to the Blink Network and popular map services like Google, helping your customers find EV charging stations nearby.