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WiTricity extends recent funding for a total of $52M

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The new Advisory Board includes: Grant Covic, Professor of Engineering at the University of Auckland, New Zealand, where there are more than 40 Ph.D. As we ready for mass-market adoption, we’re excited to bring on a Board of Advisors who bring important insights and opportunities to WiTricity. —Alex Gruzen, WiTricity CEO.

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The Impact of Artificial Intelligence on the Business Landscape

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From effective spam filtering to the efficiency of services like Uber, AI’s impact is evident, with ongoing battles in data mining unfolding between industry giants like Amazon, Microsoft, and Google. The efficacy of AI algorithms extends far beyond traditional benchmarks, extending beyond merely beating humans in games.

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The Metaverse Could Help Us Better Understand Reality

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We're hearing that everyone will need access to the metaverse, that this virtual universe will be the place we'll all soon be working and playing. A fundamental power of virtual reality lies in its capacity to give us insight into processes either too large or too small to be directly observable.

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Video Friday: Robot Soccer Finals

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In association with universities, institutes and development companies, we are developing research platforms whose basic technical principles are based on nature. Geoff joins Pieter Abbeel in our two-part season finale for a wide-ranging discussion inspired by insights gleaned from Hinton’s journey from academia to Google Brain.

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Tomorrow’s AI Will Reason Like Humans, IBM Watson Developer Predicts

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for 33 years before he joined Rutgers University in New Brunswick, N.J., After graduating from high school at the top of his class, he earned a bachelor's degree in electrical engineering in 1975 from the University of Tehran , then a master's degree in EE from Imperial College London in 1976. as vice president for research.

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How Will EVs Change Convenience Stores and Truck Stops?

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In one survey of senior retail executives and consumers conducted by First Insight and the Baker Retailing Center at the University of Pennsylvania’s Wharton School, 72% of consumers said that a company’s sustainability initiatives were a “very or somewhat important purchase consideration.”

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How Will EVs Change Convenience Stores and Truck Stops?

Blink Charging

In one survey of senior retail executives and consumers conducted by First Insight and the Baker Retailing Center at the University of Pennsylvania’s Wharton School, 72% of consumers said that a company’s sustainability initiatives were a “very or somewhat important purchase consideration.”

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