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Pioneer of Google’s Data Centers Dies at 58

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Luiz André Barroso Data center pioneer Senior member, 59; died 16 September An engineer at Google for more than 20 years, Barroso is credited with designing the company’s warehouse-size data centers. He left Compaq in 2001 to join Google in Mountain View, Calif., as a software engineer.

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The Engineer Behind Samsung’s Speech Recognition Software

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Every time you use your voice to generate a message on a Samsung Galaxy mobile phone or activate a Google Home device, you’re using tools Chanwoo Kim helped develop. Friends of his who were working on such projects at Google in Mountain View, Calif., Kim saw a role for his expertise in the endeavor—he has a Ph.D.

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OSU study finds varied impact of pandemic on public transit use across US

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Regression analyses reveal that communities with higher proportions of essential workers, vulnerable populations (African American, Hispanic, Female, and people over 45 years old), and more coronavirus Google searches tend to maintain higher levels of minimal demand during COVID-19. —Liu et al.

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Fraunhofer Car2X patent index shows surge in US automaker and IT company activity; Germany loses its leading position

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Statistics indicate that in 2013 and 2014, American automotive companies caught up in a big way, having registered the highest number of patent publications. What’s more, IT companies—and not just the giants such as Google—are muscling their way into the automotive segment by patenting products in the Car2X technology field.

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Virginia Tech report finds national crash rate for conventional vehicles higher than crash rate of self-driving cars

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A new report, “ Automated Vehicle Crash Rate Comparison Using Naturalistic Data ,” performed by the Virginia Tech Transportation Institute and commissioned by Google, shows that the crash rates for self-driving cars are lower than the national crash rate of conventional cars. Driving safety on public roads was examined in three ways.

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Tesla shares slide nearly 11% following Musk’s $44bn Twitter deal

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Other tech stocks, like Apple, Amazon, and Google, were also hit between 2 and 4.5 The company reported one of its strongest quarters in company history last week during its Q1 Earnings Call , beating consensus estimates for its financial statistics across the board. percent at just after 1:30 PM on the East Coast.

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Top Programming Languages Methodology

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In aggregating metrics, we hope to compensate for statistical quirks that might distort a language’s popularity score in any particular source of data. In aggregating across each data source, we hope to compensate for statistical quirks that might distort a language’s popularity score in any particular source of data.

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