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Video Friday: $2.6 Billion

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This April, we’re making the legendary game playable on our robotic mowers as a tribute to 30 years of mowing down demons. NSF-supported researchers from New York University, using first-person video from a head-mounted camera, trained AI models to learn language through the eyes and ears of a child. [

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Physics Nobel Laureate Herbert Kroemer Dies at 95

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After graduating with a bachelor’s degree in electronics engineering, Gelnovatch earned a master’s degree in electrical engineering in 1967 from New York University , in New York City. As an undergraduate student at Monmouth University , in West Long Branch, N.J.,

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Pioneer of Google’s Data Centers Dies at 58

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After nine years at Penn State he moved to New York, where he was a research professor at the University of Buffalo until shortly before he died. He left Pittsburgh eight years later to teach at Pennsylvania State University in State College, where in 2001 he became director of its multivariate analysis center. air defense system.

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Tesla Taxi? Hybrid Cab Owner Customizes Electric Roadster

Green Car Reports

Anyone in the world who's ever seen a movie set in New York City can recognize a New York taxi. Probably not, but it's a tribute to the hacks of New York just the same. It's yellow with black graphics. So would you mistake this 2009 Tesla Roadster Sport for a taxi and hail it on the streets of Monaco?

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Taking the Long Way Home From Alaska

Baua Electric

Now license plates and tributes constructed of everything from flip-flops to a toilet seat compete with the signage. “We The gallery’s back stairway exhibits a collection of photos, letters and tributes called “The Road.” Lindley erected a sign with the mileage to his hometown, Danville, Ill.

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Celebrating the Life of Columbia Professor Stephen Unger

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From Bell Labs to Columbia Unger received his bachelor’s degree in electrical engineering in 1952 from the Polytechnic Institute of Brooklyn, New York, now the New York University Tandon School of Engineering. He was a Guggenheim Fellow as well as a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science.

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A Cheapskate in Monterey

Baua Electric

and Sunglass Hut replace “weedy lots and junk heaps,” though a central plaza with bronze sculptures of Steinbeck and some of his characters pays tribute to the past. Follow New York Times Travel on Instagram and sign up for our weekly Travel Dispatch newsletter to get expert tips on traveling smarter and inspiration for your next vacation.

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