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Google and IEEE launch $1M challenge for downsized inverters

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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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Tesla’s FSD suite is impressive, but Aurora CEO says, ‘We were doing better in 2010’

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Urmson also was the head of Google’s self-driving project for almost eight years before leaving in 2016, but his work required him to build the code that powered Google’s autonomous software. It’s technically very impressive what they’ve done, but we were doing better in 2010.” Credit: Tesla).

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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., He is the youngest person to be an executive vice president at the company.

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IEEE’s Honor Society Expands to More Countries

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Global expansion resulted from the merger of North America–based HKN with IEEE in 2010. Among them are 23 former IEEE presidents as well as a who’s who of engineering leaders and technology pioneers including GM Chief Executive Mary Barra , Google founding CEO Larry Page , and Advanced Micro Devices CEO Lisa Su.

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X PRIZE Foundation Announces Wendy Schmidt Oil Cleanup X CHALLENGE

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Diamandis together with Wendy Schmidt, who personally funded the $1.4 Wendy Schmidt is president of The Schmidt Family Foundation, Founder of the Foundation’s 11 th Hour Project and Climate Central, as well as Co-founder, with her husband Eric (CEO of Google), of the Schmidt Marine Science Research Institute. million prize purse.

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Volkswagen outlines a range of near-term technologies for reducing fuel consumption and emissions; stop-start 2.0, 10-speed DSG

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Compared to baseline figures for 2010, the Group wants to reduce energy and water consumption, waste generation and emissions (including CO 2 emissions) by 25% in all of its business areas. It is also easy to find addresses by Google search and integrate them into navigation. Progress has also been made in the area of personalization.

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X PRIZE Foundation Aims to Launch $100M in Prizes Over Next 10 Years, Targeting 4 Key Areas

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Working with the US Department of Energy, X PRIZE will award $10 million in September 2010 to the teams that win a competition for clean, production-capable vehicles that exceed 100 MPG energy equivalent (MPGe). The current open prize in this area is the Google Lunar X PRIZE (GLXP). prosthetic eye, haptics).

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