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CEO Mary Barra & General Motors Make Sure The Greenius Is Rewarded For His Many Years Of EV Advocacy

Creative Greenius

That’s me on January 16, 2017, with my brand new Chevy Bolt EV Premier edition in my garage at home. Last week, as part of the little known and unadvertised “Bolt Buyback” program GM quietly created in response to the recall of all their 2017- 2019 Bolts, Chevy paid $37,900 to buy this car back from us.

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Why Governments’ Involvement in Standards Development is Crucial

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Receiving input and guidance on aspects of the broader standardization ecosystem, such as conformity assessment and certification , technical alliance management , and industry connections. Since the program launched in 2017, more than 57 governmental bodies from 35 countries have joined.

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Meta Aims to Build the World’s Fastest AI Supercomputer

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By the middle of this year, when an expansion of the system is complete, it will be the fastest, Meta researchers Kevin Lee and Shubho Sengupta write in a blog post today. The old system connected 22,000 Nvidia V100 Tensor Core GPUs. The number of parameters in neural network models have been rapidly growing.

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Genesis Recalls 90K Vehicles for Fire Risk

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Trouble apparently stems from wiring connected to the car’s starter solenoid, a piece of technology with which most of us old-timers in the audience will be familiar thanks to janky wiring on hoopties from the ‘70s and ‘80s. Maybe that’s just me and a few box-body Crown Vics, then.

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Building Better Qubits

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“We had one year to scale organic LEDs to make a 20-inch display in three different colors with pixel sizes of 100 micrometers by 300 micrometers,” Riel said in a 2021 interview for IBM’s Research blog. In 2017 IBM released a new transistor—the Nanosheet—that uses the concepts Riel says she and her team developed between 2005 and 2012.

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Remembering Roberto Saracco, President of EIT Digital

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In 2017 and 2018 he served as head of EIT’s Industrial Doctoral School , headquartered in Palaiseau, France. Saracco also published a daily blog on the IEEE Future Directions website, where he mused on the latest technological developments and their impact on humanity. He held this position until his death.

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The Spectacular Collapse of CryptoKitties, the First Big Blockchain Game

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Launched on 28 November 2017 after a five-day closed beta, CryptoKitties skyrocketed in popularity on an alluring tagline: the world’s first Ethereum game. “As dozens of new blockchain games based on the cryptocurrency through late 2017 and 2018. game’s blog (4 June 2021), which celebrates the breeding of the 2 millionth CryptoKitty.

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