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Musk-led xAI raises $6 billion in Series B funding

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Tesla again urges investors to vote in favor of Musk pay plan, Texas move Last month, xAI unveiled its Grok 1.5V ” “The funds from the round will be used to take xAI’s first products to market, build advanced infrastructure, and accelerate the research and development of future technologies,” xAI adds.

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Researchers say cubic boron arsenide best semiconductor material yet found

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Now, a team of researchers at MIT, the University of Houston, and other institutions have shown that cubic boron arsenide overcomes these two limitations of silicon as a semiconductor material. So, if you build a device, you want to have a material where both electrons and holes travel with less resistance. —Gang Chen.

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

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A study by researchers at The Ohio State University suggests that the COVID-19 pandemic had varying effects on demand for public transit in US cities. Fitted curve and key parameters for an example public transit agency (Capital Metro in Austin, Texas). We need to build our public transit systems to serve these people.

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Kicking It With Robots

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They exuded the kind of joy that comes with working together to build cool stuff, and it was infectious. You can check out this year’s RoboCup competitions going on 6–9 July at the University of Bordeaux, in Nouvelle-Aquitaine, France. By 2022 it was clear that the site, whose basic design had not changed in years, needed a reboot.

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IEEE Society Restores Electricity To a Nepali School

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The effect that access to reliable electricity has had on the village is amazing,” says Morgan Kiani , an engineering professor at Texas Christian University , in Fort Worth. Kiani traveled in 2018 to Cairns, Australia, for the IEEE International Symposium on Industrial Electronics.

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Obama Administration launches series of actions to accelerate EV adoption; inc. $4.5B in loan guarantees, pursuing 350 kW fast charge

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35 new businesses, non-profits, universities, and utilities signing on to DOE’s Workplace Charging Challenge and committing to provide electric vehicle charging access for their workforce. Binghamton University (State University of New York). Binghamton University (State University of New York). Tesla Motors, Inc.

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Daimler Trucks NA SuperTruck achieves 115% freight efficiency improvement over 2009 baseline; 50.2% engine BTE

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To measure freight efficiency, DTNA ran vehicle testing on highway routes in Oregon and Texas; one city route in Portland, Ore.; These exhaust gases pass through a boiler which transfers heat to the working fluid, which vaporizes to high-temperature steam and builds up pressure. engine brake thermal efficiency. mpg (19.26

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