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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. in computer engineering in 1996 from the University of Southern California. He then moved to Los Angeles, where he earned a Ph.D.

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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. These are the health care workers, people working service jobs, working in grocery stores, people who clean and maintain buildings. —Liu et al. —Harvey Miller. 0242476.

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Ending an Ugly Chapter in Chip Design

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It pitted established male EDA experts against two young female Google computer scientists, and the underlying argument had already led to the firing of one Google researcher. While still at Google, Chatterjee’s team produced a paper titled “ Stronger Baselines ”, critical of the research published in Nature.

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How the Huawei Fight is Changing the Face of 5G

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By the mid-1990s, China was promoting it as a 'national champion' in the country's effort to build up industrial giants that could compete on the world stage. This allowed Chinese manufacturers to build 5G equipment for their vast domestic use and export it internationally. So the U.S.

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2021's Top Stories About AI

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So when DeepMind's head of robotics Raia Hadsell says she's tackling the long-standing AI problem of catastrophic forgetting in an attempt to build multi-talented and adaptable robots, people pay attention. Ng spoke about an AI system developed at Stanford University that could spot pneumonia in chest x-rays, even outperforming radiologists.

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Building a Zero Trust Security Model for Autonomous Systems

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The drone industry alone was estimated at US $100 billion in 2020, and autonomous systems are already driving significantly more value across other domains. This makes it practical to keep tabs on buildings as they are being built, track progress, and identify mistakes when they are cheaper to fix.

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GM planning to “own” the customer relationship beyond the vehicle; autonomous Volts, car sharing and fuel cells

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General Motors CEO Mary Barra and her leadership team outlined the company’s plans to capitalize on the future of personal mobility by owning the customer relationship beyond the vehicle, building upon nearly two decades of connectivity leadership. Let’s Drive NYC. In China earlier this year a fleet of EN-V 2.0 eBike Concept.

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