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Lucid Motors chooses Mobileye as partner for autonomous vehicle technology

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Projection of the map data; on the right side the lanes are mapped onto Google Earth. The VMP is a VLIW SIMD processor, with cheap and flexible memory access, provides hardware support for operations common to computer vision applications and is well-suited to multi-core scenarios. The car is driving based on the map alone.

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Just Calm Down About GPT-4 Already

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Brooks, who is now working on his third robotics startup, Robust.AI , has written hundreds of articles and half a dozen books and was featured in the motion picture Fast, Cheap & Out of Control. The example I used at the time was, I think it was a Google program labeling an image of people playing Frisbee in the park. More context.

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Volvo XC40 Recharge and Polestar 2: EV cousins offer different takes on “premium”

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It’s called the XC40 Recharge, and the earliest versions aren’t cheap, priced from about $55,000 including delivery. Android running the dashboard means Google Assistant, Google Maps, Google Play Store, and more, are instantly available and work the way you already use them. Until now, it’s had no plug-in option.

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Europe Expands Virtual Borders To Thwart Migrants

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If it were legal to deliver rescued migrants to Libya, it would be as cheap as sending rescue boats a few extra kilometers south instead of east. By 2020, when Frontex had gained a more independent legal status as an agency of the European Union, its budget had more than tripled to €450 million and was scheduled to climb another 20.6

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IEEE Spectrum’s Top Telecom Stories of 2023

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Google Develops Quantum-Safe Security Keys GK Images/Alamy The looming advent of quantum computing has had cybersecurity researchers hunting for ways to make cryptographic systems that can withstand the new capabilities of such computers. A time interface that can naturally reverse signals would be much faster and less complex.

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Powered By IEEE Program Saves Startups Money

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Running a startup isn't cheap. BoxBlox's customers include Boeing , Google , and Tesla as well as NASA and NOAA. Rajanna developed an earlier version of the technology in collaboration with colleagues at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory , where he was a visiting researcher in 2019 and 2020.

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Report from the REFF-Wall Street; Themes in Renewable Energy Finance

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Auerbach adds that due to economies of scale and over capacity in the industry “ wind energy should have a 20% reduction in equipment costs within the next year ” and he has seen realistic projections of “ solar, with a 10% tax credit, being competitive with baseline generation in 2020 ”. Cap and Trade Disappointment.

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