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With this Ruby Laser, George Porter Sped up Photochemistry

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In 1954 he left Cambridge to become assistant director of the British Rayon Research Association, but he soon realized he was better suited to academia than industry. In a series of provocative newspaper articles and a 1959 lecture at Cambridge entitled “ The Two Cultures ,” the novelist and physical chemist C.P. www.youtube.com.

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Rule of the Robots: Warning Signs

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In November of that year, a front-page New York Times article was instrumental in bringing awareness of deep learning technology to the broader public sphere. The article, written by reporter John Markoff, ends with a quote from Geoff Hinton: "The point about this approach is that it scales beautifully. Copyright 2021 Basic Books.

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Practical Power Beaming Gets Real

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To underscore how safe the system was, the host of the BBC science program “ Bang Goes the Theory ” stuck his face fully into a power beam. One of our industry partners, PowerLight Technologies , formerly known as LaserMotive, has been developing laser-based power-beaming systems for more than a decade. Lighthouse Dev in 2012.

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Devil in the Details: World Leaders Scramble To Salvage and Shape Copenhagens UNFCCC Climate Summit

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At issue is the 2012 expiration of the Kyoto Protocol, a binding but effectively unenforceable 1997 treaty that had set greenhouse gas (GHG) emission reduction targets for 40 industrialized countries, referred to as Annex 1 countries, yielding an average GHG reduction of 5.2% ” [ 1 ].

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Electric-Car Fans Rally Around the Volt - Green Inc. Blog - NYTimes.com

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Advocacy groups argue the task force’s assessment is shortsighted and worry that the Volt project may land in the scrap heap as G.M. “Any new technology like the Chevy Volt takes time to become profitable,&# said Jay Friedland, the legislative director for Plug-In America , an electric-car advocacy group. rolls toward bankruptcy.

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Electric Cars and a Smarter Grid - Green Inc. Blog - NYTimes.com

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“Vehicle-to-grid is, I believe, the salvation of the automotive industry in the United States,” declared Marc Spitzer, an agency commissioner who was also on the panel. “It’s a very new way of doing things,&# said Gerard Magnin of Energie-Cites, a group of green local authorities.

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Content Credentials Will Fight Deepfakes in the 2024 Elections

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This article is part of our special report Top Tech 2024. The C2PA group brings together the Adobe-led Content Authenticity Initiative and a media provenance effort called Project Origin ; in 2021 it released its initial standards for attaching cryptographically secure metadata to image and video files. And the U.S.

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