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Finding Battery Minerals With AI

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And so we use copper to move electric power around the vehicle, to move electric power around the energy system in the transmission grid. But it is almost universally agreed that the supply gap across those four metals to get to a fully electrified vehicle fleet is more than $10 trillion worth of those metals.

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Xerox Parc’s Engineers on How They Invented the Future—and How Xerox Lost It

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Structured VLSI design, now taught in more than 100 universities. When the center opened in 1970, it was unlike other major industrial research laboratories; its work wasn’t tied, even loosely, to its corporate parent’s current product lines. Colorful weather maps on TV news programs. Laser printers. Pake, a longtime friend, to run it.

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