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Google Unveils Faster, Cheaper Mechanism To Track Worldwide Deforestation Online; Support for Land Use Change Measurement, Verification and Reporting

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Progressive deforestation in Rondonia, Brazil as seen in. Landsat images via Google Earth. Through its philanthropic arm, Google.org, Google introduced an online suite of beta software that leverages cloud computing to track worldwide land-use changes such as deforestation. deforestation in Rondonia, Brazil.

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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. He left Compaq in 2001 to join Google in Mountain View, Calif., He died unexpectedly of natural causes. as a software engineer.

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Video Friday: Ingenuity’s 50th Flight

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This demonstrates how the fully-soft rotary electromagnetic actuator can bridge the gap between the capabilities of traditional hard motors and novel soft actuator concepts. NASA’s Ingenuity Mars Helicopter made history when it achieved the first powered, controlled flight on another planet on April 19, 2021.

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Audi going to the moon; Audi lunar e-quattro rover

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Audi is supporting the German team (the “ Part-Time Scientists ”) in the Google Lunar XPRIZE (GLXP) competition with its know-how in several fields of technology from quattro all-wheel drive and lightweight construction to electric mobility and piloted driving. The concept of a privately financed mission to the moon is fascinating.

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Building a Zero Trust Security Model for Autonomous Systems

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The fundamental concept at the heart of the Zero Trust security model is to never trust and always verify the provenance of each request. The fundamental concept is to never trust and always verify the provenance of each request. The Zero Trust Security Paradigm. Other researchers have explored drone cloud control mechanisms.

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