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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 died unexpectedly of natural causes.

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U of Illinois study shows reduced speed limits save lives in busy cities with minimal impact on travel time

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A new study from University of Illinois shows that speed reductions in São Paulo, Brazil, significantly reduced fatal accidents and increased travel times only minimally. The researchers spent nine months developing software that allowed them to analyze trip durations using data from Google Directions API. The study included 1.4

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Video Friday: Ingenuity’s 50th Flight

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As at the previous events, teams from Carnegie Mellon University, NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory, and the University of Washington participated. Google AI ] Sanctuary AI is on a mission to create the world’s first human-like intelligence in general-purpose robots that will help us work more safely, efficiently, and sustainably.

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The Who, Where, and How of Regulating AI

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But China’s rule-makers have been moving the quickest to turn proposals into real rules, and countries including Brazil , Canada , and the United States are following behind. Meanwhile, Sundar Pichai , CEO of Google and its parent company, Alphabet, said recently that there will need to be “ global frameworks ” governing the use of AI.

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Video Friday: Squishable Bugbot

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IROS 2023 : 1–5 October 2023, DETROIT CLAWAR 2023 : 2–4 October 2023, FLORIANOPOLIS, BRAZIL ROSCon 2023 : 18–20 October 2023, NEW ORLEANS Humanoids 2023 : 12–14 December 2023, AUSTIN, TEXAS Cybathlon Challenges : 02 February 2024, ZURICH Enjoy today’s videos! Cyberbotics ] This is our smallest swimming crawling version (SAW design).

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Building a Zero Trust Security Model for Autonomous Systems

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One of the most promising approaches is CHERI (Capability Hardware Enhanced RISC Instructions), which is being explored by DARPA, Google, SRI International, and the University of Cambridge. We also need to explore new hardware capabilities and advanced software techniques to compartmentalize software stacks across multiple levels.

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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. Click to enlarge.

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