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Ending an Ugly Chapter in Chip Design

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The crux of the clash was whether Google’s AI solution to one of chip design’s thornier problems was really better than humans or state-of-the-art algorithms. It pitted established male EDA experts against two young female Google computer scientists, and the underlying argument had already led to the firing of one Google researcher.

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An Undersea Cable Could Fill In the Gaps on Fiber-Optic Maps

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Even as Google and Meta set their sights on building entirely new lines that will drastically boost the continent’s capacity, those lines hug well-trodden, predictable routes. There is one effort that hopes to do what Google and Meta won’t—SAEx, or the Southern Oceans Network. But it’s been slow to come.

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USDA provides $91M loan guarantee to Cool Planet for biogasoline blendstock plant; biomass pyrolysis and catalytic conversion

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Gas chromatography comparison of Conoco fuel and a Conoco-CoolPlanet blend. The output of these processing stations is connected to an array of catalysts. In addition to USDA’s contribution, Cool Planet has attracted private investments from numerous companies, including Google Ventures; BP; ConocoPhillips; GE; Exelon; and NRG Energy.

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First drive: US spec Audi A3 Sportback e-tron plug-in hybrid; 83-86 MPGe with 16-17 mile EV range

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We have a clutch that engages and connects the two, that gets the engine going. Once the oil pressure builds up to a sufficient level, we run the engine at zero load, at which point we disconnect the two again. Timer charging can also be programmed via a special menu in the MMI navigation plus or the new Audi connect e-tron services.

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How Police Exploited the Capitol Riot’s Digital Records

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One of these warrants, served on Google and covering the interior of the Capitol, showed that a device associated with the Gmail account in question entered the Senate Wing door at 2:18 p.m. Connecting that Gmail account to a phone number and then to its owner, Paul Lovley of Halethorpe, Md., on 6 January.

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The Global Project to Make a General Robotic Brain

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In 2023, our labs at Google and the University of California, Berkeley came together with 32 other robotics laboratories in North America, Europe, and Asia to undertake the RT-X project , with the goal of assembling data, resources, and code to make general-purpose robots a reality. We decided to give it a try.

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Why Bloat Is Still Software’s Biggest Vulnerability

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The way we build and ship software these days is mostly ridiculous, leading to apps using millions of lines of code to open a garage door, and other simple programs importing 1,600 external code libraries —dependencies—of unknown provenance. It is still worth reading today since we have gone quite mad collectively. We don’t even know.

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