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Google and IEEE launch $1M challenge for downsized inverters

Green Car Congress

Google and the IEEE have launched the Littlebox Challenge—an open competition to design and build a small kW-scale inverter with the highest power density (of at least 50 W/in 3 , or 3.05 Google and IEEE are emphasizing size reduction in their challenge, without targeting a specific application area such as automotive.

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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. Cool Planet has devised a biomass-to-liquids thermochemical conversion process that simultaneously produces liquid fuels and sequesterable biochar useful as a soil amendment. One of the catalytic conversion processes creates the high-octane gasoline blendstock.

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Finding The Wisest Ways To Global AI Regulation

Cars That Think

The heads of OpenAI and Google have both openly discussed the need for regulations. And that includes academia, which historically has had a very vibrant role in this field, but since 2014, what we’ve seen is this slow decline of academia in the space in comparison to where industry’s really taking off. Wald: Yeah.

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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. He was first named by a tipster who sent the FBI a Snapchat video filmed by someone, unpictured, inside the Capitol building. on 6 January.

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Can We Identify a Person From Their Voice?

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So Stillwell went inside Atwood’s and used his phone to record his conversation with Libby and another man, Duane Maki. Forensic speaker comparison is primarily investigative. The outcome nonetheless reflects practice: The use of forensic speaker comparison is primarily investigative. I heard it. In a 1994 ruling , U.S.

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Automakers agree on common plug to recharge electric vehicles

Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

I imagine there will be tax incentives to build green generators when were at that stage. By comparison, NOx emissions in Travis county from motor vehicles totaled approximately 30,000 tons per year in 1996 -- the last year for which complete data was available. (1, However, I dont welcome this news. excluding coal power in china.

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Extreme E – Greenland Glacier – Legacy Programme

My Energi

Let’s put things into perspective, the term ‘melting ice caps’ gets an average of 2400 google searches a month whilst ‘Greenland ice caps’ gets 90 searches per month. By comparison, popular TV shows ‘Love Island’ gets 201,000 searches per month and ‘Gogglebox’ 110,000 searches per month.