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Renault in advanced talks with partners to recycle batteries, says executive – ET Auto

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. “In Europe, there is currently… nobody who can claim to recycle used batteries in a closed-loop to reproduce nickel, cobalt and lithium to make new batteries,” said Jean-Philippe Bahuaud, chief executive of ‘ The Future Is Neutral ‘ (TFIN), Renault’s environment unit.

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Toyota Research Institute developing blended envelope control for Guardian driver assistance

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Chauffeur development focuses on full autonomy, in which the human is essentially removed from the driving equation, either completely in all environments, or within a restricted operational design domain (ODD). TRI is following a two-track development approach to automated driving. We believe the answer is yes.”.

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Exploding Chips, Meta's AR Hardware, and More

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Cass: Sam, you recently attended the Big Kahuna Conference of the semiconductor research world, ISSCC. Moore: Well, besides being a difficult-to-say acronym, it actually stands for the IEEE International Solid State Circuits Conference. So there is another conference for inventing new kinds of transistors and other sorts of devices.

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Andrew Ng: Unbiggen AI

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He pioneered the use of graphics processing units (GPUs) to train deep learning models in the late 2000s with his students at Stanford University , cofounded Google Brain in 2011, and then served for three years as chief scientist for Baidu , where he helped build the Chinese tech giant’s AI group. Ng: I think there is a scalability problem.

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Drones That Can Fly Better Than You Can

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His lab is best known for developing extremely agile drones that can autonomously navigate through complex environments at very high speeds. Our basic goal is to build in the skills of an expert pilot into the drone itself, which involves a little bit of hardware. Faster, it turns out, than even the best human drone racing champions.

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AI’s 6 Worst-Case Scenarios

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Since AI-enabled systems confer greater speed benefits on its users, the first countries to develop military applications will gain a strategic advantage. With every digital action, we produce new data—emails, texts, downloads, purchases, posts, selfies, and GPS locations. A Dangerous Race to the Bottom.

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The Tremendous VR and CG Systems—of the 1960s

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The interview transcripts can be downloaded here and here. www.youtube.com As an undergraduate engineering student at Carnegie Tech (today’s Carnegie Mellon University), and then as a graduate student at Caltech (before he moved to MIT after one year), Sutherland continued to design and build more advanced light-seeking robots.

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