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US and Russia sign agreement to further research and development collaboration in nuclear energy and security

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The signing took place on the margins of the International Atomic Energy Agency’s General Conference in Vienna, Austria. The United States and Russia are equal partners under the agreement, with each country bearing its own costs.

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The Case for Nuclear Cargo Ships

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At a July meeting of the International Maritime Organization , the U.N. How new reactor technology could change shipping The first step in making nuclear merchant ships a reality will be to build the right kind of nuclear reactors. We needed to get the conversation started.” Fourth-generation SMRs avoid all that.

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Worldwide Campaign for Neurorights Notches Its First Win

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Girardi says he hopes that Chile will be an example for the world and that other nations and international agencies will adopt comparable regulation. Indeed, 2022 may be the year that neurorights becomes a hot topic, bringing the young neurotech industry and the human rights community into uncomfortable conversations. Spain’s new.

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Weaponized Robots Letter Calls for Policy, Tech Fixes

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Yesterday, six companies that build or support sophisticated mobile robots (led by Boston Dynamics). We also call on every organization, developer, researcher, and user in the robotics community to make similar pledges not to build, authorize, support, or enable the attachment of weaponry to such robots.

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Why Rip Off Creatives, If Generative AI Can Play Fair?

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She spoke to Spectrum about starting with the data and whether Sony, with half its business in content creation, could play a role in building a new kind of generative AI. Did you try to build a dataset that felt ethical in all the dimensions? Are you working with internal teams who have been using these kinds of datasets?

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How the Huawei Fight is Changing the Face of 5G

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What's at stake is control of international 5G networks, which are expected to transform global communications. Huawei has said it would not comply with such a request and believes that it cannot be legally forced to do so. As a result, many companies around the world began building 5G networks using Huawei equipment.

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New Study Suggests Sustainability Principles for California Low Carbon Fuel Standard

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proposed by the Roundtable on Sustainable Biofuels (RSB), an international initiative involving stakeholders across the entire biofuel supply chain, nongovernmental organizations, experts, governments, and inter-governmental agencies. It also reviews the sustainability principles and criteria (Version 0.5) or Version 1.0

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