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Volvo Cars in strategic partnership with Google to build Android into next generation connected cars

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Volvo Cars announced a “close” partnership with Google to develop the next generation of in-car infotainment and connectivity solution based on Android, offering access to a wide array of apps and services. We are making an important strategic step with the Google partnership. It will launch on new Volvo models within two years.

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Timnit Gebru Is Building a Slow AI Movement

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Timnit Gebru was a well-known scholar in the AI ethics community long before she got fired by Google in December 2020—but that messy and dramatic incident brought a new level of attention to her work. If we want to build technology that has meaningful community input, then we need to really think about what’s best. Timnit Gebru: Yes.

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We Need to Decarbonize Software

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Green software engineering is an emerging discipline consisting of best practices to build applications that reduce carbon emissions. And software engineers have tremendous influence on the actual purpose and emissions of what they build. The green software movement is fast gaining momentum. It’s not just lines of code.

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What’s the Tech Background of an Autonomous-Vehicle Engineer?

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Mohamed Elshenawy: In AI, we have machine-learning (ML) engineers that build the on-the-road decision-making modules. We also have the engineers that help build the tools for our continuous-learning machine. Our hardware engineers build our own EVs from the ground up, in partnership with GM and Honda.

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The Metaverse Could Help Us Better Understand Reality

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The word resurfaced a short time later in the product road maps of a hundred failed startups and is returning now as the plaything of Big Tech. Without them, we're flying blind, manipulating our environment on a global scale, but without proper understanding of the consequences.

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Video Friday: Robot Soccer Finals

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The European Robocup Finals 2022, featuring Tech United vs VDL Robotsports. Tech United ] Within the European Union project we aim to autonomously monitor habitats. Paper ] The compliance and conformability of soft robots provide inherent advantages when working around delicate objects or in unstructured environments.

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Competing Visions Underpin China’s Quantum Computer Race

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But there is a race within China itself among companies trying to dominate the space, led by tech giants Alibaba and Baidu. Alibaba is building solutions for specific kinds of hardware, as IBM, Google, and Honeywell are doing. Alibaba is building solutions for specific kinds of hardware, as IBM, Google, and Honeywell are doing.

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