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Documenting the EV battery material supply chain: Traceability challenges, Part One

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The term refers to a process for documenting the source of a product, along with all the links in the supply chain, and it has long been important in various industries. Charged spoke with Ken Fallu, OPTEL’s Global Head of Strategy for Mining and Environment. Q&A with OPTEL’s Ken Fallu. Ken Fallu: Yes, but it’s just starting.

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What If Europe Loses Russian Natural Gas?

Cars That Think

And the recent revelation of atrocities committed by the Russian military in Ukraine have renewed calls to boycott Russian gas, an action European countries are struggling to figure out how to implement. Powered by electricity, they can “pump” heat from the environment at a colder temperature into a building at a warmer temperature.

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IEEE Spectrum’s Top Telecom Stories of 2023

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On the one hand, stories about Russia’s satellite jamming operations in Ukraine and stumbling 5G performance around the world attracted a lot of attention from our visitors in 2023. Cerf recounted to IEEE Spectrum three of the mistakes he made while developing the Internet Protocol Suite (more commonly referred to as TCP/IP).

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GPT-4, AGI, and the Hunt for Superintelligence

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Intelligence, most broadly defined, is sort of the ability to behave in complex environments that have multitudes of different events occurring at a multitude of different time scales, and successfully learning and thriving in such environments. Because we don’t understand it. One way you get to intelligence, is human intelligence.

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We Need More Than Just Electric Vehicles

Cars That Think

The life cycle to which we refer has two parts: The vehicle cycle begins with mining the raw materials, refining them, turning them into components, and assembling them. International regulatory frameworks must therefore not only protect supply chains from disruption but also protect human rights and the environment.