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General Fusion and UK Atomic Energy Authority (UKAEA) announce collaborative agreement to advance commercial fusion energy

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General Fusion and the UK Atomic Energy Authority (UKAEA) kicked off projects to advance the commercialization of magnetized target fusion energy as part of a collaborative agreement. The results will hone the design of General Fusion’s demonstration machine being built at the Culham Campus, part of the UK fusion cluster.

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Explosive Power Beats Even Moore’s Law

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times as tall , from the Singer Building (187 meters) to the Petronas Towers (452 meters). But there is one accomplishment that, unfortunately, has seen even higher gains since 1945: the destructive power of explosives. The increase in explosive power, over 16 years, matches what Moore’s Law has accomplished in the 50 years since 1970.

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NVIDIA DRIVE PX 2 platform to power world’s first robotic motor sports competition

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DRIVE PX 2—which delivers processing power equivalent to 150 MacBook Pros—uses two next-generation Tegra processors plus two next-generation discrete GPUs, based on the Pascal architecture ( earlier post ), to deliver up to 24 trillion deep learning operations per second. It’s a contest to build the most advanced artificial mind.

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UK wants to ban 100% ICE power by 2030

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Under Boris’s new Green plan, the sale of new combustion engine vehicles, that are powered wholly by Petrol or Diesel will be banned from 2030. Offshore wind: Produce enough offshore wind to power every home in the UK, quadrupling how much it produces to 40 gigawatts by 2030, and supporting up to 60,000 jobs.

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Jaguar Land Rover and EPSRC announce $17M autonomous vehicle research program; 5 projects selected

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Led by Dr. Marina Gashinova, the project combines novel low-THz (LTHz) sensor development with advanced video analysis, fusion and cross learning. Led by Dr. Mehrdad Dianati at the University of Surrey, this project also involves Imperial College London, University of Warwick, and the UK’s Transport Research Laboratory.