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BMW, Ford and Honda to create new company focused on optimizing EV grid services: ChargeScape

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Building on years of Open Vehicle-Grid Integration Platform (OVGIP) cross-industry collaboration, ChargeScape’s single platform will eliminate the need for individual integrations between each automotive brand and each electric utility. Additionally, ChargeScape will play a role in helping to decarbonize the grid.

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How Robots Can Help Us Act and Feel Younger

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One is within the home for an older person who needs help, and the other is for the rest of society—for younger people who need to be more productive to support a greater number of older people. What we want to do is build a time machine. Well, one robotic idea is to just cook meals for the person. Toyota Research Institute.

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An After-School Program Teaches Teens Java and Python

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He retained professional programmers who volunteered their time to teach 90-minute weekly in-person and virtual classes seven days a week. Vic Wintriss The classes are held in the San Diego area, including at the Valencia Park/Malcom X and Central libraries and the Digital Start North County tech hobby store in Fallbrook.

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Liquid Metal Battery Corp secures patent rights from MIT

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Earlier this year, the company announced it had received financing from France’s Total—which earlier had funded research on the technology at MIT ( earlier post )—and from a personal investment by Bill Gates. Patents for all liquid metal battery inventions were licensed from MIT.

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One Way to Stop the Social Spread of Disinformation

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When you encourage people to spread falsities to get advertising and make money, then this thing kind of builds on itself. A decentralized cloud would minimize the need to use third-party services to manage and store data on people and business enterprises. It’s a very dangerous situation,” Alamouti warns.

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Inventing Postscript, the Tech That Took the Pain out of Printing

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It would have been quite different had Warnock and company not been in the right place at the right time to meet the right person. The time was right because of the imminence of three hardware developments: the first low-cost, bit-mapped personal computer, the first low-cost laser printer, and a decline in price of high-density memory chips.

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DOE ARPA-E awards $156M to projects to 60 projects to accelerate innovation in clean energy technologies

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production of oil, which is stored in seeds and is convertible to. is one of the most energy dense forms of stored energy in. engineer sugarcane and sorghum to produce and store oil, a. High Performance, Low Cost Superconducting Wires and Coils. American Superconductor will develop a new, low-cost.

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