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Pioneer of Google’s Data Centers Dies at 58

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Three years later, the company was acquired by Compaq and his project was terminated. The company housed its servers at leased space in third-party data centers, which were basically cages in which a few racks of computing equipment were placed. For his discoveries, Rao received the 2023 International Prize in Statistics.

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CrownCruiser introduces its e-bike

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Featuring a lightweight, ultra-strong monocoque carbon fiber frame, the CrownCruiser e-bike comes with a rider recognition anti-theft defense, GSM location tracking, and Bluetooth, complimented by a powerful app that tracks riding statistics. mph (PAS), according to the company. The bike has a range of 100 miles at 15.5

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MIT study finds Uber & Lyft increase congestion, decrease transit ridership and don’t affect vehicle ownership

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Researchers at MIT report that the entrance of transportation network companies (TNCs)—specifically Uber and Lyft, which together have a 98% share of the market—in cities led to increased road congestion in terms of both intensity (by 0.9%) and duration (by 4.5%); an 8.9% —Diao et al.

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Organisations must look at diversity beyond gender | Autocar Professional

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Sharing glimpses of her own experience at the company, she says, “Once you prove yourself and show your sincerity towards the task, I have not faced any specific gender bias specifically. For a good seven to eight years, she had been working as an accessor for Tata Motors and external Tata Group companies.

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Fujitsu and RESC collaborate on infrastructure to support electric scooters; consolidated cloud-based management of battery information

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This will make it possible to monitor travel-related information, such as road traffic and vehicle statistics. By 2015, they plan to roll out electric scooters with these batteries to delivery companies, along with the infrastructure system; by 2020, the system will be available to the general public.

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Deep Learning Can’t be Trusted Brain Modelling Pioneer Says

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Grossberg—an endowed professor of cognitive and neural systems, and of mathematics and statistics, psychological and brain sciences, and biomedical engineering at Boston University —based ART on his theories about how the brain processes information. He calls his model Adaptive Resonance Theory (ART).

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A Brief History of the Office Cubicle

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For that you can thank Robert Propst , a designer at the Herman Miller furniture company. The globe became known around the company as the maskitball. “It The Acoustic Area Conditioner was just a little smaller than a basketball—hence its nickname within the company: the maskitball. In 1964, the office cubicle was born.

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