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7 finalists announced for USDOT Smart City Challenge; Amazon Web Services new partner

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The USDOT has pledged up to $40 million (funding subject to future appropriations) to one city to help it define what it means to be a “Smart City “and become the country’s first city to fully integrate innovative technologies—self-driving cars, connected vehicles, and smart sensors—into their transportation network.

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A Serial Entrepreneur Shares Lessons Learned on His Road to Success

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His most recent venture, Insent , was a business-to-business chat platform based in Denver; it was acquired last year by software and data company ZoomInfo of Vancouver, Wash. As an active volunteer with the IEEE Kerala (India) Section , he spoke at numerous conferences and meetings. I was 23 years old.

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Robert Kahn: The Great Interconnector

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The ARPANET Is Born Kahn wasn’t the only one thinking about connecting disparate computers in the 1960s. In 1965, Larry Roberts, then at the MIT Lincoln Laboratory , connected one computer in Massachusetts to another in California over a telephone line. I was pretty sure it would work,” Kahn says, “but it was a big event.

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NVIDIA dives into Parker mobile processor for next generation of autonomous vehicles

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Speaking at the Hot Chips conference in Cupertino, California, NVIDIA revealed the architecture and underlying technology of its new Parker processor, which is suited for automotive applications such as self-driving cars and digital cockpits. The Denver 2.0 paired with four 64-bit ARM Cortex A57 CPUs. Parker specifications.

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Subspace Rebuilt the Internet for Real-Time Applications

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This explains the dropped calls and interruptions in conference calls. More than 20 percent of Internet-connected devices experienced performance issues at any given time, and 80 percent had major disruptions several times a day.

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