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Google and IEEE launch $1M challenge for downsized inverters

Green Car Congress

Google and the IEEE have launched the Littlebox Challenge—an open competition to design and build a small kW-scale inverter with the highest power density (of at least 50 W/in 3 , or 3.05 Google and IEEE are emphasizing size reduction in their challenge, without targeting a specific application area such as automotive.

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Tomorrow’s AI Will Reason Like Humans, IBM Watson Developer Predicts

Cars That Think

He was a pioneer in the field of acoustics and provided the technical foundation for speech recognition, teleconferencing, MP3 music files, and the efficient digital transmission of human conversation. "I The platform organizes, reads, and searches a company's applications and documents to find the answer. CHOOSING A DIFFERENT PATH.

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How One Bad Manny Can P**s Away Your Brand

Creative Greenius

And do you think anyone at Leviton bothered to even Google me? I scanned the 16 pages of original documents and emailed them the same day. Manny should have at some point in the customer conversation at least made believe that he and Leviton cared about the customer and empathized with their problem. Leviton Manufacturing Co.,

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No Garage Space to Work In

Open Source Civic EV Kit

I also spent today writing some preliminary documentation for the initial conversion steps on the Civic EV. You can check them out in the Google Groups Files section here. There are many Civics on Craigslist.com for $2000 or less that would meet my needs, so getting a car should be fairly easy. Cheers, Tim.

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How Police Exploited the Capitol Riot’s Digital Records

Cars That Think

According to charging documents, at 10:57 that evening, a PayPal account registered to a Gmail address paid US $84.72 One of these warrants, served on Google and covering the interior of the Capitol, showed that a device associated with the Gmail account in question entered the Senate Wing door at 2:18 p.m. on 6 January.

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Opinions and Rants

Porsche 914 EV Conversion

Given their lack of response and technical support, ElectroAuto should provide a list of online resources that people can go to for help in 914 conversions. There are many from the 914ev Google group to the 914club.com and 914world.com groups as well as the EVDL. Why can't the AC55 motor fit?

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Generative AI Has a Visual Plagiarism Problem

Cars That Think

The degree to which large language models (LLMs) might “memorize” some of their training inputs has long been a question, raised by scholars including Google DeepMind’s Nicholas Carlini and the first author of this article (Gary Marcus). With Google Image search, you get back a link, not something represented as original artwork.

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