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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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AIs and Robots Should Sound Robotic

Cars That Think

AI agents will make calls on our behalf, conversing with others in natural language. But there is something fundamentally different about talking with a bot as opposed to a person. A person can be a friend. The first clip is an AI-generated podcast of this article made by Googles NotebookLM featuring two AI hosts.

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Ford working with Google Prediction API to enable vehicles independently to change behavior for optimal driveability and fuel efficiency

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Prototype screen shot of Ford’s Google Cloud Prediction. Ford researchers are applying Google’s Prediction API to more than two years of their own predictive driver behavior research and analysis in an effort to enable vehicles independently to change how they perform to deliver optimal driveability and fuel efficiency.

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Google Claims Android Auto Will Become Safer and Smarter After Update

The Truth About Cars

Google has announced plans to update Android Auto to reduce the time drivers are required to look at screens. While Google hasn’t gotten overly specific, it has said it wants to place an emphasis on improving safety. Let’s say someone drops& a pin in a group conversation. Google probably understands this.

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Can We Identify a Person From Their Voice?

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So Stillwell went inside Atwood’s and used his phone to record his conversation with Libby and another man, Duane Maki. Secret Service claims to be able to identify an unknown person in a voice-only lineup, comparing a recording of an unknown voice with a recording of a known speaker, as a reference. I heard it. A 2020 U.S.

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Forget JPEG, How Would a Person Compress a Picture?

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The developers of recent compressors like Google's Guetzli encoder, a JPEG compressor that runs far slower but produces smaller files than traditional JPEG tools, tout the fact that these algorithms consider crucial aspects of human visual perception such as the differences in how the eye perceives specific colors or patterns.

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The Inside Story of Google’s Quiet Nuclear Quest

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In 2014 I went to my managers with an audacious proposal: Let’s create a nuclear energy research and development group at Google. I didn’t get laughed out of the room, maybe because Google has a storied history of supporting exploratory research. I had some credibility within the company.

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