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CoolPlanet BioFuels claims conversion yield of 4K gallons gasoline per acre biomass

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CoolPlanet BioFuels, a start-up developing technology to convert low-grade biomass into high-grade fuels including gasoline, and carbon that can be sequestered ( earlier post ), claims it has achieved a conversion yield of 4,000 gallons gasoline/acre biomass in pilot testing using giant miscanthus, an advanced bioenergy crop.

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AIs and Robots Should Sound Robotic

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AI agents will make calls on our behalf, conversing with others in natural language. A ring modulator has several advantages: It is computationally simple, can be applied in real-time, does not affect the intelligibility of the voice, and--most importantly--is universally robotic sounding because of its historical usage for depicting robots.

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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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There’s a New Problem With Electric Cars That No One Saw Coming

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This week we sit down with Cody Stolle, research assistant professor at the University of Nebraska Lincoln and the assistant director at the Midwest Roadside Safety Facility, to discuss a lesser-known problem with EVs and road safety. It pertains to our conversation and is worth your time. As well as here.

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The Quest to Ensure Nonspeaking Autistic People Are Heard

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That study was led by the three of us: a developmental psychologist ( Vikram Jaswal at the University of Virginia), an electrical and software engineer (Diwakar Krishnamurthy at the University of Calgary), and a computer scientist ( Mea Wang , also at the University of Calgary). Our journey to this point was not smooth.

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IEEE Celebrates Engineering Brilliance

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ALLEN MEDAL Sponsor: IBM DAVID KUCK University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign “For pioneering work in vector and parallel computer architecture, software, and compilers that enables many performance-sensitive applications.” IEEE FRANCES E. IEEE MEDAL FOR ENVIRONMENTAL AND SAFETY TECHNOLOGIES Sponsor: Toyota Motor Corp. IEEE RICHARD W.

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IEEE’s Honor Society Expands to More Countries

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There are now more than 270 IEEE-HKN chapters at universities around the world. There are now 30 chapters outside the United States, including ones recently established at universities in Ecuador, Hungary, and India. In October the Nu Theta chapter debuted at Purdue University Northwest in Hammond, Ind.

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