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IEEE: Will CARB Take Part in Plug-in Car Revival?

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The IEEE Spectrum Magazine for November 07 touts on its cover "Battery or Fuel-Cell Cars? Academics awash in government and corporate grants analyse and research biofuels and hydrogen. A California Cabal Will Decide." Interesting choice of headlines. The problem with electric is it is here now. Proven, ready to market.

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DALL-E 2’s Failures Are the Most Interesting Thing About It

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When unveiling the system, Google announced that it would not be releasing code or a public demo due to risks of misuse and generation of harmful images. To gauge its ability to replicate the kinds of stock photos used in corporate communications, Spectrum asked for “a multiethnic group of blindfolded coworkers touching an elephant.”

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Xerox Parc’s Engineers on How They Invented the Future—and How Xerox Lost It

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When the center opened in 1970, it was unlike other major industrial research laboratories; its work wasn’t tied, even loosely, to its corporate parent’s current product lines. The Aurora 100 is now used by corporations to develop in­ house training films and presentation graphics. and Toronto, Ont.,

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