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Google and IEEE launch $1M challenge for downsized inverters

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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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Ending an Ugly Chapter in Chip Design

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The crux of the clash was whether Google’s AI solution to one of chip design’s thornier problems was really better than humans or state-of-the-art algorithms. It pitted established male EDA experts against two young female Google computer scientists, and the underlying argument had already led to the firing of one Google researcher.

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Transparency Depends on Digital Breadcrumbs

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From the moment we wake up and reach for our smartphones and throughout the day as we text each other, upload selfies to social media, shop, commute, work, work out, watch streaming media, pay bills, and travel, and even while we’re sleeping, we spew personal data like jets sketching contrails across the sky.

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Students Develop Low-Cost Wearable Device for the Visually Impaired

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The technology used in the device includes optical character recognition, machine learning, and Google application programming interfaces. If the device can’t read text because the user isn’t holding the book or other document correctly, OurVision verbally notifies the user the alignment is off.

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Mercedes-Benz launches new private car-sharing scheme: Croove

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Not long after launch though, there will also be an Android version in the Google Play Store, along with a desktop website for booking a vehicle. When Croove is first launched, it will be possible to either collect the vehicle in person or pay extra for a pickup and delivery service.

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

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I was very happy and thankful that I got an award that honors a person I knew very well," Nahamoo says. The supercomputer was the first step to creating an AI machine that people could interact with as if they were speaking to another person, he says. CHOOSING A DIFFERENT PATH. IEEE APPRECIATION.

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Lewis H. Latimer: A Life of Lightbulb Moments

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But the existential dread associated with being a Black man without documents certifying that he was free became more pitched when the U.S. Sandford decision , ruled that an enslaved person was not made free by entering a state whose laws forbid slavery. Alamy In a piece of personal correspondence with Booker T.

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