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Students Develop Low-Cost Wearable Device for the Visually Impaired

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OurVision is a low-cost wearable that reads text out loud to users and helps them navigate their surroundings. The technology used in the device includes optical character recognition, machine learning, and Google application programming interfaces.

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NASA to fly payload with SpinLaunch’s mass accelerator to test low-cost, high-cadence kinetic launch system

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There is high demand for Low Earth Orbit (LEO) constellations of inexpensive small satellites for disaster monitoring, weather, national security, and global communications. SpinLaunch satellite buses, and qualified subsystems, are designed to be compatible with any launch system without compromising cost, performance, or mass.??.

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Pioneer of Google’s Data Centers Dies at 58

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Luiz André Barroso Data center pioneer Senior member, 59; died 16 September An engineer at Google for more than 20 years, Barroso is credited with designing the company’s warehouse-size data centers. in computer engineering in 1996 from the University of Southern California. as a software engineer.

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Years Later, Alphabet’s Everyday Robots Have Made Some Progress

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Last week, Google or Alphabet or X or whatever you want to call it announced that its Everyday Robots team has grown enough and made enough progress that it's time for it to become its own thing, now called, you guessed it, "Everyday Robots." But this doesn't seem fair to me, especially for a company that Google used to own.

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Fisker opens reservations for Ocean SUV; cost starts as low as $379/month

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opened reservations for the Ocean electric luxury SUV, arriving in 2022, through its website and native mobile app—available globally on the App Store and Google Play store. Fisker Inc. Reservations are set at US$250 per vehicle and are fully refundable. 80 kWh lithium-ion battery pack.

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DOE awarding >$24M to 77 projects through Technology Commercialization Fund

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High-fidelity ignition models to boost engine thermal efficiency, $720,000 Convergent Science Inc., Arlington, Texas Environmental Insights Explorer for Buildings, $750,000 Google, Mountian View, Calif. Development of low-cost magnetocaloric materials, $150,000 General Engineering and Research, L.L.C.,

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Tony Fadell: The Nest Thermostat Disrupted My Life

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But the technology that I needed to make it happen—reliable low-cost communications, cheap screens and processors—didn’t exist yet. How did these ugly, piece-of-crap thermostats cost almost as much as Apple’s most cutting-edge technology? Nest Gets Googled. In 2014, Google bought Nest for $3.2 That’s right, f ers.

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