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The Engineer Behind Samsung’s Speech Recognition Software

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Every time you use your voice to generate a message on a Samsung Galaxy mobile phone or activate a Google Home device, you’re using tools Chanwoo Kim helped develop. He recently left Samsung to continue his work in the field at Korea University , in Seoul, leading the school’s speech and language processing laboratory.

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Elon Musk’s xAI highlights societal impact with Nevada incorporation: report

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” xAI also noted that it is guided by its mission to “advance our collective understanding of the universe.” As per the filing, which was initially reported by The Information , xAI as a company seeks to create a “material positive impact on society and the environment, taken as a whole.”

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We Need to Decarbonize Software

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Companies like Salesforce have launched their own software sustainability initiatives , while the Green Software Foundation now comprises 64 member organizations, including tech giants Google , Intel , and Microsoft. The design stage is all about choosing efficient algorithms and architectures. “We

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The Metaverse Could Help Us Better Understand Reality

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The word resurfaced a short time later in the product road maps of a hundred failed startups and is returning now as the plaything of Big Tech. We're hearing that everyone will need access to the metaverse, that this virtual universe will be the place we'll all soon be working and playing.

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Video Friday: Ingenuity’s 50th Flight

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JPL ] Georgia Tech researchers have recently created a soft rotary motor using liquid metal, compliant magnetic composites, and silicone polymers. DARPA’s Robotic Autonomy in Complex Environments with Resiliency (RACER) program recently conducted its third experiment to assess the performance of off-road unmanned vehicles.

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Video Friday: Robot Soccer Finals

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The European Robocup Finals 2022, featuring Tech United vs VDL Robotsports. Tech United ] Within the European Union project we aim to autonomously monitor habitats. In association with universities, institutes and development companies, we are developing research platforms whose basic technical principles are based on nature.

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How Remote Sensing Technologies Increase Food Production

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CRAWFORD EMPLOYER Purdue University, West Lafayette, Ind. TITLE ‘Professor of civil engineering, agronomy, and electrical and computer engineering MEMBER GRADE Fellow ALMA MATERS University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign Ohio State University, Columbus But her engineering path eventually led her back to agriculture.