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Ukraine Is Riddled With Land Mines. Drones and AI Can Help

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Early on a June morning in 2023, my colleagues and I drove down a bumpy dirt road north of Kyiv in Ukraine. While we were in Ukraine, we also demonstrated our technology for the State Special Transportation Service , a branch of the Ukrainian military responsible for keeping roads and bridges open. All our hard work paid off.

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The Heart and the Chip: What Could Go Wrong?

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At the start of its war against Ukraine, Russia limited its citizens’ access to unbiased news and information in hopes of controlling and shaping the narrative around the conflict. We absolutely must have diversity in our university labs and research centers, but we may be able to do more to shape the young people who study with us.

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Drones That Can Fly Better Than You Can

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Davide Scaramuzza directs the Robotics and Perception group at the University of Zürich. His lab is best known for developing extremely agile drones that can autonomously navigate through complex environments at very high speeds. So I read in the news that Skydio donated 300K of equivalent of drones to Ukraine.

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Green Hydrogen Cars: How They are Different?

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Unlike Lithium, hydrogen is the most plentiful element in the universe ( Lithium is the key component in electric vehicle batteries). Hydrogen production as mentioned above is based on electrolysis, a chemical process that produces hydrogen which is a universal, light, and highly reactive fuel. So what is green hydrogen?

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This Dutch City Is Road-Testing Vehicle-to-Grid Tech

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This initiative is taking place in an environment where everyday citizens want to travel without causing emissions and are increasingly aware of the value of renewables and energy security. “We In the United States in 2011, the University of Delaware and the New Jersey–based utility NRG Energy signed a. That could change soon.

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What If Europe Loses Russian Natural Gas?

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And the recent revelation of atrocities committed by the Russian military in Ukraine have renewed calls to boycott Russian gas, an action European countries are struggling to figure out how to implement. Powered by electricity, they can “pump” heat from the environment at a colder temperature into a building at a warmer temperature.

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IEEE Spectrum’s Top Telecom Stories of 2023

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On the one hand, stories about Russia’s satellite jamming operations in Ukraine and stumbling 5G performance around the world attracted a lot of attention from our visitors in 2023. IEEE Spectrum ‘s readers gravitated to the extremes in the kinds of telecom stories they read this year.

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