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Brain-Inspired Computer Approaches Brain-Like Size

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Today Dresden, Germany-based startup SpiNNcloud Systems announced that their hybrid supercomputing platform, the SpiNNcloud Platform, is available for sale. Hector Gonzalez, SpiNNcloud Systems SpiNNcloud Systems was founded in 2021 as a spinoff of the Dresden University of Technology.

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Anellotech Bio-TCat hits commercially-targeted yields during 6 months of continuous operations

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Based on scientific research initially performed in Professor George Huber's laboratory at the University of Massachusetts-Amherst, the process has subsequently been developed by Anellotech. The Bio-TCat reactor produces a liquid product containing more than 98% C 6+ aromatic chemicals directly from the MinFree-pretreated feedstock.

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Quebec passes Canada's first zero-emission vehicle rule, to start in 2018

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Quebec has become the first Canadian province to adopt a requirement for sales of a certain number of zero-emission vehicles, similar to the one in effect in California. Quebec's Assemblée Nationale passed the regulation on October 26 by a unanimous vote of 112 to 0, and to universal praise from Canada's electric vehicle community.

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Nissan begins Japan sales of new quick charger for EVs; targeting sales of 5K units by March 2016

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With the adoption of new electric circuit technology developed in cooperation with Nagaoka University of Technology and by leveraging technology used in Nissan manufacturing and R&D, the new unit costs ¥598,500 (US$7,700) including tax for the base grade, which is below half the price of the current unit.

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Video Friday: Robot Arms for the ISS

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Unlike Sox, our robot dogs are real and for sale! Team NimbRo from University of Bonn, Germany came in first with 22 points, Team HERoEHS from Korea came in second with 5.5 The programmable robot dogs run on Arduino with the open source quadruped framework OpenCat. Petoi ] Thanks, Rongzhong! points and Team RoMeLa, USA came in third.

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Aemetis wins $6M biodiesel supply contract with India Government oil companies

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announced that its Universal Biofuels subsidiary has won a $6-million first contract to supply biodiesel to the India government-owned Oil Marketing Companies (OMC) in a public tender process. Aemetis, Inc.

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Welcome to Venice. That’ll Be 5 Euros, Please.

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Some held signs saying, “Venice is not for sale” and “Stick It to the Ticket,” and chanted, “We want to take back our city.” “A Otherwise, “this is how a city dies,” said Nicola Camatti, an economics professor and expert in tourism at Ca’ Foscari University of Venice. Venice is a living city, not a theme park,” she said.