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General Fusion and UK Atomic Energy Authority (UKAEA) announce collaborative agreement to advance commercial fusion energy

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General Fusion and the UK Atomic Energy Authority (UKAEA) kicked off projects to advance the commercialization of magnetized target fusion energy as part of a collaborative agreement. The results will hone the design of General Fusion’s demonstration machine being built at the Culham Campus, part of the UK fusion cluster.

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Explosive Power Beats Even Moore’s Law

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And then came an entirely new class of explosives, those exploiting nuclear fission and fusion. hydrogen (or fusion) bomb, tested in 1954, was equivalent to 15 megatons of TNT (63 petajoules). The last V-2 attack on London came on. The bomb that exploded over. The Nagasaki bomb, dropped two days later, released about 105 GJ.

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NVIDIA DRIVE PX 2 platform to power world’s first robotic motor sports competition

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That’s why Kinetik, the London-based investment firm behind Roborace, approached NVIDIA. This enables partners to address the full breadth of autonomous driving algorithms, including sensor fusion, localization and path planning. It also provides high-precision compute when needed for layers of deep learning networks.

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Ford Shows Focus BEV Prototype at Frankfurt

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A consortium of Ford, Scottish and Southern Energy and Strathclyde University will use the fleet of fifteen prototype Ford Focus BEV vehicles and a charging infrastructure in and around the London Borough of Hillingdon from early 2010.

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Learn About the Candidates Running for 2023 President-Elect

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Her areas of interest include multisensor data fusion, intelligent systems, and cybersecurity in aerospace systems. She is a distinguished lecturer for the society and has given talks on signal processing, multisensor data fusion, and neural systems. She has authored or co-authored more than 100 publications.

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UK wants to ban 100% ICE power by 2030

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Innovation and finance: Developing cutting-edge technologies and making the City of London the global centre of green finance. In a specific mention the report says that the UK aims to be the first country to commercialise fusion energy technology. Does this mean you will only be able to purchase an electric vehicle from 2030 onwards?

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Jaguar Land Rover and EPSRC announce $17M autonomous vehicle research program; 5 projects selected

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Led by Dr. Marina Gashinova, the project combines novel low-THz (LTHz) sensor development with advanced video analysis, fusion and cross learning. Led by Dr. Mehrdad Dianati at the University of Surrey, this project also involves Imperial College London, University of Warwick, and the UK’s Transport Research Laboratory.