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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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But there is one accomplishment that, unfortunately, has seen even higher gains since 1945: the destructive power of explosives. During the Second World War, explosive power rained on European and Japanese cities in the form of mass-scale bombing, and by the war’s end, in 1945, the most powerful explosive weapon was the Nazi V-2 rocket.

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

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DRIVE PX 2—which delivers processing power equivalent to 150 MacBook Pros—uses two next-generation Tegra processors plus two next-generation discrete GPUs, based on the Pascal architecture ( earlier post ), to deliver up to 24 trillion deep learning operations per second.

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UK wants to ban 100% ICE power by 2030

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Under Boris’s new Green plan, the sale of new combustion engine vehicles, that are powered wholly by Petrol or Diesel will be banned from 2030. Offshore wind: Produce enough offshore wind to power every home in the UK, quadrupling how much it produces to 40 gigawatts by 2030, and supporting up to 60,000 jobs.

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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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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.

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BMW i features i8 Concept Roadster and BMW i3 at Manhattan stop on “Born Electric” World Tour

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The torque is available across a wide rpm range, resulting in smooth power delivery. A single-speed gearbox sends the power to the rear wheels and accelerates the BMW i3 Concept to a top speed of 150 km/h (93 mph). In this mode the BMW i3 Concept coasts with virtually no power consumption, driven solely by its own kinetic energy.

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