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Volkswagen Group, Google partnering on quantum computing; traffic optimization, batteries, AI

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The Volkswagen Group and Google will partner on research in the field of quantum computing. As part of this collaboration, a team of specialists from Volkswagen and Google will work together using a Google quantum computer. Volkswagen Group IT wants to make progress in three development areas on the Google quantum computer.

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Here Are 6 Actual Uses for Near-Term Quantum Computers

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On 4 March, Google and XPrize announced a US $5 million prize to anyone who comes up with use cases for quantum computers. If that sounds like an admission that use cases don’t already exist, it isn’t, says Ryan Babbush, head of quantum algorithms at Google. “We How can we use quantum computers to tackle the world’s big problems?”

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Boeing and Kitty Hawk form strategic partnership on electric urban air mobility

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Boeing and start-up Kitty Hawk Corporation have entered a strategic partnership to collaborate on future efforts to advance safe urban air mobility. Working with a company like Kitty Hawk brings us closer to our goal of safely advancing the future of mobility. —Steve Nordlund, vice president and general manager of Boeing NeXt.

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Autonomous driving visionary Dr. Lawrence Burns joining Neural Propulsion Systems as Executive Advisor; L4/L5 autonomous driving

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He has also advised numerous companies—including Google Self-Driving Cars/Waymo for over a decade. After leaving GM in 2009, Dr. Burns was a Professor of Engineering Practice at the University of Michigan (2011-2015), and Director of the Program for Sustainable Mobility at Columbia University (2010-2014).

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Help Build the Future of Assistive Technology

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This article is sponsored by California State University, Northridge (CSUN). California State University, Northridge (CSUN). For more than three decades, the university has hosted the world's largest assistive technology conference. The university is also home to a sister degree, the. The Future of Assistive Technology.

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Study finds GWP of electrolyzed hydrogen to meet ORD’s fuel needs would be 2.5x that of fossil fuels with 2020 grid mix

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Phil Ansell, an aerospace engineer at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, modeled the life cycle carbon dioxide equivalent emissions of liquid hydrogen production required to meet the fuel needs of Chicago’s O’Hare International Airport (ORD) with today’s electric grid mix.

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Elon Musk makes it to TIME Magazine’s list of 100 Most Influential People in AI

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The list includes notable leaders in artificial intelligence such as OpenAI’s Sam Altman and NVIDIA’s Jensen Huang, as well as Google DeepMind’s Demis Hassabis. When DeepMind was bought out by Google in 2014, Musk became concerned that the tech giant would not take AI safety seriously.

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