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Nevada grants Audi first automaker permit to operate autonomous vehicles on public roads

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The first license went to Google; in December 2012, the state also awarded a testing license to automotive supplier Continental. That Audi research car, developed jointly by the Volkswagen Group Electronics Research Lab in Silicon Valley and Stanford University, autonomously completed the 156-turn, 12.42-mile Earlier post.).

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7 Scholarships Exclusively for Women Studying Engineering

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WIE offers three grants. The 2U Scholarship program is available only to students at George Washington University , American University , Syracuse University , Washington University in St. Louis , and the University of California, Berkeley. But many people cannot afford to pursue a STEM degree.

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WiTricity extends recent funding for a total of $52M

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The new Advisory Board includes: Grant Covic, Professor of Engineering at the University of Auckland, New Zealand, where there are more than 40 Ph.D. and postdoctoral researchers on campus working on wireless charging. Tony Fadell, Principal at Future Shape, a global investment and advisory firm.

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Meet Mr. Internet: Vint Cerf

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But extending it to handle multiple networks—whose reliability couldn’t be taken for granted—was a different story. The networks couldn’t be changed and couldn’t know that they were part of the Internet, because they already existed,” Cerf recalls recently in an interview at his office at Google, in Reston, Va. universities.

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This App Gauges Your Risk of COVID-19 Exposure in Public Places

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Albert Cheng , a professor of computer science and electrical and computer engineering at the University of Houston , is developing a smartphone app to help them do that. Cheng’s app uses Google Maps’ popular-times option , which shows how busy a place tends to be at specific times during the day.

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Recharge IT

Plug In Partners

Google.org to to Accelerate Plug-In Hybrid and Vehicle-to-Grid Technology Google.org , the philanthropic arm of Google Inc. In addition, Google Inc. At today’s event, Google teamed with PG&E to demonstrate the bi-directional flow of electricity between plug-ins and the electric grid.

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Where to locate public chargers?

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Public utilities are beginning to launch EV charger rebate programs that are additive to the VW settlement grant program funds. Congress has passed a bipartisan Infrastructure bill that includes $7.5 billion dollars for EV chargers to be deployed across the states over the next several years.

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