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Pioneer of Google’s Data Centers Dies at 58

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Luiz André Barroso Data center pioneer Senior member, 59; died 16 September An engineer at Google for more than 20 years, Barroso is credited with designing the company’s warehouse-size data centers. in computer engineering in 1996 from the University of Southern California. He then moved to Los Angeles, where he earned a Ph.D.

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We Need to Decarbonize Software

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The company found that BLOOM’s final training emitted 50 tonnes of CO 2 —equivalent to about a dozen flights from New York City to Sydney. The biggest need, she adds, is “open data that we can rely on and trust” from big tech data-center operators and cloud providers like Amazon, Google, and Microsoft.

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Video Friday: Robot Soccer Finals

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In association with universities, institutes and development companies, we are developing research platforms whose basic technical principles are based on nature. Geoff joins Pieter Abbeel in our two-part season finale for a wide-ranging discussion inspired by insights gleaned from Hinton’s journey from academia to Google Brain.

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Meet Mr. Internet: Vint Cerf

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“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. But when he entered Stanford University later that year, he envisioned a career in mathematics, not computer science. universities.

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GM planning to “own” the customer relationship beyond the vehicle; autonomous Volts, car sharing and fuel cells

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GM also announced two new car- and ride-sharing projects, one in New York City operating now (Let’s Drive NYC) and one to come in first quarter next year in another US city. In consideration of periodic apartment lease payments, residents receive electronic credits valid for three hours of rental per month.

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Update: 10 Best Car Sharing Programs

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Zipcars can be found in Atlanta, Austin, Baltimore, Boston, Chicago, Dallas, Denver, Detroit, Houston, Los Angeles, Miami, Minneapolis, Milwaukee, New York, Philadelphia, Providence, Sacramento, San Diego, Zipcar users have a card that unlocks their local cars San Francisco, Seattle and Washington, D.C. Zipcar’s potential is enormous.

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IEEE Spectrum’s Top Telecom Stories of 2023

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This Mirror Reverses How Light Travels in Time Nature Physics In an esoteric bit of research this year, a group of researchers based at universities in New York City discovered how to pass a signal through something called a “time interface”—the result being that the entire signal acted like it was moving back in time.

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