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How Three-Season Tires Perform in Diverse Weather Conditions

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Generally, tread patterns on three-season tires are smooth and straight, traits which are ideal for repelling water whilst driving in the rain and gripping the road when temperatures have us all sweatin’ to the oldies.

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Transparency Depends on Digital Breadcrumbs

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But in order for investigators to identify suspects amidst a mob of thousands, it had to cast a very wide net and sought the cooperation of tech giants like Google, Facebook, and Snap and carriers like Verizon and T-Mobile. The events of that day unfolded on live television watched by millions.

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Schiff Amendment would provide resources to restart Plutonium-238 production for RTGs

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Google Tech Talk: Save the Uranium-233 to Save Solar System Exploration (January 2011). NASA: Expanding Frontiers with Radioisotope Power Systems. DOE: RTG—History and New Horizons. Kirk Sorensen, Chief Nuclear Technologist, Teledyne Brown Engineering.

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Video Friday: Ingenuity’s 50th Flight

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JPL ] Georgia Tech researchers have recently created a soft rotary motor using liquid metal, compliant magnetic composites, and silicone polymers. Google AI ] Sanctuary AI is on a mission to create the world’s first human-like intelligence in general-purpose robots that will help us work more safely, efficiently, and sustainably.

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What Robotics Experts Think of Tesla’s Optimus Robot

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The sense I’m getting is that Optimus isn’t as bad as people thought, but also, nobody [in the robotics community] is very impressed or surprised by any of the tech. In the brief demo, they showed it had a reasonably high loading capacity (holding plant-watering water cans, and lifting bars of aluminum in the factory).

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China is testing more driverless cars than any other country – ET Auto

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million cars, eight-lane expressways and towering bridges over the muddy waters of the Yangtze River. The company that operates them, tech giant Baidu, said last month that it would add another 1,000 of the so-called robot taxis in Wuhan. California regulators later suspended the company’s state license.

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Car Crash Prevention System Wins Student $10,000 IEEE Scholarship

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Georgia Tech freshman studying computer science, created a rip-current detection system that incorporates machine learning. Rip currents are dangerous phenomena that can pull swimmers into deep water. Google Earth , she was able to gather and annotate more than 1,000 images of beaches in Africa, Australia, and North America.

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