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DEED sets records

Electric Auto Association

Members of the Gateway Electric Vehicle Association at the St. Louis DEED event. From established events to first-timers Gateway Electric Vehicle Association ’s (GEVA), participation in the St. Community Partners included Climate Action Reserve , Forth , and Virginia Clean Cities.

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$12+M awarded to 4 projects seeking to design crops with ability to fix their own nitrogen; no artificial fertilizers

Green Car Congress

The US National Science Foundation (NSF) and UK’s Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council (BBSRC) made the awards following an “Ideas Lab” that focused on new approaches for dealing with the challenges of nitrogen in the growing global food demand. Researchers led by Washington University in St. Louis; and Costas D.

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AI’s Grandmaster Status Overshadows Chess Scandal

Cars That Think

grandmaster, of cheating during their game at the Sinquefield Cup , in St. But told that it is “mate in three moves,” the duffer may see the light. Just a phrase—“the rook,” say, or “double attack”—may also make the idea apparent. Last week Magnus Carlsen, the world chess champion, directly accused Hans Niemann, a U.S.

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Xerox Parc’s Engineers on How They Invented the Future—and How Xerox Lost It

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The ideas developed at PARC found their way into a number of commercial products, companies, and publications, shown here as leafy branches. So almost everyone who joined PARC in its formative years had a different idea of what the center’s charter was. This had its advantages. Pake, a longtime friend, to run it.

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