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IEEE Young Professionals Take On Climate Change

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The task force collaborates on organizing virtual and in-person events with IEEE groups including Women in Engineering and external organizations such as the International Renewable Energy Agency. One webinar, for example, brought together representatives from the ETH Zurich university, the Clean Energy Ministerial forum, and Student Energy.

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SpaceX and Dish’s Super-Shady War for the World

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Or—given the outsize personalities involved (including Elon Musk and Michael Dell) and the epic, five-year duration of the dispute to date—maybe more like a space opera. GHz frequency range at next year’s ITU World Radiocommunication Conference in the United Arab Emirates.

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Competition Spurs Robotics and AI Innovations for Maritime Challenges

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These challenges are essentially opening up to competition the development of solutions to key industrial and societal problems and offering prize money to the winners. The MBZIRC had two previous iterations that were organized by Khalifa University in Abu Dhabi.

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The Legacy of the Datapoint 2200 Microcomputer

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One such technology is the Datapoint 2200, a programmable terminal that laid the foundation for the personal computer revolution. The pioneering system integrated a CPU, memory, and input/output devices into a single unit, making it a compact, self-contained device. Launched in 1970 by Computer Terminal Corp.

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Open-Source AI Is Uniquely Dangerous

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These platforms cannot yet accurately detect AI-generated content at scale, and can be used to distribute massive amounts of personalized misinformation and, of course, scams. Unfortunately, given the misaligned incentives in the current AI and information ecosystems, it’s unlikely that industry will take these actions unless forced to do so.