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GE VC Firms Announce $200M Open Innovation Challenge to Accelerate Power Grid Technology Through Open Collaboration

Green Car Congress

GE Chairman and CEO Jeff Immelt unveiled the challenge, the “GE ecomagination Challenge: Powering the Grid,” in San Francisco 13 July. The global challenge invites technologists, entrepreneurs and start-ups to share their best ideas and come together to build the next-generation power grid to meet the needs of the 21 st century.

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One Way to Stop the Social Spread of Disinformation

Cars That Think

An article describing how the platform works was published in the September issue of IEEE Communications Magazine. “If After AT&T, he helped companies develop chips for 3G and Wi-Fi at Cadence Design Systems , in San Jose, Calif. and San Francisco, initially as its director of R&D and eventually as its chief technology officer.

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News: Range Milestones Hit by Lucid and Rivian

Clean Fleet Report

Lucid also ran a real-world test of pre-production cars with Motor Trend magazine driving from Los Angeles to San Francisco that demonstrated the 500+ mile range of the car. On its road to its record range, Lucid developed a 900-volt battery system with a proprietary battery management system and miniaturized drive units.

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Just Calm Down About GPT-4 Already

Cars That Think

I live in the city of San Francisco, and for almost a year now, I’ve been able to take rides after 10:30 PM and before 5:00 AM, if it’s not a foggy day—I’ve been able to take rides in a Cruise vehicle with no driver. I think the Level-2 and Level-3 stuff in cars is amazingly good now. The level 5, or even level 4, not so much.

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Inventing Postscript, the Tech That Took the Pain out of Printing

Cars That Think

With the help of David Evans of Evans & Sutherland and William Hambrecht of Hambrecht and Quist, a San Francisco-based venture capital firm, they wrote a business plan and incorporated in December of 1982. They intended both to sell this setup as a turnkey system and to franchise the publishing equivalent of a one-hour photo store.

Design 101
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BREAKING NEWS: US Science Report Proves All Out Effort To Fight Climate Change Needed Right Now Or Everyone Is Screwed. Get It?

Creative Greenius

Don’t look for this story on the cover of Time magazine. New Report Stresses Immediacy of Climate Change – San Francisco Chronicle. Is that plain enough? Happy to help. I know because I’m a subscriber. Global Warming Study Released – Boston Globe website.

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The First Million-Transistor Chip: the Engineers’ Story

Cars That Think

In San Francisco on Feb. If you let people just dive in and try anything they want, any trick they’ve read about in some magazine, you end up with a lot of circuits that are marginal and flaky,” said Albers. 27, 1989, Intel Corp., Santa Clara, Calif., Instead, we only pushed it where it had to be pushed.

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