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Standards Take Online Gaming to the Next Level

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In-person tournaments are expected to be held again once COVID-19 restrictions ease. They include the lack of technical standards to address bandwidth, connectivity, interoperability, and latency issues. The new IEEE Computer Society Online Gaming Standards Committee plans to address the challenges.

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Forget JPEG, How Would a Person Compress a Picture?

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So we decided to take a step back from the standard image compression tools, and see if there is a path to better compression that, to date, hasn't been widely traveled. Since then, other engineers have used experiments with humans to set standards for gauging the performance of artificial intelligence algorithms.

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Luminar and Volvo Cars release of comprehensive lidar dataset; 250m range

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All images have gone through an anonymization process blurring faces and license plates to eliminate personally identifiable information. Luminar also has the unique capability of dynamically adjusting its scan pattern for optimized resolution up to 5x standard uniform distribution.

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EIA projects decline in transportation sector energy consumption through 2037 despite increase in VMT, followed by increase

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For the Transportation sector, EIA projects that energy consumption will decline between 2019 and 2037 (in the Reference case) because increases in fuel economy more than offset growth in vehicle miles traveled (VMT). Light-duty vehicle miles traveled increases by 20% in the Reference case, growing from 2.9 trillion miles in 2018 to 3.5

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TRB releases new report identifying deficiencies impacting e-scooter rider safety

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The report, released under the Behavioral Traffic Safety Cooperative Research Program (BTSCRP), found that available data and research evaluating e-scooter safety are lagging behind the rapid adoption and expansion of this form of transportation commonly referred to as micromobility.

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FCA US LLC to pay ~$300M in criminal penalties over diesel emissions test cheating

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FCA US referred to the manner in which it manipulated one method of emissions control as “cycle detection” and “cycle beating.” According to the company’s admissions and court documents, beginning at least as early as 2010, FCA US developed a new 3.0-liter liter diesel program’s goals, timing, and marketing strategy.

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EIA projects nearly 50% increase in world energy usage by 2050, led by growth in Asia

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EIA’s annual long-term assessment of world energy markets includes a Reference case and four core side cases, which use different assumptions for the projections in each case. EIA projects India and China will account for more than half of global output from energy-intensive manufacturing between 2018 and 2050 in the Reference case.

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