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5 Ways Women Can Advance Their Careers in Tech

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Nandu Koripally [front] and Lulu Yao work with a structural supercapacitor developed by UC San Diego engineers. David Baillot/UC San Diego Jacobs School of Engineering Open Doors That Are Closed to You If a door isnt open to you, it doesnt mean you dont belong on the other side.

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2024 Jeep Wagoneer S Review -- Finding the Space Between

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Full disclosure: Jeep flew me to San Diego/Carlsbad and fed and housed me for two nights so that I could drive the Wagoneer S. The ride was pleasant on glass-smooth SoCal roads, but it was way too stiff over some broken pavement in the San Diego suburb of La Jolla.

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Video Friday: Tiny Robot Bug Hops and Jumps

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But to engineers at the University of California San Diego, this game was an inspiration, suggesting that measuring tape could become a great material for a robotic gripper. University of California San Diego ] I enjoyed the Murderbot books, and the trailer for the TV show actually looks not terrible.

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AlexNet Source Code Is Now Open Source

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Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections/Cornell University Library In the 1980s, neural network research was revived outside the AI community by cognitive scientists at the University of California San Diego, under the new name of connectionism. After finishing his Ph.D.

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"Flying Batteries" Could Help Microdrones Take Off

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But theyre a difficult engineering challenge, says Patrick Mercier , an electrical and computer engineering professor at University of California San Diego. Microbots could be an important technology to find people buried in rubble or scout ahead in other dangerous situations.

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Where Your Author Owns a Used BMW Convertible for a Second Year

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Believe it or not, weve crossed the two-year ownership mark with the Nashville-via-San Diego sourced 2010 BMW Z4. The 60,000-mile mark on the odometer has rolled past, and among many fun drives on curvy roads additional maintenance items have been resolved. Oh, and there was a multi-day stay at the dealer for an important recall.

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Used Car of the Day: 1989 Honda CRX Si

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If you're looking for a hot hatch and the refreshed Volkswagen GTI is too modern for you -- or too automatic -- this one is for sale near San Diego for $15,000. It also appears to have no rust, thanks to it being a life-long California car. Click here for more. Images: Seller] Become aTTACinsider.

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