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Rivian opens R&D center in Serbia

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Rivian opened a research and development (R&D) center in Belgrade, Serbia, the Development Agency of Serbia announced on Thursday. The Development Agency of Serbia noted that Rivian confirmed that there were several hundred job applications received. Besides the USA and Canada, they opened a center only in Serbia.

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Remembering Data Compression Pioneer K. R. Rao

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University of Texas at Arlington for more than 50 years. Kunsan National University , in Korea; Miicevic is an assistant professor of telecommunications and IT at the University of Belgrade , in Serbia; and Bojkovi? is a professor of electrical engineering, also at the University of Belgrade. He received a Ph.D.

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Korean consortium forming JV with Bolivian miner Comibol for lithium production in Salar de Uyuni

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Korea’s advanced technology and Bolivia’s resources will create synergy.” million tons of identified lithium resources, respectively, while Brazil, Congo, and Serbia each contain approximately 1 million tons. The agreement will enable Korea to gain the upper hand over them,” said Kim Shin-jong, KORES president. million tons and 2.6

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Argonne-led study insights help to reduce degradation in fuel cells and extend lifetime

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Scientists at the US Department of Energy’s (DOE) Argonne National Laboratory led a team to investigate reactions in PEMFCs, and their discoveries informed the creation of technology that could bring fuel cells one step closer to realizing their full market potential. A paper on their work is published in Nature Materials. Lopes, P.P.,

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U.S. vs. China Rivalry Boosts Tech—and Tensions

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A year later, with much less fanfare, Tsinghua University ’s Beijing Academy of Artificial Intelligence released an even larger model, Wu Dao 2.0 , with 10 times as many parameters—the neural network values that encode information. That matters, because dominance in the technology means probable victory in any future war.

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Ipsos study finds US among most skeptical of Autonomous Vehicles

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This issue of What the Future focuses on mobility, and if people are ready for the coming technology. Ipsos suggested that perhaps the reluctance of Americans to embrace this emerging technology has to do with its strong identity as a car-culture. Data is weighted to match the profile of the population.