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Rule of the Robots: Warning Signs

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In November of that year, a front-page New York Times article was instrumental in bringing awareness of deep learning technology to the broader public sphere. The article, written by reporter John Markoff, ends with a quote from Geoff Hinton: "The point about this approach is that it scales beautifully. In many ways we already have."

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Practical Power Beaming Gets Real

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Wires also challenge electric utilities: These companies must take pains to boost the voltage they apply to their transmission cables to very high values to avoid dissipating most of the power along the way. Perhaps the most dramatic demonstration of safe laser power beaming prior to our team’s effort was by the company.

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Bezos Bucks? Get Ready for Corporate Digital Currency

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He saw this scheme chiefly as a way for companies to smooth out the volatility of sales and make their business more predictable. A Second Pillar Elias Stein Pillar 2 involves Amazon Web Services (AWS), the world’s largest cloud-computing company. But Amazon/AWS could offer a form of partnership with some or all of these big companies.

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Electric-Car Fans Rally Around the Volt - Green Inc. Blog - NYTimes.com

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About $750 million is needed for near-term Volt development, according to the company. Even this article keeps showing the old futuristic version model which GM said can’t be done. Short sighted company with a CEO that should have been fired long ago. the viability of GM as a company. rolls toward bankruptcy.

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Electric Cars and a Smarter Grid - Green Inc. Blog - NYTimes.com

Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

I would say that electricity is a vastly superior fuel for the light vehicle fleet,” said Willett Kempton , a professor and alternative energy specialist at the University of Delaware. “If any energy company ignores the long-term impact on future fossil-fuel-backed energy sales, they will be in for a shock.&# but not all of it.

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Electric Car Makers: Oregon Wants You - Green Inc. Blog - NYTimes.com

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According to Nissan, the company plans to introduce its upcoming electric car in Oregon in late 2010. Although Think has been plagued by bad financial news recently, the company’s North American C.E.O., Firefly Energy is the most prominent of these companies. In the U.S. link] — Adam Carter 11.

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