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Boeing and Kitty Hawk form strategic partnership on electric urban air mobility

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headquartered in Mountain View, California, builds electric transportation solutions to free people from traffic and decrease carbon footprint. The company’s portfolio of vehicles includes Cora, a two-person air taxi and Flyer, a vehicle for personalized flight. Kitty Hawk Corp.,

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Biggest Tech Companies Now Building the Biggest Data Pipes

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Old-fashioned telecommunication carriers are falling behind in the global bandwidth race as global giants of content and cloud computing are building their own global networks. Facebook has commissioned electronics and IT giant NEC Corporation to build the world's highest capacity submarine cable.

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Help Build the Future of Assistive Technology

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This article is sponsored by California State University, Northridge (CSUN). AT, in its most basic form, is anything that helps a person achieve enhanced performance, improved function, or accelerated access to information. California State University, Northridge (CSUN). Help build the future of assistive technology!

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The Top 10 Semiconductor Stories of 2023

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But you’re also a discerning and forward-looking person. In 2022, a schism in the chip design world and at Google erupted into the open. At issue was a reinforcement-learning AI system that Google uses to do a key step in laying out chunks of logic and memory for its AI accelerator chips, or TPUs.

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Ending an Ugly Chapter in Chip Design

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It pitted established male EDA experts against two young female Google computer scientists, and the underlying argument had already led to the firing of one Google researcher. According to press reports , its leader Satarjit Chatterjee, repeatedly undermined Mirhoseini and Goldie personally and was fired for it in 2022.

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Meet Mr. Internet: Vint Cerf

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The two had been exchanging ideas in person and via email and reviewing the work of others who were trying to solve similar issues. The networks couldn’t be changed and couldn’t know that they were part of the Internet, because they already existed,” Cerf recalls recently in an interview at his office at Google, in Reston, Va.

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50 Years Later, We’re Still Living in the Xerox Alto’s World

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I’m using a word processor with the core features and functions of Microsoft Word, Google Docs, or LibreOffice’s Writer, along with an email client that could be mistaken for a simplified version of Apple Mail, Microsoft Outlook, or Mozilla Thunderbird. Southern California? This vision wasn’t entirely new or limited to Xerox PARC.

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