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TAE Technologies exceeds fusion reactor performance goals by 250% as company closes $250M round; $1.2B to date

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In its recently closed Series G-2 financing round, TAE secured $250 million from investors in the energy, technology, and engineering sectors to support the company’s mission to deliver a long-term solution to rapidly growing electricity demand while providing global energy independence and security.

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GM and Qualcomm extend relationship; next-gen digital cockpit, telematics and advanced driver assistance systems

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Qualcomm Technologies has worked with GM for years to supply advanced communication solutions for GM’s connected car applications, including safety and diagnostics featured in GM’s connected Chevrolet, Buick, GMC and Cadillac vehicles.

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IEEE Medal of Honor Goes to Vint Cerf

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Together they make up the Internet’s core architecture and enable computers to connect and exchange traffic. Since 2005, Cerf has been vice president and chief Internet evangelist at Google in Reston, Va., He returned to MCI in 1994 and served as a senior vice president for 11 years before joining Google. “It

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Meet Mr. Internet: Vint Cerf

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For the past three months, Vint Cerf and Bob Kahn had been working together on a problem Kahn had been pondering for some time: how to connect ground-based military computers seamlessly to communications satellites and mobile radios. They went over to Engineering Building 1, where the computer was housed, and found the building locked. “I

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GaN company Transphorm closes $70M investment round

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KKR’s investment follows initial rounds of funding led by funds affiliated with Kleiner Perkins Caufield and Byers, Foundation Capital, Google Ventures, Soros Quantum Strategic Partners, INCJ, Fujitsu, Transphorm will use this funding to support its growth, product innovation and expansion.

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The environmental impact of electric cars

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They are also much more efficient with the energy they do use compared to an internal combustion engine (ICE) vehicle. The UK also hopes to connect more and more EVs to the electricity grid to share power at peak times, in something called vehicle to grid charging (V2G). Read case study.

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DOE awarding >$24M to 77 projects through Technology Commercialization Fund

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High-fidelity ignition models to boost engine thermal efficiency, $720,000 Convergent Science Inc., Quanex Building Products Corporation, Houston, Texas SCP SYS LLC, San Francisco, Calif. Arlington, Texas Environmental Insights Explorer for Buildings, $750,000 Google, Mountian View, Calif. Madison, Wis. El Centro, Calif.