A Q&A with Cruise’s head of AI, Hussein Mehanna

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AI engineers of all descriptions—the autonomous vehicle industry wants youIn 2016, Cruise, an autonomous vehicle startup acquired by General Motors, had about 50 employees. At the beginning of 2019, the headcount at its San Francisco headquarters—mostly software engineers, mostly working on projects connected to machine learning and artificial intelligence—hit around…
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Squeezing Rocket Fuel From Moon Rocks

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Here’s how lunar explorers will mine the regolith to make rocket fuel @media screen and (max-width:767px){ .carousel-inner{ height:464px !important; } } Illustration: John MacNeill The most valuable natural resource on the moon may be water. In addition to sustaining lunar colonists, it could also be broken down into its constituent…
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Open-Source Tool Lets Anyone Experiment With Cryptocurrency Blockchains

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SimBlock, a new blockchain simulator, lets users play around with the parameters of Bitcoin, Litecoin, and DogecoinBlockchain technology records information to a ledger shared between thousands of nodes. In the technology’s purest form, those nodes are not controlled by any central authority, and information cannot be changed once written to the ledger. Because of the…
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Combating the Opioid Crisis, One Flush at a Time

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Startup Biobot Analytics monitors wastewater to identify at-risk neighborhoods.entry-content .tisubhead { color: #999999; font-family: verdana; font-size: 14px; font-weight: bold; letter-spacing: 1px; margin-bottom: -5px !important; text-transform: uppercase; } .tiopener { color: #0f4994; font-family: theinhardt; letter-spacing: 1px; margin-right: 15px; font-weight: bold; text-transform: uppercase; } Photo: Biobot Analytics A Biobot employee works with…
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