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NIO & Bosch Sign Strategic Cooperation Agreement

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During German Chancellor Friedrich Merz’s first official visit to China, NIO Inc. (“NIO”) and Bosch signed a strategic cooperation agreement. Representing the two sides, Dr. Shen Feng, Executive Vice President of NIO and Chairman of its Quality Management Committee, and Dr. Johannes Sommerhaeuser, Regional President Asia-Pacific at Bosch Global Business … [continued]

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Another One Bites the Dust: Aberdeen’s Hydrogen Bus Fleet Ends In Failure

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Aberdeen’s decision to retire and try to sell its 25 hydrogen double decker buses closes a chapter that began with confident claims about global leadership in clean transport. The fleet was promoted as the world’s first hydrogen double deck operation and positioned as a foundation for a broader hydrogen economy … [continued]

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World Models, Free Energy, and a Plastic Dinosaur

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In 2020, I wrote about a meter-high robotic, smart fabric wrapped Plastic Dinosaur that gained consciousness to explore machine learning. A series of articles on the core concepts of machine learning and neural nets, as they existed then, each started with a brief story about Plastic Dinosaur as it learned … [continued]

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Peace: Funding boost little solace for Ontario’s small universities

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Despite this month’s funding announcement, Ontario’s small universities will remain in crisis.   Paralyzed by a tuition cap, provincial funding freeze and federal restrictions on international students, small university campuses have been doing more with less for years. Campuses have closed or been restructured.  An announcement by the province on Feb. 12 to restore some post-secondary funding after nearly a decade of cutbacks will certainly make a difference, but its impact will not reverse the […]