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Microsoft and Helion want to build the world’s first fusion plant and seize energy’s ‘Holy Grail’

GeekWire

Engineers for decades have chased the promise of fusion energy — a potentially limitless source of carbon-free power. To translate the process to an Earth-sized scale, engineers need to build a device in which they can create and sustain a super-heated gas called plasma. The goal is to get the plant running by 2028.

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Researchers find 87% of U.S. classic video games are out of print and ‘critically endangered’

GeekWire

For comparison, this is slightly above the availability of pre-World War II audio recordings,” Salazar writes, “and slightly below the survival rate of American silent films. The rest are out of print and unplayable without resorting to software piracy. Salazar’s team for the study included UW student researchers Lily Dong, Lane D.

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Waymo and Cruise dominated autonomous testing in California in the first year of the pandemic

The Verge

But companies licensed to operate AVs on public roads in California still logged nearly 2 million miles of testing, with two of the top operators, Waymo and Cruise, comprising the bulk of those miles thanks to what some safety drivers allege was a lax attitude toward safety. a decrease of about 800,000 miles from the previous year.

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Scott Lowe

Speaking of Pulumi, Kyle Galbraith wrote up a comparison of Pulumi and Terraform for infrastructure as code. The CNCF blog has a great article written by an Alibaba software engineer (Xingyu Chen) on some performance optimizations for etcd that have been contributed back to the open source community.

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Practical advice to optimize savings with cloud migrations

CIO Business Intelligence

The “unanticipated” costs of not doing the prep work are legion: egress charges, (semi-) failed moves, moving the wrong things/combinations at the wrong times, failure to capture service costs pre-move for comparison, and so many more. CPetersen_CS Sacolick pointed out such issues are not exactly unique to the cloud.

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Pioneering study uses traffic cameras and AI to predict future, promising to save lives and money

GeekWire

The city this week shared its first batch of reports from the groundbreaking program, which has drawn comparisons to “Minority Report,” the 2002 film in which Tom Cruise anticipates and preemptively stops crime. A senior transportation engineer with the city of Bellevue at work in their transportation management center.

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ePUB.js vs Readium.js – A Detailed Comparison of 2 ePUB Readers

Kitaboo

It contains a flexible rendering engine and offers a simple interface for common eBook functions such as pagination, styling, and persistence without developing a dedicated plugin or application. Does the license suite of libraries suit your individual project needs? What is ePUB.js? Key Features. Among the critical features of ePUB.js