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Getty images The former Google CEO and his wife, Wendy, announce the winners of their nearly year-long global competition to find and fund teenagers committed to changing the world. It’s just the beginning. Aryan Sharma is a promising 16-year-old in India. He’s already founded a couple small companies, one focused on education and another aimed at helping working-class Indians find jobs, but he has bigger ideas for ways to merge artificial intelligence and medicine. The… Source link

Dive Brief: AES will partner with X, Google’s research and development arm, on electric grid virtualization tools that will help support the corporation’s transition to renewable energy.  The partnership will develop technology to simulate and virtualize AES’ distribution grids in Indiana and Ohio, giving operators a better real-time view of the grid and supporting long-range planning. AES Chief Product Officer and Senior Vice President Chris Shelton said the… Source link

For Google (GOOG, GOOGL) and Alphabet CEO Sundar Pichai, his “ultimate moonshot” is still Search, the company’s iconic and enormously successful search engine.  “[For] me, our ultimate moonshot is still Search. I know people would be surprised to hear that 20 years in. Search works very well, but because I’m working on Search, I see all the limitations. Even today, when people type in a complex query, we’re looking at keywords trying to match it. We still have a long way to go to actually… Source link