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IEEE Medal of Honor Goes to Vint Cerf

Cars That Think

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 for Assigned Names and Numbers from 2000 to 2007. spreading the word about adopting the Internet in service to public good.

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Who Really Invented the Thumb Drive?

Cars That Think

In 2000, at a trade fair in Germany, an obscure Singapore company called Trek 2000 unveiled a solid-state memory chip encased in plastic and attached to a Universal Serial Bus (USB) connector. But Trek 2000 hardly became a household name. This was granted to Amir Ban, Dov Moran, and Oron Ogdan in November 2000.

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No Garage Space to Work In

Open Source Civic EV Kit

There are many Civics on Craigslist.com for $2000 or less that would meet my needs, so getting a car should be fairly easy. You can check them out in the Google Groups Files section here. Since I'm still jet-lagged, I'll ponder this for a few days.

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EV Briefs, and Black Rock City & EVs

Plugs and Cars

Google Guys Th!nk The founders of Google have made personal investments in Tesla as befits dotcom billionaires, and they're converting Priuses to plug-in hybrids for the company fleet with battery maker A123. A number of websites ( webpronews.com , pandia.com ) are reporting that Google may be getting more involved with Th!nk

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Velotric Discover 1 e-bike now $1,099 ($500 off), Juicebox EV charger hits $529, and more

Baua Electric

It is joined by a rare discount on the Juicebox 48A Level 2 EV Charger at $529 , as well as the Jackery Explorer 2000 Pro Portable Power Station for $1,199. You can also go hands-free by connecting it to your Amazon Echo, Alexa, or Google Home. Plus, all of the other best new Green Deals landing this week.

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Justine Bateman's Fight Against Generative AI In Hollywood

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Sam Altman and OpenAI and everyone involved there, those that are doing the same at the Google offshoots, Microsoft, which is essentially OpenAI, I guess. And that stopped in about 2000. Cass: So by here or by they, you really are locating your beef with the companies like OpenAI and so on, more so than perhaps the studios? Where else?

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Are Autonomous Buses the Answer for Efficient Transportation and Reducing Emissions and Fuel Consumption?

Green Car Congress

China’s tech giant, Baidu, is trying to become to autonomous cars what Google’s Android has done for smartphones. The company has challenged other autonomous tech companies such as Nissan, Google and Tesla to make autonomous cars available to consumers by the year 2020, and has even open-sourced its technology.