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Ford and Intel demonstrate in-car personalization with perceptual computing; Project Mobii

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The joint research project, called Mobile Interior Imaging, or Project Mobii, explores how interior-facing cameras could be integrated with sensor technology and data already generated within and around the vehicle to create a more personalized and seamless interaction between driver and vehicle that transforms the driving experience.

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How USB Came to Be

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USB ports now are standard on personal computers and are built into many other electronic devices such as smartphones, eBook readers, and game consoles. The ubiquitous USB standard has been commemorated with an IEEE Milestone. In 1992 Bhatt visited the Jones Farm Conference Center , in Hillsboro, Ore.,

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The Engineer Behind Samsung’s Speech Recognition Software

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After joining Google’s acoustic modeling team in 2013, he worked to ensure the company’s AI assistive technology, used in Google Home products, could perform in the presence of background noise. He is the youngest person to be an executive vice president at the company. encouraged him to apply for a software engineering job there.

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Report finds road transportation sector in Canada likely to fall far short of 2050 GHG emissions reduction target

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A new Conference Board of Canada report finds that Canada is unlikely to achieve an 80% reduction in greenhouse gas emissions from 1990 levels by 2050. Canada’s road transport emissions were 40% higher in 2013 than in 1990. Meeting the 80% reduction would entail a reduction of approximately 117 Mt CO 2 e from 2013 levels.

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This Nobel Laureate Paved the Way for High-Intensity Lasers

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Her seminal research on chirped-pulse amplification is the gold standard of research,” one of her award endorsers said. She is an extremely giving person and a shining example of what an IEEE honorary member should be.” She is an extremely giving person and a shining example of what an IEEE honorary member should be.”

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Tesla says Model S comes out on top in US-NCAP crash testing with lowest Vehicle Safety Score

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In this case, lower is better: VSS is essentially a weighted average risk of personal injury resulting from the different NCAP crash tests. In April 2013, NHTSA requested pubic comments on further proposed changes to US-NCAP, including crash avoidance technologies as well as crashworthiness.). More stars equal safer cars.

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TUM CREATE introduces tropical megacity e-taxi prototype at Tokyo; super-fast charging with twin charge ports

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Under US FTP 72 standards, a single charge could propel EVA for 330 km (205 miles), according to the TUM CREATE team. At the EVS 27 conference in Barcelona, engineers from TUM CREATE presented a paper on the accelerated ageing tests they performed on the large format lithium-ion cells for EVA. Batteries Electric (Battery)'

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