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FCA, Waymo expand autonomous driving technology partnership; exclusive agreement for light commercial vehicles

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FCA and Waymo have expanded their autonomous driving technology partnership; FCA became Waymo’s first OEM partner in 2016. Waymo will now work exclusively with FCA as its preferred partner for the development and testing of class 1-3 light commercial vehicles for goods movement for commercial delivery customers, including Waymo Via.

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The Brain-Implant Company Going for Neuralink’s Jugular

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It’s a company called Synchron , and it is quietly leading the race to bring a BCI implant to market. Then the company moved its operations to Brooklyn, N.Y., By June the company expects to submit its data to the U.S. This setup is considerably less sophisticated than the BCIs coming from other companies and academic groups.

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ExxonMobil predicts peak in light-duty vehicle liquid fuels ~2030, but ongoing role for oil in the mix

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At the same time, total miles traveled per year by cars, sport utility vehicles (SUVs) and light trucks will increase about 60%, reaching about 14 trillion in 2040. As personal mobility increases, average new-car fuel economy (including SUVs and light trucks) will improve as well, rising from about 30 miles per gallon (7.83

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Biggest Tech Companies Now Building the Biggest Data Pipes

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Traffic between data centers is thought to be growing faster than the per-person data consumption, which Facebook says increases 20 to 30 percent a year. Each bought one pair of fibers on the Pacific Light Cable stretching from Hong Kong to Los Angeles. Although the cable was soon laid, the U.S.

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Tesla-style Over-the-Air updates will save OEMs $1.5B: research

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ABI recognized Tesla as the “leader in this space” and notes that the company “has never required an in-person software update” to solve a vehicle recall. ” GM’s 2016 recall of 3.6 The company spent millions to fix this issue, and a software update could have saved GM time and money.

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Honda to show EV concept with AI emotion engine from joint project with Softbank

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The emotion engine is the focus of a joint research project with Softbank Corporation that Honda announced in July 2016 to apply the AI technology in mobility products. In June 2016, Softbank Robotics launched “Pepper”—the world’s first personal robot that can not only read emotions but have its own. Earlier post.)

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This Idea Wasn't All Wet: The Sensing Water-Saving Shower Head Debuts

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He imagined a shower head that would sense when the person showering moved out from under the stream of water. The shower head would then automatically turn the water off, turning it back on again when the person moved back into range. Oasense co-founder Ted Li assembles an early version of the company’s sensing shower head.

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