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Ford logs strongest-ever calendar year start for SUVs in US; sales bolstered by women and Millenials

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Explorer sales rose 18% last month over February 2015; Explorer is Ford’s best-selling SUV with millennial buyers ages 25 to 34, and the best-selling midsize SUV with women, according to Ford analysis of the most recent personal new vehicle registrations in the US from IHS Automotive.

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GM planning to “own” the customer relationship beyond the vehicle; autonomous Volts, car sharing and fuel cells

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General Motors CEO Mary Barra and her leadership team outlined the company’s plans to capitalize on the future of personal mobility by owning the customer relationship beyond the vehicle, building upon nearly two decades of connectivity leadership. —Mary Barra. They also outlined alternative transportation initiatives GM is exploring.

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Why Are We Still Doing What Simon Says?

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After a few more tweaks—including making the plastic case round and adding three levels of difficulty— Simon was launched in May 1978 at Studio 54 in New York City. In 1979, for example, Milton Bradley released Super Simon , a two-player game that tested which person could repeat the sequence faster.

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Virtual Reality Helps Students Improve Their Math Literacy

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She also served in executive positions in Boston public schools , New York City public schools , and Success Academy charter schools, also in New York City. Traveling and having a personal connection to Prisms VR customers,” she says, “has been really valuable in designing and updating the modules.”

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Lotfi Zadeh and the Birth of Fuzzy Logic

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As a child, Zadeh was surrounded by governesses and tutors, while as a young adult, he had a personal servant. New York City, summer of 1944 Patents One U.S. By the time Zadeh received his master’s degree in 1946, his parents had moved from Tehran to New York City. Zadeh Date of Birth Feb.

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How to make heavy-duty electric trucks work in practice

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Among its first announced customers, back in December 2017, was Pepsi, which reserved 100 of the trucks and plans to use them in the California regions of Modesto and Sacramento. It’s crucial that any operator have at least one person charged with the responsibility of coordinating all aspects of adding electric trucks to a fleet.

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Worldwide Campaign for Neurorights Notches Its First Win

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And what do the squiggly patterns of electrical activity that can be recorded from a person’s brain reveal about them? Rafael Yuste , cofounder of the NeuroRights Foundation , in New York City, believes that the technology is forcing such questions upon us. The right to personal identity. The 5 Neurorights.

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