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Mercedes-Benz launches new private car-sharing scheme: Croove

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A new car-sharing platform from Mercedes-Benz will go online at the start of December. The peer-to-peer car-sharing platform is another example of a CASE strategy project that has advanced from idea to implementation. On average, a car is parked up for 23 hours a day. On average, a car is parked up for 23 hours a day.

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Frost & Sullivan video report summarizes key factors for and direction of future mobility systems

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Frost & Sullivan analysis discovered that every new car will be “connected” by 2014, either via an embedded or tethered platform, making cars the third most connected “devices” behind mobile phones and tablet computers. A life changing impact of connectivity will be the driverless car, and no one other than Google is leading it.

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Students Develop Low-Cost Wearable Device for the Visually Impaired

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The technology used in the device includes optical character recognition, machine learning, and Google application programming interfaces. The student team was able to take an idea and turn it into a working solution while working hand in hand with a community partner, the National Association for the Blind (NAB) in Karnataka, India.

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Meet Mr. Internet: Vint Cerf

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The two had been exchanging ideas in person and via email and reviewing the work of others who were trying to solve similar issues. The networks couldn’t be changed and couldn’t know that they were part of the Internet, because they already existed,” Cerf recalls recently in an interview at his office at Google, in Reston, Va.

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AI Doesn’t Have to Be This Way

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Open AI, taking a page from Facebook’s ‘move fast and break things’ code book, just dumped it all out. I believe hose tools could be used in a more decentralized way, rather than within the auspices of centralized big companies such as Microsoft, Google, Amazon, and Facebook. But that’s not the trajectory it’s going in right now.

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Your Life As A Digital Ghost

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Wong describes the new digital afterlife industry in a chapter of her new book from MIT Press, We the Data: Human Rights in the Digital Age. So your book takes on a much broader topic, the datafication of our daily lives and the human rights implications of that phenomenon. Wendy, thanks so much for joining me on Fixing the Future.

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Tesla owner implants a chip to unlock his car and more

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Brandon Dalaly, a Tesla owner, has a unique way of unlocking his car: with his hand. “The whole idea was that I would have my house key in my left hand and my car key in my right hand. If you go to your Google location history, it shows you step-by-step where you’ve been.” Credit: Brandon Dalaly.

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