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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. App-based Croove pairs up private vehicle owners and hirers.

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BMW Group Launches car sharing service “ReachNow” in Seattle

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Following a successful pilot program, BMW Group has launched ReachNow, a free-floating premium car sharing service, in Seattle. ReachNow is designed to provide drivers with an experience that is as convenient as owning a car. Car sharing for longer rentals. Car sharing for residential and corporate groups.

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Just Calm Down About GPT-4 Already

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Brooks, who is now working on his third robotics startup, Robust.AI , has written hundreds of articles and half a dozen books and was featured in the motion picture Fast, Cheap & Out of Control. When are we going to have full (level-5) self-driving cars? Or, how far can a person throw a Frisbee? Can they throw it 10 miles?

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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. EPICS in IEEE The ability to read under any condition and navigate surroundings OurVision can read text out loud from books and periodicals as well as billboards, posters, and traffic signs.

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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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The Rise and Fall of 3M’s Floppy Disk

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If you ask the average person what the company 3M does, odds are if they have a few gray hairs hanging out on their scalp, they might say that the company makes floppy disks. As author David Morton noted in his 2006 book Sound Recording: The Life Story of a Technology , 3M was one of the best-suited companies on the market to help Brush out.

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Lewis H. Latimer: A Life of Lightbulb Moments

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Latimer literally wrote the book on electric lighting at Edison’s urging: Incandescent Electric Lighting: A Practical Description of the Edison System was published in 1890 by the Van Nostrand Company, a leading publisher of trade, technical, and scientific books in the 19th century. Supreme Court, in the 1857 Dred Scott v.

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