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Toyota and Google Cloud partner to bring AI-powered speech services to Toyota and Lexus vehicles without the cloud

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Customers can now experience the first results of the partnership in the latest generation Toyota Audio Multimedia and Lexus Interface infotainment systems, including in 2023 models such as the Toyota Corolla family, Tundra and Sequoia and Lexus NX, RX and all-electric RZ. Google’s Speech On-Device Technology.

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Tesla teases crazy new graffiti wrap for Cybertruck

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Then, Tesla started poking fun at other automakers by dressing up the Cybertruck in wraps that resembled rival pickups, like the F-150 from Ford and the Toyota Tundra. Initially, Tesla rolled out some different camouflage designs that came in colors like white and black , black and blue , and black and grey.

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Researchers find that the global carbon pool in seagrass beds is as much as 19.9B metric tons

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The paper, “Seagrass Ecosystems as a Globally Significant Carbon Stock,” is the first global analysis of carbon stored in seagrasses. Using only data from sites for which full inventories exist, we estimate that, globally, seagrass ecosystems could store as much as 19.9?Pg Apostolaki, Gary A.

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Toyota investing $1B in new TNGA plant in Mexico, realigning North American manufacturing; expansion in Guangzhou

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Toyota is embarking on a multi-year plan to realign its manufacturing operations in North America in support of the Toyota New Global Architecture (TNGA) ( earlier post ), a comprehensive approach to achieving sustainable growth by making ever-better vehicles more efficiently. It will have the capacity to produce 200,000 units annually.

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Researchers Predict Permafrost Thaw Will Intensify Climate Change More Quickly Than Previously Thought; Melting of Greenland Icesheet Could Drive More Water Than Previously Thought to North American Northeast

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To put this in a global context, if the average global temperature continues to rise, current calculations predict that positive feedback from permafrost thaw could annually add as much carbon to the atmosphere as another significant source, land use change. Vogel et al.

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Our EV warrior

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Hall, a global technologist with three decades of research and development leadership for Hewlett Packard, has many goals when it comes to expanding the use of EVs, including addressing the inequity between wealthier homeowners and those living in apartments, condos, or even older homes. “So This is a great achievement, but it’s not enough.”

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The Quest for a DNA Data Drive

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Prior projections for data storage requirements estimated a global need for about 12 million petabytes of capacity by 2030. Organizations around the world are already taking the first steps toward building a DNA drive that can both write and read DNA data. But current practices are building fragility into the storage ecosystem.

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