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Lucid Motors chooses Mobileye as partner for autonomous vehicle technology

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Projection of the map data; on the right side the lanes are mapped onto Google Earth. The VMP is a VLIW SIMD processor, with cheap and flexible memory access, provides hardware support for operations common to computer vision applications and is well-suited to multi-core scenarios. The car is driving based on the map alone.

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Who Really Invented the Thumb Drive?

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Computer users badly needed a cheap, high-capacity, reliable, portable storage device. 7 billion In 2021, global sales of thumb drives from all manufacturers surpassed $7 billion, a number that is expected to rise to more than $10 billion by 2028. Flash memory became cheap and robust enough for consumer use by 1995.

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Volvo XC40 Recharge and Polestar 2: EV cousins offer different takes on “premium”

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It’s called the XC40 Recharge, and the earliest versions aren’t cheap, priced from about $55,000 including delivery. Android running the dashboard means Google Assistant, Google Maps, Google Play Store, and more, are instantly available and work the way you already use them. Until now, it’s had no plug-in option.

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IEEE Spectrum’s Top Telecom Stories of 2023

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Cerf was instrumental in the early days of the Internet, including co-creating much of the infrastructure that the global network relies on to this day. Google researchers developed a solution for quantum-safe security keys, the physical external devices that function as an alternative to passwords.

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Europe/US team: transitioning to a low-carbon world will create new rivalries, winners and losers

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This scenario assumes a full global consensus for action on climate change. A wave of green globalization allows all countries to share in the benefits of decarbonization. Petro-states are compensated to transition smoothly to a sustainable economy, avoiding a last-ditch attempt to flood the world with cheap oil and gas.

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Report from the REFF-Wall Street; Themes in Renewable Energy Finance

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Renewables account for approximately 10-15% of the global energy infrastructure investment and according to New Energy Finance renewables have been hit hard by the global recession with a 47% in Q1 2009 vs. Q1 2008 ($13.3 The US is in a race for global dominance in the new energy economy with China. Billion vs. $28.3

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Bezos Bucks? Get Ready for Corporate Digital Currency

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dollars (or other currencies, as Amazon is a global business) on demand. Part of the pitch for a private digital currency could be offering people in these communities access to cheap, secure financial services. Google also has a huge base of both consumer and business users. Keeping its entire reserve in U.S.