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2023 Volvo V60 Cross Country Review – Quiet Luxury

The Truth About Cars

The vertical infotainment screen looks good, though the learning curve for its use is a bit steep, especially if you aren’t steeped in the Google ecosystem. Speaking of price points, this is not a cheap car. The materials are generally nice and price-point-appropriate. To that end, the standard features include a 12.3-inch

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Tony Fadell: The Nest Thermostat Disrupted My Life

Cars That Think

But the technology that I needed to make it happen—reliable low-cost communications, cheap screens and processors—didn’t exist yet. A year later we decided to build a new, superefficient house in Tahoe. The good news is that a lawsuit means you’ve officially arrived. Nest Gets Googled. In 2014, Google bought Nest for $3.2

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Opinion: The Bentley Crash in New York is Scrambling Brains

The Truth About Cars

We do know, despite a breathless and apparently unsourced Fox News report, that it wasn’t a terrorist attack. Never mind that perhaps some of the accidents linked were perhaps the same ones being covered by multiple news outlets. But it seems a strange news hook to peg an unfocused, factually-challenged anti-speed screed on.

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Revolutionizing rider safety: The protective jacket every e-biker should consider

Baua Electric

And yes, I know about degloving accidents (please don’t google that). You’d never know all of these armor pads are hidden in this shirt, not to mention the abrasion-resist aramid fibers Of course this stuff doesn’t come cheap, and compared to a distressed denim jacket from Target, the prices are significant.

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Rental Review: 2023 Toyota Corolla LE, Aged Basic Transportation

The Truth About Cars

Although it looks cheap, the feel of the door handle is more premium than you might expect. Outside the LE there’s a constant reminder of base trim via some very cheap-looking plastic wheel covers. Worth reporting: Android Auto sometimes refused to connect to a phone (Google Pixel 6a). Not a big negative, but worth a mention.

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Forget JPEG, How Would a Person Compress a Picture?

Cars That Think

We live in an age in which it's cheap to take photos but will eventually be costly to store them en masse, as backup services set limits and begin charging for overages. This is good news, because our scheme resulted in extraordinarily large compression ratios. Why would I bother to do that, you ask? That, however, isn't really true.

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

Green Car Congress

Other than the good news on oil consumption, very little was said in regards to transportation fuels. The US is in a race for global dominance in the new energy economy with China. As an investor, I’m not choosing sides, and the good news is the whole world will win with the innovation it will drive. Neil Auerbach.

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