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Harley-Davidson’s Serial 1 launches second generation electric bikes in Google partnership

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It’s been over two years since Harley-Davidson spun off Serial 1 as its quasi-independent electric bicycle company. The first generation bikes were met with nearly universal acclaim for their sleek design and high-quality manufacturing.

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Volkswagen Group, Google partnering on quantum computing; traffic optimization, batteries, AI

Green Car Congress

The Volkswagen Group and Google will partner on research in the field of quantum computing. The two companies will explore the utilization of quantum computers together, with aims to build up specialist knowledge and to carry out practically oriented research. They will carry out this work using Google universal quantum computers.

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FCA and Google collaborate on a Uconnect system concept powered by Android OS

Green Car Congress

FCA is collaborating with Google on next-generation connected car systems enabled by the power of an open platform and the ecosystem of the Android open-source operating system. At CES 2017 this week, FCA and Google will demonstrate a seamless integration of the Uconnect 8.4-inch

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The Engineer Behind Samsung’s Speech Recognition Software

Cars That Think

Every time you use your voice to generate a message on a Samsung Galaxy mobile phone or activate a Google Home device, you’re using tools Chanwoo Kim helped develop. He recently left Samsung to continue his work in the field at Korea University , in Seoul, leading the school’s speech and language processing laboratory.

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Here Are 6 Actual Uses for Near-Term Quantum Computers

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On 4 March, Google and XPrize announced a US $5 million prize to anyone who comes up with use cases for quantum computers. If that sounds like an admission that use cases don’t already exist, it isn’t, says Ryan Babbush, head of quantum algorithms at Google. “We How can we use quantum computers to tackle the world’s big problems?”

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Boeing and Kitty Hawk form strategic partnership on electric urban air mobility

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Working with a company like Kitty Hawk brings us closer to our goal of safely advancing the future of mobility. The company gets its name from the beaches of Kitty Hawk, North Carolina where the Wright Brothers took flight for the first time in 1903. Kitty Hawk Corp., The agreement with Kitty Hawk Corp.

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Pioneer of Google’s Data Centers Dies at 58

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Luiz André Barroso Data center pioneer Senior member, 59; died 16 September An engineer at Google for more than 20 years, Barroso is credited with designing the company’s warehouse-size data centers. in computer engineering in 1996 from the University of Southern California. He then moved to Los Angeles, where he earned a Ph.D.

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