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A First: An AI System Has Been Named An Inventor

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The patent success in South Africa was thanks to Thaler’s attorney, Ryan Abbott. He spoke about the decision by South Africa during the Artificial Intelligence and the Law virtual event held in September by the IEEE student branch at the University of South Florida , in Tampa. Charles, Mo.

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Shell, Gordon Murray and Osamu Goto to develop new ultra-compact ICE city car

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Initiated by Shell, the collaboration, which is called Project M, brings together Shell’s Lubricant’s Technology Team, The Gordon Murray Design Group and Goto’s engine specialist company Geo Technology. l/100 km) over the iconic Brighton-London course with a low friction engine lubricant playing a significant part in this figure.

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Daimler & Renault-Nissan Alliance expand cooperation to 1-ton pickup trucks

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The pickup will feature a double cab and will be targeted both at personal-use and commercial customers. The primary target markets for the truck are Europe, Australia, South Africa and Latin America. A high parts localization rate is expected to expand the supply bases in Spain and Argentina significantly.

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Climate Change #Liar-Deniers Are The New Racists

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Your Greenius opines that today’s oil, coal and gas companies are the modern equivalent of pre civil war plantation owners raking in massive profits off the backs of black slaves and treating them worse than the slave owners in Jhango Unchained did. Maybe because they never have or maybe because they believe it’s worth it.

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TomTom extends coverage of real-time traffic products for congestion reduction

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The other countries currently covered are Austria, Belgium, France, Germany, Ireland, Italy, the Netherlands, New Zealand, Portugal, South Africa, Spain, Switzerland, the United Kingdom and the United States. TomTom as a company has evolved with a combination of GPS and mapping. That gives us a unique inroad.

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Ford launches innovate mobility challenge series

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The worldwide challenges kicked off in Lisbon, Portugal; Los Angeles, United States; and Mumbai, India; before moving on to Delhi and the Chennai region in India; Shanghai, China; Johannesburg, South Africa; and a countrywide challenge in Argentina. Venkatesh Prasad, senior technical leader, Open Innovation, Ford Motor Company.

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Development of autonomous cars is steadily progressing with AI as an accelerator, says Sven Lanwer, XC expert from Bosch – ET Auto

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It depends on the use case and on your personal preference. Q: There are a lot of use cases, say, from taxi or ride sharing by companies like Uber or Lyft, where there are problems of driver shortage. Maybe driverless cars would work well in other parts of the world. So, it is very individual.

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