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X PRIZE Foundation Announces Wendy Schmidt Oil Cleanup X CHALLENGE

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Diamandis together with Wendy Schmidt, who personally funded the $1.4 Wendy Schmidt is president of The Schmidt Family Foundation, Founder of the Foundation’s 11 th Hour Project and Climate Central, as well as Co-founder, with her husband Eric (CEO of Google), of the Schmidt Marine Science Research Institute. million prize purse.

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Volkswagen outlines a range of near-term technologies for reducing fuel consumption and emissions; stop-start 2.0, 10-speed DSG

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Compared to baseline figures for 2010, the Group wants to reduce energy and water consumption, waste generation and emissions (including CO 2 emissions) by 25% in all of its business areas. It is also easy to find addresses by Google search and integrate them into navigation. Progress has also been made in the area of personalization.

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Volkswagen showcases inductive charging w/ “power lift”, autonomous and semi-autonomous capabilities & gesture control at CES

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If a mapped charging station is difficult to access, does not support the required plug system, is defective or does not exist at all, this would lead to time being wasted. A person logs onto the system by spreading the fingers of a hand, preventing unintentional activation of a function with a hand movement. million colors.

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Finding The Wisest Ways To Global AI Regulation

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The heads of OpenAI and Google have both openly discussed the need for regulations. That includes the National AI Research Resource , which I have been personally passionate about for quite a few years. We’re seeing a lot of calls for regulation right now for artificial intelligence. Wald: Yeah. The third part of this is talent.

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New BMW 3 Series includes a new 4-cylinder TwinPower Turbo, 8-speed automatic and start-stop; ActiveHybrid 3 model in 2012

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The new BMW 3 Series Sedan is equipped as standard with an Auto Start-Stop function, which automatically switches off the engine during short stops at traffic lights or in stationary traffic, so as not to waste fuel. In addition, passengers can access their personal music library on their smartphone or music player inside the car.

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

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Green Car Congress attended the Renewable Energy Finance Forum - Wall Street (REFF-Wall Street) conference (23-24 June) sponsored by Euromoney Energy Events and the American Council on Renewable Energy (ACORE). The sponsor is the person who is responsible for the overall execution and has the greatest risk/reward. by Bill Cooke.

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GM, Segway partner on two-wheel city vehicle | Green Tech - CNET News

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The prototype vehicle, called Project PUMA (Personal Urban Mobility and Accessibility), is designed to ease congestion and pollution problems in cities. It is based on the Segway Personal Transporter but holds two people, instead of one, and lets them sit, instead of stand. You could even call it Personal On-demand Driving.

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