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Safer and Self-Driving Cars Now on Roads

Clean Fleet Report

This article was written more than 10 years ago, when the forecasts were we would have personal and public robotaxis galore. Advanced technology, prototype vehicles, and business plans are being developed by Google, car sharing services like Car2Go (Daimler), Uber, automakers, network providers, software and technology suppliers.

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Lewis H. Latimer: A Life of Lightbulb Moments

Cars That Think

Emblematic of the hope, faith, perseverance, and drive to overcome systemic legal and social barriers the song encapsulates is the life of self-taught technical genius Lewis H. Sandford decision , ruled that an enslaved person was not made free by entering a state whose laws forbid slavery.

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A Waymo robotaxi hit a cyclist in San Francisco – here’s what happened

Baua Electric

Electrek’s Take We don’t have particulars yet about why the vehicle didn’t register the cyclist, who presumably was legally traversing the intersection and minding their business before getting creepily rammed by a driverless car. Photo credit: Waymo To reduce your carbon footprint and live more sustainably, consider going solar.

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Who Really Invented the Thumb Drive?

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The gadget, roughly the size of a pack of chewing gum, held 8 megabytes of data and required no external power source, drawing power directly from a computer when connected. The dot-com boom of 1995 to 2000 further increased demand for personal computing gear. It was called the ThumbDrive. MB of data.

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Advocating electric in the heartland

Electric Auto Association

With the support of the Sierra Club and other organizations, the ordinance was challenged legally and eventually landed in the Kansas Supreme Court where it was ruled illegal last April. “It If someone googled me, they’d think I was some kind of radical environmentalist.” I’m sure there’s a big red flag on my file,” he said. “If

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How Police Exploited the Capitol Riot’s Digital Records

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One of these warrants, served on Google and covering the interior of the Capitol, showed that a device associated with the Gmail account in question entered the Senate Wing door at 2:18 p.m. Connecting that Gmail account to a phone number and then to its owner, Paul Lovley of Halethorpe, Md., on 6 January.

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A Small Startup Fights Rare Diseases With Big Data

Cars That Think

A Google search didn't yield an answer to that question. In fact, it's rare enough that Google didn't autocomplete the word even with 15 of its 19 letters typed in. What's the connection between Hindu mythology and contemporary data analytics? I don't know. Paradoxically, big data has the potential to change that.