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Google and IEEE launch $1M challenge for downsized inverters

Green Car Congress

Google and the IEEE have launched the Littlebox Challenge—an open competition to design and build a small kW-scale inverter with the highest power density (of at least 50 W/in 3 , or 3.05 Google and IEEE are emphasizing size reduction in their challenge, without targeting a specific application area such as automotive.

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Forget JPEG, How Would a Person Compress a Picture?

Cars That Think

The developers of recent compressors like Google's Guetzli encoder, a JPEG compressor that runs far slower but produces smaller files than traditional JPEG tools, tout the fact that these algorithms consider crucial aspects of human visual perception such as the differences in how the eye perceives specific colors or patterns.

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Ford working with Google Prediction API to enable vehicles independently to change behavior for optimal driveability and fuel efficiency

Green Car Congress

Prototype screen shot of Ford’s Google Cloud Prediction. Ford researchers are applying Google’s Prediction API to more than two years of their own predictive driver behavior research and analysis in an effort to enable vehicles independently to change how they perform to deliver optimal driveability and fuel efficiency.

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When AI Unplugs, All Bets Are Off

Cars That Think

Personalized, private AI so seamless you might forget it’s “AI” at all. Meanwhile, Google has scrambled to deliver its own chatbot, Bard, which launched in March; Amazon announced a $4 billion investment in Anthropic , creator of ChatGPT competitor Claude, in September. 2023 was a banner year for AI in the cloud.

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Tesla CEO Elon Musk to speak at Code Conference 2021

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The three-day event has a schedule full of events for attendees, who will finally be able to rejoin the event in person following the COVID-19 pandemic. The event is where influencers from several different sectors gather for in-depth, unscripted conversations about the impact of digital technology on our lives and businesses.

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Google Claims Android Auto Will Become Safer and Smarter After Update

The Truth About Cars

Google has announced plans to update Android Auto to reduce the time drivers are required to look at screens. While Google hasn’t gotten overly specific, it has said it wants to place an emphasis on improving safety. Let’s say someone drops& a pin in a group conversation. Google probably understands this.

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Your Life As A Digital Ghost

Cars That Think

And I think this is what we’ll talk about a little bit in today’s conversation in the sense that there’s no real way to know where data go once they’re created about you. But there are also companies that try to either create persons out of data, so to speak, or there are companies that replicate a living person who has died.