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Cadillac reveals CELESTIQ show car

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Conceived to lead Cadillac’s electric future and inspired by the brand’s 120-year heritage, it serves as a touchstone for the Cadillac design and engineering teams, who continue to develop CELESTIQ as it moves closer to production. Availability for the production version of CELESTIQ will be announced at a later date.

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ASX and Spirit AeroSystems partner to develop affordable eVTOL aircraft for mass production

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Airspace Experience Technologies ( ASX ), an aviation technology start-up, and Spirit AeroSystems, a global aircraft design and manufacturing company, have signed a memorandum of understanding and a definitive agreement to cooperate on creation of affordable, certified all-electric, vertical take-off and landing (eVTOL) aircraft.

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Forget JPEG, How Would a Person Compress a Picture?

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But, as engineers, we are trained to ask if we can do better. For decades, scientists and engineers have attempted to distill aspects of human visual perception into better ways of computing the loss function. But when we push the compression envelope further, artifacts emerge, including blurring, blockiness, and staircase-like bands.

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Two Tesla execs to leave amid Musk’s “hardcore” cost and workforce reduction: report

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It appears that Tesla is definitely being led by a “wartime CEO” once more. Earlier this month, former SVP of Powertrain and Energy Engineering Drew Baglino and Vice President for Public Policy and Business Development Rohan Patel announced that they were leaving Tesla.

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IEEE’s Honor Society Expands to More Countries

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The IEEE–Eta Kappa Nu honor society for engineers celebrates its 120th anniversary this year. Among them are 23 former IEEE presidents as well as a who’s who of engineering leaders and technology pioneers including GM Chief Executive Mary Barra , Google founding CEO Larry Page , and Advanced Micro Devices CEO Lisa Su.

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Ford Reaches Definitive Agreement to Sell Volvo Cars and Related Assets to Geely

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Ford Motor Company has entered into a definitive agreement to sell Volvo Car Corporation and related assets to Zhejiang Geely Holding Group Company Limited. I want to make a personal statement. Click to enlarge. It will have strategic independence, and we are determined to preserve the distinct identity of the Volvo brand.

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BMW Motorrad presents BMW iFace; anti-theft face and eye recognition system

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The system offers facial recognition of the rider’s face on the one hand and also an iris-cornea comparison of the eyes for definite identification on the other. This is carried out by means of stripe projection, a technology that has been used for many years for example in reverse engineering.

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