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

Green Car Congress

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 three-dimensional image is compared with a data record stored in the system. With the helmet removed, the face is scanned three-dimensionally and biometrically.

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Forget JPEG, How Would a Person Compress a Picture?

Cars That Think

We live in an age in which it's cheap to take photos but will eventually be costly to store them en masse, as backup services set limits and begin charging for overages. And we love to share our photos, so we end up storing them in multiple places. Was it not the same person because the friend's jaw was more angular?

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Zepto in talks for USD 300 mn raise at USD 2.5-3 bn valuation – ET Auto

Baua Electric

The new fundraise plan and contours will be discussed in a board meeting later this month,” a person aware of the matter said. They (Zepto) are definitely exploring a new round and have big plans in terms of total raise. Blinkit has over 450 dark stores across 25 cities while the same for Swiggy Instamart would be over 500.

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Remembering Data Compression Pioneer K. R. Rao

Cars That Think

DCT technology reduces the amount of data required to display, store, and transmit images by identifying parts of the image that contain significant amounts of energy—the ones that are most important to retaining image quality. HDTV would not have been possible without the research accomplished by K.R. I think that’s his legacy.”.

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Sandia team puts power into local grid with supercritical CO2 closed-loop Brayton-cycle turbine

Green Car Congress

Maybe it’s just a pontoon bridge, but it’s definitely a bridge. Any person who controls an electrical grid is very cautious about what you sync to their grid, because you could disrupt the grid. It may not sound super significant, but it was quite a path to get here. Now that we can get across the river, we can get a lot more going.

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“Charging Station” — Is That the Location or the “Charger”?

EV Adoption

Depending on the person, each of us brings different backgrounds and context to this phrase creating confusion and a lack of clarity in the market. Secondly, most modern sites that sell gasoline (convenience stores, gas stations, warehouse stores like CostCo and Sam’s Club, supermarkets like Safeway) may have from 12 to 20 individual pumps.

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Tesla FSD Beta V9 handles roundabouts and blind turns in first real-world tests

Teslarati

A look at a video posted of the Model S owner’s drive from his home to a Tesla store showed FSD Beta V9 handling several roundabouts confidently and without any difficulties. There are so many talented engineers on Autopilot/AI team & they decide for themselves what to work on. Kinda like Valve.

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