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Up close and personal with Volkswagen’s e-Golf carbon offset project: Garcia River Forest

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In 2014, Volkswagen of America announced that starting with the launch of the zero-tailpipe emissions battery-electric 2015 e-Golf ( earlier post ), it would invest in projects to offset the carbon emissions created from the e-Golf on a full lifecycle basis: production, distribution and up to approximately 36,000 miles (57,936 km) of driving.

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BMW Group sets out code of ethics for the use of artificial intelligence

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The BMW Group already uses AI throughout the value chain to generate added value for customers, products, employees and processes. And image processing AI relieves both the customer with driver assistance systems from monotonous driving tasks and employees in production from monotonous processing steps. AI in requirements management.

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The Creepy New Digital Afterlife Industry

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You decide, after some months of interacting with the 4evru’s version of your father, that while you are somewhat glad to learn who your father truly was, you’re mourning the loss of the person you thought you knew. Consider that Microsoft has a patent for creating a conversational chatbot of a specific person using their “social data.”

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Students Develop Low-Cost Wearable Device for the Visually Impaired

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If the device can’t read text because the user isn’t holding the book or other document correctly, OurVision verbally notifies the user the alignment is off. In addition, it assists the person in navigating the surroundings by describing nearby objects and their distance from the user. The assistive device works with or without Wi-Fi.

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Huawei, JAC partner to target ultra-luxury pure electric vehicle market, report says

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"JAC is already learning from Huawei's management model, and even the vehicle development is following the IPD process," the person familiar with the matter said. billion yuan and is expected to be completed early next year, according to a previous tender document.

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Steps Toward Health Data Standards for Wearables

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Fitness trackers and smartwatches now regularly gather personal health data like heart rate and steps taken per day. A proliferation of studies suggest this information can lead to productive health outcomes. Bridging the gap between personal tech and clinical practice, however, is still a real challenge.

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Who Really Invented the Thumb Drive?

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That device, now known by a variety of names—including memory stick, USB stick, flash drive, as well as thumb drive—changed the way computer files are stored and transferred. Good-bye, floppy disk Before the invention of the thumb drive, computer users stored and transported their files using floppy disks. It was called the ThumbDrive.

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