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Ford contributes AppLink to open-source GENIVI Alliance

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Along with the announcement of the industry-first open mobile app developer program at the 2013 International CES this past January, Ford announced the intention to take further steps to help developers be successful working with the automotive industry, an emerging growth area for app integration. Earlier post.).

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Tony Fadell: The Nest Thermostat Disrupted My Life

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But no matter where we went, we could not escape one thing: the goddamn thermostat. Then, magically, Matt Rogers, who’d been one of the first interns on the iPod project, reached out to me. Nest Gets Googled. In 2014, Google bought Nest for $3.2 In 2016 Google decided to sell Nest, so I left the company.

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Are Homemade CPUs Alibaba’s Bid For Independence?

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This means other companies can use it in their own processor designs—and escape architecture license fees. Consultant Gwennap suggests that Alibaba's Arm and RISC-V efforts are experiments more than commercial endeavors, noting that Alibaba is still using x86 Intel chips for the vast majority of its internal use.

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NASA’s New Shortcut to Fusion Power

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Setting aside differences in design particulars, each attempts the near-impossible: Heat a gas enough for it to become a plasma and magnetically squeeze it enough to ignite fusion—all without letting the plasma escape. Inertial-confinement fusion devices followed in the 1970s. We’re not alone in these endeavors. Researchers at.

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How to Get a Plug-In Hybrid

Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

Conversions are mostly for the Prius, with a few for the Ford Escape/Mercury Mariner hybrid SUVs. The easiest conversions are for 2004-2008 Prius (not 2001-2003 Prius) and the Ford Escape/Mercury Mariner Hybrid. Both Toyota and Ford are now producing a few prototype conversions of their own Priuses and Escapes for research purposes.)

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50 Years Later, We’re Still Living in the Xerox Alto’s World

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I’m using a word processor with the core features and functions of Microsoft Word, Google Docs, or LibreOffice’s Writer, along with an email client that could be mistaken for a simplified version of Apple Mail, Microsoft Outlook, or Mozilla Thunderbird. These two PARC researchers also wanted to build a small single-user computer.

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Where Plug-In Hybrid Conversions (mostly Priuses) Are

Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

Our PRIUS+ Project Photos PHEV Resources Global Warming Take Action News and Events Contact Us Where Plug-In Hybrid Conversions (mostly Priuses) Are This is a mirror of the map at Googles RechargeIt site (including icons for YouTube videos on both PHEVs and EVs). Unless otherwise noted, all are Prius. Jim Tech Ltd. Contact Roger Kuhlman, PE.

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