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Hyundai upgrading Bluelink connected car services technology; Connected Routing, Last Mile Navigation

Green Car Congress

The user can then choose from either Augmented Reality guidance or Google Maps, and is guided for a range of between 200 metres and two kilometers on their smartphone. With the new User Profile feature, drivers can install up to two main accounts and one guest account, and upload a profile picture via the Bluelink app. User Profile.

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A Waymo robotaxi hit a cyclist in San Francisco – here’s what happened

Baua Electric

Electrek’s Take We don’t have particulars yet about why the vehicle didn’t register the cyclist, who presumably was legally traversing the intersection and minding their business before getting creepily rammed by a driverless car. Photo credit: Waymo To reduce your carbon footprint and live more sustainably, consider going solar.

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An Engineer Who Keeps Meta’s AI infrastructure Humming

Cars That Think

In January, Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg announced that by the end of this year, the company will have installed 350,000 Nvidia GPUs —the specialized computer chips used to train AI models—to power its AI research. Making breakthroughs in artificial intelligence these days requires huge amounts of computing power.

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How the Huawei Fight is Changing the Face of 5G

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Huawei has said it would not comply with such a request and believes that it cannot be legally forced to do so. With US companies barred from doing business with Huawei, Google could no longer license its Android operating system—the operating system that runs most of the world's phones—to Huawei. So the U.S.

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Lewis H. Latimer: A Life of Lightbulb Moments

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Emblematic of the hope, faith, perseverance, and drive to overcome systemic legal and social barriers the song encapsulates is the life of self-taught technical genius Lewis H. So, he was a natural choice when Edison General Electric’s legal department was looking for someone to speak for the company in a spate of patent interference cases.

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Advocating electric in the heartland

Electric Auto Association

With the support of the Sierra Club and other organizations, the ordinance was challenged legally and eventually landed in the Kansas Supreme Court where it was ruled illegal last April. “It If someone googled me, they’d think I was some kind of radical environmentalist.” I’m sure there’s a big red flag on my file,” he said. “If

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Europe Expands Virtual Borders To Thwart Migrants

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If it were legal to deliver rescued migrants to Libya, it would be as cheap as sending rescue boats a few extra kilometers south instead of east. Meanwhile, legal scholars and civil-society groups are asking whether a hands-off border can really keep Europe’s hands clean. The main reason is because the E.U. million people.

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