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Groupe Renault and Nissan sign exclusive alliance deal with Waymo to explore driverless mobility services in France and Japan

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The agreement is designed to bring together the strengths of each party and expand expertise by assessing market opportunities, working together to research commercial, legal and regulatory issues related to driverless transportation-as-a-service offerings in France and Japan.

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Wall Street Journal stands by Elon Musk affair report: “We are confident in our sourcing”

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The Wall Street Journal is standing by its allegations that Elon Musk had an affair with Google co-founder Sergey Brin’s former wife Nicole Shanahan. Musk has since publicly denied the story , calling it “bs” and sharing a recent photo he had with the Google co-founder to show that he and Brin were still friends. .

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Google’s technology campaign for autonomous driving

Green Car Congress

Search engine giant Google is looking for partners within in the auto industry to help launch one of the most significant applications of artificial technology over the next several years, the self-driving car. Google believes that a future state with having computers drive cars can “ remove a gigantic chunk ” of the US fatalities.

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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. This highly detailed mechanical drawing of an Edison lamp appeared in Latimer’s 1890 book “Incandescent Electric Lighting.”

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Timnit Gebru Is Building a Slow AI Movement

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Timnit Gebru was a well-known scholar in the AI ethics community long before she got fired by Google in December 2020—but that messy and dramatic incident brought a new level of attention to her work. Spatial apartheid is legally over. Since then, Gebru has been staffing up. Timnit Gebru and Alex Hanna on. Timnit Gebru: Yes.

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

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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.

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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. Data is going to travel along that edge at the speed of light," said a former US official involved with the issue. Washington embarked on an intense campaign to block Huawei, and Ms. So the U.S.

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