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Ford working with Google Prediction API to enable vehicles independently to change behavior for optimal driveability and fuel efficiency

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Prototype screen shot of Ford’s Google Cloud Prediction. Ford researchers are applying Google’s Prediction API to more than two years of their own predictive driver behavior research and analysis in an effort to enable vehicles independently to change how they perform to deliver optimal driveability and fuel efficiency.

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Google cracks down on unofficial congestion charge websites

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Google is to remove adverts for unofficial congestion charge websites, after Transport for London (TfL) revealed how such websites were often providing misleading or entirely non-existent services. An estimated 1,000 people per day have been paying up to £8 extra for fictional ‘additional services[.]. Green credentials Editor Pick'

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Ford demonstrating cloud-based technology to optimize plug-in powertrain efficiency at ITS World Congress

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At the Google I/O conference in May, Ford introduced its research and innovation into using the cloud to predict driver behavior in order to optimize vehicle control systems and improve vehicle performance attributes such as fuel or hybrid-electric efficiency. Cities such as London, Berlin and Stockholm already have such zones.

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Meet Mr. Internet: Vint Cerf

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“The networks couldn’t be changed and couldn’t know that they were part of the Internet, because they already existed,” Cerf recalls recently in an interview at his office at Google, in Reston, Va. and University College London. So he sketched in another set of computers—gateways—that would know about other networks. 1970 and Ph.D.

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Video Friday: Robot Soccer Finals

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RSL ] ICRA 2023 is in London! Geoff joins Pieter Abbeel in our two-part season finale for a wide-ranging discussion inspired by insights gleaned from Hinton’s journey from academia to Google Brain. The European Robocup Finals 2022, featuring Tech United vs VDL Robotsports. The video is recorded in Perugia Italy. [ Robot Brains ].

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Zinnov: automotive witnessing highest disruption among all industries; ~$6B invested in start-ups in FY 2015

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Tech Mafia—Google, Apple have invested billions of dollars in user experience. New technologies such as Autonomous, AI, Electric have reached application maturity. New OEMs such as Tesla, Next EV have changed the way cars are conceived, built and sold. Furthermore, leading automotive companies such as Toyota, Ford, Honda, BMW etc.,

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Competing Visions Underpin China’s Quantum Computer Race

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Like their competitors IBM , Google , Honeywell , and D-Wave , both Chinese companies profess to be developing "full stack" quantum businesses, offering access to quantum computing through the cloud coupled with their own suite of algorithms, software, and consulting services. We can build a qubit.

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