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The Engineer Behind Samsung’s Speech Recognition Software

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Every time you use your voice to generate a message on a Samsung Galaxy mobile phone or activate a Google Home device, you’re using tools Chanwoo Kim helped develop. The most rewarding part of my career is helping to develop technologies that my friends and family members use and enjoy,” Kim says.

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Tesla will have ‘good news’ in Mexico, foreign minister teases

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The company has been rumored to be looking for suitable land in Canada, South Korea, Indonesia, and Mexico for some time. The company said it would discuss its Master Plan Part 3, scaling to “extreme size,” and information regarding SpaceX and the Boring Company. Mexico emerged as the front-runner several months ago.

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Who Really Invented the Thumb Drive?

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The thumb drive was all that—and more. ”—Henn Tan, as told to the Straits Times Many of these electronics products, including the chips in them, were produced in Asia, including Hong Kong, Indonesia, Malaysia, South Korea, Taiwan, Thailand—and Singapore—under the OEM system. His son, Wayne Tan, continues as Trek’s deputy chairman.

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Car News: 2024 Consumer Electronics Show

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CES 2024 was no different with several concept and new vehicle reveals, and technological advancements that will be part of new cars in the coming years. Timing: PVB production is in South Korea with the North America on-sale date to be announced. The PV5 should be the first to be released.

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Video Friday: Spot Tripping

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IEEE RO-MAN 2023 : 28–31 August 2023, BUSAN, SOUTH KOREA IROS 2023 : 1–5 October 2023, DETROIT CLAWAR 2023 : 2–4 October 2023, FLORIANOPOLIS, BRAZIL Humanoids 2023 : 12–14 December 2023, AUSTIN, TEXAS Enjoy today’s videos! We also post a weekly calendar of upcoming robotics events for the next few months.

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First Drive: 2016 Hyundai Sonata PHEV and HEV

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Sonata Plug-in Hybrid will be built at the Asan, South Korea plant and will go on sale in select markets later this Fall. Plus, users can search for points of interest using Google with voice or text and have the directions when they start their Sonata Plug-in Hybrid. km) of all electric range and a 9.8 Earlier post.).

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The Chip Shortage, Giant Chips, and the Future of Moore’s Law

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SambaNova is after the same title, and clearly Google has it's eye on some awfully big neural networks , too. As we reminded you last year, what you call a technology process node has absolutely no relation to the size of any part of the transistors it constructs. What's more, you can now link up to 192 of these computers together.

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